Descripción de la tarea
A gap year is a is a year before going to college or university and after finishing high school and it is also known as a sabbatical year. During this time students do many different things such as: advanced academic courses, extra-academic courses, language studies, learning a trade, art studies, volunteer work, travel, internships, sports and more.
Gap years are sometimes a way for students to become independent and learn a great deal of responsibility before going to university. In order to know more about gap years, you can watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_UD6WBQBwI
and visit this website:
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In this task, you have to imagine you are a student who has just finished your senior high school year and want to take a break from your
studies before going to University. You must convince your family to let you take a gap year. In order to do that, you must decide what you want to do in your gap year, where you want to go and if you want to go abroad to volunteer, work, study or just travel.
Then, you must prepare a video presentation of your trip to persuade them to let you go. In this video presentation, you must talk about transport, places to visit, eat or sleep, and things and activities to do.
We recommend you prepare your presentation as a video where you include:
- an introduction saying why you’d like to take a gap year and why you think it will be beneficial for your education. For this, use conditionals sentences, especially, first and second type.
- pictures of the places you are going to visit.
- the future tenses (will/going to) to say what you are planning to do there. (where to eat, sleep, activities, etc...)
- Typical products of the area and how they are made. For this, you will need to use the passive voice.
- A conclusion saying why you would regret not taking this gap year.
Remember that you must appear in the video talking about your trip.
You can record your video and send it as a file or you can upload it on YouTube and send the link to your teacher if you have an account. In case you want to send it to your teacher as a file, it should be an mp4 file. If you have a different type of file, please convert it with an online conversor such as: http://www.online-convert.com/es