Monika Antolin Kelebercová

I would like to share with you the experience I had when trying my lesson plan. I used it on an English lesson with the first-year students of bilingual studies. The lesson plan combines the subjects of English, History, Literature and Art and Culture in a very engaging and practical way through which students can learn a lot about the English-speaking country they are assigned as well as the countries their classmates present. Moreover, they learn a lot about geography and tourist attractions of the place, practice their speaking skills and enhance their creativity and teamwork. I also interconnected the activity with the practise of describing a place, which forms part of the English curriculum.

The objective of the lesson was to create a leaflet that would offer information about an English-speaking country that would serve for potential tourists to learn more about the place they are going to visit and in terms of the rising concept of responsible tourism, they would be better prepared for their journey.

The students were divided into the groups of three / four students, each group receiving one of the following countries: the USA, Canada, the UK: Wales, Scotland, England, Northern Ireland; Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. They represented a travel agency that would focus on organizing and promoting holidays of that particular destination and create an information leaflet / brochure / poster about it, containing the following information:

1)     Contact information of your travel agency and its name

2)     Brief history of the country

3)     The most interesting examples of culture and art

4)     Examples of the most famous literary works and writers

5)     Tourist attractions and places to see

6)     Things to do there

In my instructions for students, I combined possible results of both an in-person and online lesson, therefore students were free to create a leaflet on a paper or online using different platforms, for instance, Canva. I adjust pictures demonstrating my students’ hard work and creativity.