Preparing a tourist presentation

This year like previous ones (see the post from last year), I asked my students to prepare a tourist presentation for their final project. It is very important to develop the skills involved with preparing a tourist presentation of a place in English as students could be asked to do so at any moment in their careers ,like for example: working for a Tourist Board or for a promotional tourist company, tour operator, etc. As a guidance, I gave students some basic instructions, which I have included below, and I chose Japan as the place they would make their presentation about because it is a long way away from Spain and students don´t know much about it. In this way, their project would give them the chance to get to know Japan a little better and to make an effort to present to others a country which they are not very familiar with.

Japan Assignment Instructions

These are two of the best final projects. You can also see them in our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/Englishfortourism:

I want to thank Juan José Murillo and Francisco Antonio Cañizares for their work as well as the rest of my students who also did a great job.

Niagara Water Park Ambulu Jember

Niagara Water Park Ambulu Jember

Udara sejuk dan dingin menyapa tubuh ketika memasuki dusun langan Desa Ambuluh jember, Hawa segar dengan tiupan angin membuat hati tenang ketika di pucak gunung ini wahana Air terdapat dengan 3 jenis kolam yaitu kolam untuk anak-anak dengan kedalaman 50 cm, untuk remaja dengan kedalaman 70 cm dan untuk dewasa dengan kedalaman 160 .Bagi wisatawan yang berkunjung menuju ke pantai Watu ulo tidak lengkap jika tidak menghampiri terlebih dahulu mendatangi tempat wisata air ini dengan keindahan hutan Jati serta dinginnya tiupan angin yang senyegarkan pikiran , meskipun baru di buka tanggal 19 september 2009 sudah memiliki fasilitas cafe, kolam renang bagi anak-anak dan dewasa serta kolam pemamcingan

Fasilitas

Cafetaria
Lahan Parkir Yang luas
Water park
kolam pemancingan

rote perjalanan
mangli - Ambulu dengan jarak tempuh 18 Km sampai di perempatan lampu merah ke arah kiri menuju kota blater dengan jarak tempuh 1 Km sampai terdapat pertigaan menuju ke kiri 500 meter

Tiket Masuk
tiket masuk senilai Rp. 10.000

The Globe & Mail: Behind The Veil

Canada's The Globe and Mail provides a rare insight into the lives of Afghan women through a week-long multi-media series, Behind the Veil.

In these series, 10 representative Afghan women in the Kandahar area speak about key issues in their lives. Aided by an interpreter, specific questions were asked from each of the women. The Globe & Mail is well-known for its edgy multimedia, having featured equally interesting and extremely well produced multimedia pieces before.

I haven't got the time to view this except for a few minutes, but I intend to return to it once I'm back from Bhutan.

On The Road: Bhutan (Bangkok Report #2)

Chinatown (Bangkok)-Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights Reserved
The 8 participants of my Bhutan: Land of the Druk Yul photo expedition are currently in Bangkok, and are collectively relieved to hear that yesterday's earthquake hasn't disrupted our plans, and having spoken to our agent in Thimpu, all indications are that its damage was restricted to the Mongar area in south-eastern Bhutan.

It'll be a short sleep for most of us here in Bangkok as we will be making our way to the airport for a check-in at 4:30 am. We should be in Pao airport at 9:00 am, and it'll be kuzuzangbo-la!!!

On The Road: Bhutan (Bangkok Report)

The late afternoon in Bangkok saw Graham Ware, Kayla Keenan and I spending a couple of hours in Bangkok's Chinatown district, "de-rusting' our shutter fingers with some street photography.

While having dinner with some of the photo-expedition's members at The Irish Pub on Silom, news of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake in Bhutan reached me. The AP report said that the earthquake killed at least 11 people, damaging an ancient monastery and forcing hundreds to flee, with at least 15 people injured.

The afternoon earthquake was centered in Monggar, a little-populated eastern region of the tiny nation of Bhutan, close to Gauhati in Assam, India. The AP also reports that most buildings in that region are small farmhouses built from mud and stone.

At this time, all signals are green for the photo-expedition to proceed as planned. The quake-hit region is far enough from our routing that it shouldn't have any effect, however it may have caused landslides in the main road leading to Bumthang, which is our ultimate destination.

Further information will be obtained in the morning from our agent in Thimpu.