Learning activity 1 / Actividad de aprendizaje 1

Evidence: Vacations around the world / Evidencia: Vacaciones alrededor

del mundo

In this evidence you are going to read an article about the way people around
the world spend their vacations. Then you have to do a description about the
way people spend their vacations in your country and answer the questions. /
En esta evidencia usted va a leer un texto acerca de cómo pasan las personas
sus vacaciones alrededor del mundo. Luego debe hacer una descripción sobre
cómo son las vacaciones en su país y responder las preguntas.

A. Read this article about vacations around the world. / Lea este artículo sobre
vacaciones alrededor del mundo.

Vacations around the world

Vacation time is a very important part in the life of all people in the world.
People from different cultures spend their vacations in different ways. The
number of vacation days ranges from 10 to 30, being the Europeans such as
Germans, French and Swede the luckiest for having 30 days of vacations; the
Latin American countries with a big number of vacation days are Brazil,
Panama and Peru with 25 days. The unluckiest country is China having just 10
days and being vacations not mandatory. Taking into account this aspect,
people can decide what to do and how to enjoy their vacations. Let’s see what
people from Germany, Brazil and China say about their future vacations.

What are you going to do in your next vacations?

Lauren Freudberger (Germany)

I want to visit some friends all along
Europe. First, I’m going to France to
visit my friend Jan Pierre in Lion, I’m
staying for a couple of weeks there.
Then I would like to go to Italy to visit
my cousin Florentina, I’m going to
Venice with her. Finally, I want to go
to England to spend one week with Fuente: SENA
my family that live there.

Pablo Molina (Brazil)

Well I’m planning to go to Rio and
spend a week there, I have my
girlfriend there and we are meeting
the first week. Then I want to know
Colombia. I haven’t been there and
my friend told me is a great
destination. Finally I am staying
home and rest for the last week
before starting my work again. Fuente: SENA

Wangshenbing (China)
In general, I don’t have much time to
travel, I want to sleep late, I’m going
to eat out with my family, and I’m
going to buy some things that I need
for my house.

Fuente: SENA

B. Based on the previous article, answer the following questions: / Basado en

el artículo anterior, responda las siguientes preguntas:

1. Which aspects do you think play an important role in deciding what to do

on vacations?

The aspects that play an important role are: recreational places such as
oceans, seas, picnics, aquatic parks, but that depends on the plan you
want to have natural places such as natural parks, zoos, and paradisiacal
landscapes, additional places like hotels cozy, restaurant and typical
places visited site.

2. What do people like to do the most on their vacations?

Being able to get out of the routine of their jobs and their day, spend time
with family, eat, see different places and, most importantly, be able to
rest.

3. Which plan do you like the most and why?

I like to go to natural places like parks, it helps me to rest a bit and allows
me to breathe pure air, to think and to spend a while away from the noise of the
cars.

C. Write a short paragraph about how is the vacation time in your country.
 Include information such as the typical number of days a person gets for
vacations, the most common activities people do, and the famous places
people visit. / Escriba un párrafo corto acerca de cómo son las vacaciones
en su país. Incluya información como el número típico de días que una
persona tiene para vacaciones, las actividades más comunes que las
personas hacen, y los sitios famosos que la gente visita.

The holidays in my country are very diverse since there are many tourist places.
Bogota is one of the most visited tourist places, because here are typical places
that foreign people love to visit, we have the gold museum, the tequendama
jump, the astronomical observatory, the planetarium, among others, in Bogota
there are no luagres like swimming pools or water activities, but if you have a
variety of historical buildings that have been preserved throughout the history of
Bogota, for example the vase of the cry of independence is housed, in that
same place we find typical food like ajiaco, the white manjar, among others, the
people who visit us usually stay between 20 and 30 days, since there are many
places to visit and food to meet.