ESCUELA NORMAL SUPERIOR DE SABOY

TRAVELING THROUGH THE PAST

SUBJECT English
GRADE Ninth
TEACHER Ms. Carolina Surez Vargas

Objective(s) students will be able to:
talk about events that happened in the
past in different places of the world.
design a virtual route to show the
places they are going to talk about.

Overview

This practical activity is about past important
places of the world. The idea is to emphasize
in the simple past tense. The idea is the
student to search information about history
of Roman Coliseum and identify at least 5
constructions or landmarks buildings located
in the area. Students have to draw a route for
the interesting sites they have selected and
need to prepare a narration about the route
to tell the story of the past events that
happened in those places. The teacher has to
approve and correct the written papers
before they start preparing the presentation
(speaking part).





Make teams of 4 students
Go to
http://englishenssa.wikispaces.com/
Download the guide with the

Virtual
components
and lesson
activities

instructions for this work.

NOW, CHECK THE WORK TO DO:

Select key words related to the roman
coliseum. Use Bing translator to
translate these words into English,
especially verbs, which must be in past
tense.
Use the advance search of Microsoft
Bing to check obtained results. Use Bing
translator to check result gotten in
Spanish into English.
Locate and mark the location of the 5
landmarks selected, around the
coliseum.
Use the option of direction of Bing
Maps to draw the route.
Check the itinerary comparing the
results en the different views
Use images in search to obtain the
pictures to use.
Draw the route that people have to use
to go to those places considering the use
of time.
Collect information in a summary in
two pages max taking into account that
all the information must be in simple
past tense. And add five images related
to the topic.
Finally, design a flyer and print it. Also,
send it to the teachers email:
carolinasuarez03@mail.com and be
ready for your presentation in the
classroom.

VIRTUAL RESOURCES

Microsoft Bing Search
Microsoft Bing Translator
Microsoft Bing Maps
Microsoft Picture Manager
Microsoft Word o Microsoft Word Apps
Microsoft Publisher

Method of
Evaluation

The quality of the research and the
quantity of the amount of the
information used, based on the variety
and importance of this.
The creativity of the resource to the
design of the route.
The value of the presented information
and its relation to the topic and the unit
of the course.
The presentation of the flyer must be
according to the activity and the use of
the past tense.