Each student must plan a trip to Paris and another town in France. They go online to research plane tickets, accommodations and other details necessary for their trip.
As with any trip, the students have a budget they must stay within. When planning their five-day itinerary, they need to take into account the realities of time lost during intercontinental travel.
The students have gone online to French real estate and vacation sites to research vacation house rentals that meet the needs of their family. They had to pick a house, write a letter to the owner to inquire about availability, and a letter to their parent(s) telling them why they selected the house they did and specifically how it met their families’ needs. In hope of doing a house swap (to save money on the rental), students gave virtual tours of their own houses as well.
