Travel and Tourism English Mid-term Exam, Autumn 2010

     You have already divided yourselves into teams. You and your team have already selected a travel destination of interest to you this year. Each team is supposed to be a travel agency. Over the course of this year, you and your “travel agency” will design a vacation travel package to the place your team has selected.

     By now, every team (“travel agency”) should have already started a blog to represent your “travel agency’s” web site. Of course, everything must be in English. This is, after all, a course in tourism English. You’re learning it by doing it.

      For your mid-term exam, you and your “travel agency” will write an itinerary for your vacation travel package. The itinerary must tell each place the your tourists will go during the vacation, when they will leave, when they will arrive, a general description of what there is to see or do at each place, and how much each will cost. This information must come from reliable sources on the Internet.

     Your mid-term exam project also must include travel warnings and travel advisories that you find on official sites on the Internet.

     You must contact team leaders in other classes (Advertising and Marketing, and News English) in order to advertise and publicize your travel service. The Advertising and Marketing class will help you with your advertisements. The News English class has set up several on-line “newspapers.” They will publish your advertisements and write articles about your travel vacations.

     Post your work on your team’s (“travel agency’s”) blog (web site). Your mid-term exam grade will depend on how well you have done your assignment when I see it in your blog.