Task: my gap year US

Step 1

• you have de­ci­ded that you´d like to spend a year ab­road after your Ab­itur.
• you would feel more com­for­ta­ble if you could do that with one or two fri­ends.
• dis­cuss whe­ther you would pre­fer to:
• work as an au-pair
• work as a vol­un­te­er with child­ren
• work as a vol­un­te­er in a com­mu­ni­ty pro­ject
• work as a vol­un­te­er in an en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­ject
• take notes on  the re­le­vant ar­gu­ments that you nee­ded to de­ci­de on an op­ti­on

Step 2

• you have de­ci­ded on the way you would like to spend your gap year
• dis­cuss with your part­ner(s) what kind of in­for­ma­ti­on you need
  ➥ take notes on the in­for­ma­ti­on that you think you need

Step 3

• se­arch the net for non-com­mer­ci­al or­ga­niza­t­i­ons that offer gap year stays
  ➥ take notes on

• how you se­ar­ched for an or­ga­niza­t­i­on
• the or­ga­niza­t­i­ons
• their con­di­ti­ons for ac­cep­t­ing peop­le
• the coun­tries you can go to

Links you can use:

https://​int​erna​tion​alvo​lunt​eeri​ng.​com  ac­ces­sed 19.04.2017 15.49
http://​afs.​org/   19.04.2017  15.50

http://​col​lege​list​s.​pb­works.​com/​w/​page/​16119457/​Gap%20o​r%20S​ervi​ce%20Y​ear%20P​rogr​ams  (Por­tal)  ac­ces­sed 19.04.2017  15.52

https://​ul­la­dul­la-​h.​schools.​nsw.​gov.​au/​sup­porting-​our-​stu­dents/​ca­re­ers/​gap-​year.​html ac­ces­sed 19.04.2019

http://​col​lege​coun​sell​ing.​com/​Col­le­ge-​Coun­se­ling-​Col­le­ge-​Gap-​Year-​Op­ti­ons.​html ac­ces­sed 19.04.2019 (Liste) ac­ces­sed 19.04.2017 15.57

If you use more/dif­fe­rent ad­dres­ses con­sult the page How to se­arch the net

Step 4

• to be ac­cep­ted you will have to prove that you  have to be open-min­ded towards a dif­fe­rent cul­tu­re and that you are pre­pa­red to learn how to be­ha­ve in a cul­tu­ral­ly ac­cep­ta­ble way
• watch the fol­lo­wing two links to get an idea of what it means to live in a dif­fe­rent cul­tu­re:
• https://​www.​ski​llsy​oune​ed.​com/​ips/​int​ercu​ltur​al-​com​muni​cati​on.​html  ac­ces­sed 19.04.2017   15.25 
• http://​www.​eng​lish​andc​ultu​re.​com/​blog/​bid/​71208/​Your-​Int​ercu​ltur​al-​Com​muni​cati​on-​Skills-​5-​Ways-​to-​Im­pro­ve  ac­ces­sed 19.04.2017  15.27
• Take notes
• Con­sider what you have lear­ned about mee­ting peop­le from other cul­tu­res (this year and last year)
• Collect ideas which as­pects of li­ving to­ge­ther might be dif­fe­rent in the coun­try of your choice (e.g. is small talk im­portant, how should you dress….)
• Take notes

Step 5a

Me­dia­ti­on:

Read blogs of Ger­man vol­un­te­ers who are in or went to the coun­try you have cho­sen. You write an e-mail to your Ame­ri­can fri­end who is also plan­ning a gap year and tell him or her about what you have lear­ned from the blogs (dos and don´ts, things that can go wrong)

Step 6

You want to pre­sent the in­for­ma­ti­on on “your’” coun­try to the others.
You have three op­ti­ons to do this:

• You give a pre­sen­ta­ti­on (take turns in your team) and film it on your mo­bi­le
• You make a clip on your mo­bi­le
• You make a clip on a ta­blet (use the app ex­plain ever­y­thing)

You pre­pa­re the pre­sen­ta­ti­on as a group.
Each of you has to pre­sent (i.e. speak) a part.
De­ci­de who is pre­sen­ting which part.

Con­tent:

• coun­try
• po­li­ti­cal (and pos­si­bly re­li­gious) si­tua­ti­on
• eth­nic groups  - po­ten­ti­al bias
• so­ci­al si­tua­ti­on
• gen­der si­tua­ti­on
• rules for com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on (ver­bal and non-ver­bal)
• dress code
• rules for li­ving in a fa­mi­ly
• most im­portant: what are your ideas and plans for a suc­cess­ful stay

Task: my gap year US: Her­un­ter­la­den [docx][24 KB]

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