Field Trip Activities - Greek Program
Depending on the number of shops available to visit and the number of student groups, teachers would have to organise the groups' timing of the visits and the other activities. Since at school G, only one shop was available for Activity 2 (see below), two groups at a time (out of the total of four groups) visited the shop for Activity 2, while the other two groups conducted Activity 1; then the groups exchanged activities.
Activity 1.
For the first activity, the students were required to identify and note shops with Greek writing, and recorded this information in writing on handouts designed in the Unit of Work, such as the name of the shop, the Greek text and the location of the text (eg price tag, poster, sign). When possible, the student groups entered some of the shops while searching for more Greek text; in one music shop students discovered Greek text in magazines, books, and on the covers of music CDs and video tapes.
Activity 2.
This more challenging activity required the students to enter the shop itself, approval for which had been obtained earlier. Each student conducted a brief conversation with a shop assistant in Greek, while their fellow students took notes of the exchange of information. For the sake of brevity, each student was assigned a part of the conversation, such as greetings ('hello'), introductions ('we are students from ...', 'my name is ...'), and request for information. The complexity of the conversation depended on the students' language level, thus students of a more advanced level were expected to engage in more complex conversations and generate their own conversation rather than adhering to a script.