STEP-BY-STEP PROJECTS TEACHER’S NOTES 1

UNITS 3&4 Record an audio tour

This project links to Unit 4 (What’s going on?).

Overview Step 1 Choose a place for your tour

In this project, students prepare an audio tour of a place. ■ Divide the class into groups of four to five students.
Groups choose a location, think of interesting facts Read through the first step together and check that
about it, and prepare a script in which they describe the students understand what they need to do. Each
place. Then they record themselves reading the script. group is going to make a list of possible places for
Finally, they exchange audio tours with other groups in their audio tours. Then they agree on which place to
the class. use and make a list of things to include in the tour.
Note: To complete this project, students need Remind them to try to do their planning in English.
access to a voice recorder and a microphone. Many Refer them to the sample phrases.
students will already have these on their cell phones When they’re ready, invite the different groups to
or personal music players. You can also encourage tell the class which places they’ve chosen for their
them to bring headphones. If you don’t have access audio tours.
to recording equipment, students can prepare their Note: You can either ask students to choose places
scripts and then read them out to the rest of the around school or town that are easily accessible,
class. If using this alternative, you will need to adapt such as the school library or a nearby street. Or you
the teacher’s notes accordingly. can tell them to choose a place such as a famous
city or theme park that they won’t actually be able to
In all the Go Beyond projects, students should try to
visit as part of the project. The advantage of the first
complete the tasks in English. Encourage them to speak
option is that students can record the audio in the
in English whenever possible during the preparation
place they’re describing, and when the recording is
steps. Point out the sample phrases for the different
complete, other students can actually go on the tour.
tasks. They can replace the words in italics with their
own ideas.
This project can be spread over several classes to allow Step 2 Write the script
enough preparation time for the different steps.
■ Read through the instructions together. To help
Note: Remind students to be positive about students get started, ask them to help you draw a
everyone’s ideas when they work together in groups. rough map of your school on the board. Ask them to
imagine they’re going to take someone on a tour of
the school. Ask Where would you start? Where would
Introduction you go first? What would you definitely include on the
■ Ask the class to imagine that they are going to visit tour?
New York, London, or Rio de Janeiro for the first time. The students then plan their own tours. Point out that
Ask What would you take with you? Make a list on they have to divide their tours into sections and that
the board that includes items of clothing, money, a each student or pair of students is responsible for
passport, a guidebook, and a map. Ask Why would preparing a section of the tour. Allow time for them to
they be useful? (Answer: To help the students decide do some research in order to write a description and
where to go and what to see.) Write audio guide on include some interesting information.
the board and ask the class to tell you what an audio
guide is.
■ Give students copies of the project pages and read
through the questions at the top of the first page.
Have students work in pairs to answer the questions.
Invite some pairs to share their answers with the
rest of the class. Students then read the Introduction
text to check or find the answers to the questions.
Help with any comprehension problems, making sure
students understand the words in bold.
If any students ask you the name of the round object
at the top of the photo, tell them it’s a microphone
shield. It helps stop the “popping” sound when
someone speaks into a microphone.
■ Explain that groups are going to record their own
audio tours.

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STEP-BY-STEP PROJECTS TEACHER’S NOTES
UNITS 3&4 Record an audio tour
Step 3 Record (or read) your audio tour
■ When the groups have written their scripts, they
can record them. If they are describing a place at or
around school, then it would be good to record the
audio in the actual place. This will be possible if the
students have voice recorders on their cell phones
or on other personal audio devices. Alternatively, ask
them to record the audio in the classroom, imagining
they are in the actual place (encourage them to
include any suitable sound effects that might be
heard there).
Note: If you don’t have access to recording
equipment, students should practice reading their
scripts aloud.
Read through the instructions together and point out
that students can add sound effects to their tours.
They should also include a general welcome message
at the beginning of the recording. When they’re ready,
groups can record their scripts. Make sure that every
student in each group is involved in the recording.
If there are students who don’t want their voices to
be recorded, they can be in charge of the recording
equipment.
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Step 4 Go on an audio tour
■ In the next part of the project, groups take turns
presenting their tours to the rest of the class. Then
they exchange their audio tours with another group
and listen to each other’s tours. If students can
actually do the tours on campus while they listen,
then encourage them to do so. The idea is that the
different groups manage to listen to all the tours,
although this may depend on the size of your class.
Step 5: Give feedback
■ When all the tours have been completed,
ask students to answer the questions on the
project page:
Which tours have …
■ interesting places to visit?
■ some unusual facts?
■ good commentary?
Which tour is your favorite? Why?
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