Unit 1: People and Places


Vocabulary

For this unit’s activity, go over any unfamiliar vocabulary from the online selection after students have first tried to complete the Web activity on their own.

Online Notes

Note: If an online tutorial is needed, here are some useful online resources.
Beginners Central
http://northernwebs.com/bc/

World Wide Web Notebook
http://sln.fi.edu/primer/setup.html

Netiquette Home Page
http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/netiquette.html

Before beginning the online activity, introduce and orient students to the features of this website. Have students who are experienced with computers help others who are less experienced.

Be sure you have read all activity directions and objectives with students.

Circulate in the classroom to help students navigate the website, select preferences, and print.

Before working on the online activity, generate a discussion about any personal experiences students may have had with customs. Has anyone had a problem bringing goods into a country? Did passing through customs create any feelings of nervousness? Were customs officials polite?

Have students complete the Web activity. Let them know that it is not necessary that they understand every word in the online text in order to answer the three questions.

Follow up the online activity with the culminating activity: Putting It Together.

Wrap Up

Wrap up the online activity by going over the student answers (1. Bakery items, 2. An import permit, 3. The U.S. Department of Agriculture). Then go over any unfamiliar vocabulary.

Putting It Together

Have students role-play a customs scene. One student will play an inspector, and the other a traveler. Ask students to generate a list of items that people might want to bring into a country, then write the list on the board. Pair off the students and ask each pair to choose an item from the list on which to base their role-play dialogue.

Encourage students to explore the responses to other Frequently Asked Questions at the U. S. Customs website. They may incorporate some of this information in their role-plays.

Email notes

This website gives you and your students a link to ePALS, a classroom-to-classroom e-mail exchange service. To use ePALS, you need to register your class; this includes creating a short "profile" of the class (including the size of your class, the grade level, subjects studied, and class projects). Once your class is registered, you will receive individual e-mail accounts for your students. You will be asked to create screen names for your students. (For security reasons, you may not want to use the students' real names in their screen names.)

Note: When you create the profile for your class, be sure to include the title and level of the textbook you are using in the class. This makes it easier for other teachers using the same textbook to find you when searching for an e-mail partner.

To find a class to partner with, search the ePALS database. (You can include the title of the textbook as part of your search.) Once you have found a class you feel is suitable, contact the teacher of that class and propose starting an e-mail exchange. Then you can pair up students in each class as e-mail pen pals.

You have the option of monitoring your student's e-mail; you may want to do this so you can grade your students' written work.

The ePALS site has more details on registration and the e-mail exchange.

Click here to go to ePALS.

Note: Here is a helpful beginner’s site to explain the basics of e-mail.
A Beginner’s Guide to Effective E-mail http://www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html
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