TUVALU

Task 1: Pair work (A-B)
Suppose you visited Tuvalu with your friend last January. Before you travelled, you needed to get some information.
a. Go to www.tuvaluislands.com and click on Tuvalu Travel Information, find out the following data. To maximize your time, just copy and paste on this document

Student A
· How to get to the island (direct flight from your country? Airline?)
· Name of International Airport (far from the city?)
· Visa?
Student B
· Accommodation (which hotel? Prices?)
· Entertainment-Activities (what can you do on the island?)
· Souvenirs (what can you buy?)
· Amount of money you need to take, local currency

b. Pair work. Written work.
Click on Photo Album and choose one picture.
· Copy it and paste it in a new Word document.
· Below the picture, write an email to your teacher (about 8 lines) describing your vacations in Tuvalu.
Use the information in a. above.
· Send your email to your teacher: emacoll@gmail.com
Subject: Our vacations in Tuvalu.

Class 4
Task 2: Pair work
Go to www.tuvalu.com and click on legends

a. Read this legend: The man who married a dolphin

Glossary
Ashore: near the coast
Coconut: coco
Full moon: luna llena
Dive: zambullirse
Farewell: good-bye

b. After reading the legend twice, fill in the blanks with the correct tense of the verbs in brackets

While the young man (work) ________________ in his plantation one morning, he (see) ______________ that some coconut leaves were broken or cut. He decided to find out what was happening in his plantation so one night, during full moon, he (hide) ___________________ behind a tree when he (hear) __________ voices of young women and men.
While they (talk) ______________ loudly and (sing) _______________ happily, the young man (come) _____________ out of the tree and (shout) _______________ to them because they (cut) _____________ the leaves of the trees.
When the group (see) ____________ the young man, they (start) ____________ running towards the sea. As they (go) _____________ into the sea, they (turn) _________ into dolphins!!

c. Pair work: Interact with your partner
· Did you like the legend?
· Would you change the end? Why?
· Do you know of any Latin American legends?