Medios de Transporte en Cuba
As homework, answer in English to the next questions:
1. Where is Cuba?
2. What type of land form is it?
3. What kinds of public transportation do you expect to see in Cuba?
En clase: reading activities.
Write down in English the next activities and use Moodle to submit them.
1. Visit this website: http://www.cuba-individual.com/s_horario.htm#Infosgen
2. List the types of transportation you see. Stop at Horario de Trenes.
3. What are the four main types of transportation?
4. What is a Camello?
5. How many people can ride on one?
6. What is another name for a bus?
7. How many kinds of taxis are there? What are the differences?
8. Name the two bus companies described. Which company only accepts passengers who pay in dollars?
9. How much does it cost to ride a camion? On what does the price depend?
10. How much more should foreigners expect to pay than Cubans to ride the train?11. Which is faster, the train or la guagua?
12. List the cities you can fly to from La Habana on Cubana airlines.
13. What types of planes does Aerotaxi have?
Post-reading activities:
1. Did you find all the types of transportation you thought you would? What was different?
2. How would you travel if you were to visit Cuba? Why?3. How do you think most Cubans travel? Why?
Extension:
Extension:
1. Where did the Camello get its name?
2. Find out how many Cuban pesos are in a pound.
3. At the same website, click on the Horario de Trenes. Using this as a guide, prepare an audiotape of yourself as the announcer in the train station, announcing arrivals and departures of trains in the Habana train station.
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