Making a resource guide as a class project can be a great way for students to practice information gathering, phone skills, and word-processing skills.
Making a Local Medical Resource Guide
Make a medical resource guide with your ESL class for your local area. We will publish your guide on our site. Second-language speakers in your area can take advantage of the information in the guide.
Making a resource guide as a class project can be a great way for students to practice information gathering, phone skills, and word-processing skills.
Students discuss as a class what information would be useful to know when selecting a doctor or clinic in their area. Teacher makes of list of these topics (address, bus access, hours open, method of payment, web site, etc.)
Students write questions to obtain the above information. Teacher (or class) corrects grammar.
Students practice asking questions with their classmates.
Using their own experience, the yellow pages, and asking friends and families, students make a list of medical resources (clinics, hospitals, dentists, doctors, herbalists, etc.) to include in the guide.
Working in groups, students gather and compile information on several resources.
Students learn how to make word-processing tables, and practice filling in the tables with the information which they've gathered.
Using the html file for the "Seattle Resource guide" as a template, the teacher can construct an html file with the class information. Send this html file to Aviva Furman and see it published on this web site.