Your parents want to spend the holidays in a warm sunny place instead of dealing with another cold winter in Canada. They are considering moving permanently but want your input on where to vacation. You need to create a presentation convincing them to visit a Spanish-speaking country where you will stay in the city of your choice, with a detailed itinerary of planned activities over 2-3 weeks that will appeal to all family members.

1. Leaving On A Jet Plane
Your parents have decided that they’re sick of the Great White North. Waking up in the
dark? Not OK. That snowpocalypse in September last year? Definitely not OK. They want to
spend Christmas in the hot sun. They want to be in a place where it’s daylight for more than 7
hours in a row. In fact, they might even stay there. The question is: where is there?
Your brother wants to go to Cambodia, and spend 2 weeks living like a Buddhist monk at
Angkor Wat. Your sister’s gotten way too invested in Gilmore Girls and wants to spend 2 weeks
in Massachusetts exploring “Stars Hollow”. (She hasn’t quite grasped the point of a warm
holiday. Or that the Gilmores are fictional)
In order to save your vacation (and your sanity) you need to come up with a presentation
to convince your parents that your vacation destination is the best plan. (Therefore this
assignment will be completed in English, not in Spanish).
Where Will You Be Going?
Since you’re attempting to learn Spanish in school, you might as well put all of that hard
work to good use. So the country will have to have Spanish as an official language… but that’s
really your only restriction.
Where Will You Be Staying?
What city will you be staying in? Are you going to rent a hotel room? Make friends and
couch surf? Air BnB? Camping? Rent an apartment? Cardboard box?
What’s The Itinerary?
If you’re going to spend 2-3 weeks travelling abroad, you need to have some sort of
itinerary (or schedule) of what you’re going to do. For each event that you plan, you need to
provide a description for your parents.

2. 5 4 3 2 1
Preparation Student is
confident, well
prepared, and
speaks
professionally
Student is well
prepared and
speaks
appropriately
Student is
prepared
Student is
prepared, but
the presentation
takes away from
their plan
Student is
under -
prepared
Soundness
of Plan
Plan is logical,
well thought out,
and cost-effective
Plan is well
thought out, and
fairly cost-
effective
Plan has
been thought
through
Plan is fairly
logical, but not
all alternatives
have been
covered
Plan is
illogical
Diverse
Itinerary
All family
interests have
been taken into
account.Fun will
be had
Many family
interests have
been taken into
account.Fun will
be had.
Some family
interests
have been
taken into
account.Fun
will be had.
Few family
interests have
been taken into
account.Fun is
a possibility.
This is clearly
a vacation
designed for
the student.
Only one
person will
have fun on
this trip.