ORAL PRESENTATIONS

ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES AND THEIR CULTURES

Introduction

You will go through an interesting exploration of countries, cultures, and people  from around the world. The internet trip you are about to start will show you different aspects of some English speaking countries.

Your group will be assigned one of the five countries listed below.

South Africa         Jamaica         Australia          New Zealand             Canada

The Task
 

Your group will create a digital presentation using all the information that you have accumulated throughout your Internet "trip," and prepare an oral presentation describing your discoveries.

 The Process     

These are the steps that you have to follow so as to complete the activity successfully.

 
A. Search for the information below using the resources you will find at the end of the instructions as well as magazines, books, and the net. Don’t forget to copy the sources.

1. Locate your country on a world map using cardinal points (N, S, W, and E).
2. Find the flag of your country.
3.  Find out if there are other languages spoken and give some examples of vocabulary translated into English and Spanish
4. Main geographical features .
5. Information about the area, the population and the density of the country. 
6. Main cities and the most important monuments
7. Economy. Main industries
8. Currency and the equivalence in Euros.
9. Photos of the most typical food and festivities .
10. Bibliography.

B. Organize the material you have gathered and create a power point presentation with 12 or more slides including all the information and pictures, graphics or maps you need.

C. Each group will present their projects to the rest of the class.

Assessment

You will be evaluated according to the different aspects explained to you in class. Remember you have to respect the deadline.

Resources

- General information of the different countries

http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/places/find/

http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

- Festivities Around the World

http://www.topics-mag.com/internatl/holidays/festivals.htm

- Food

http://www.favoritetraditions.com/holidayfoodtraditions.html

http://trifter.com/practical-travel/world-cuisine/the-most-popular-dishes-from-around-the-world/

- World-currency

http://kids.yahoo.com/reference/world-factbook/currency

http://www.banknotes.com/images.htm

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769539.html

- Area and population of countries

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004379.html

- Density of population

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/popn1.html