Let’s start knowing a little bit more about the city that we are going to visit in this project. Our first stop in Washington is going to be The White House. Visitors from around the world come to Washington DC to tour the White House, the home and office of the U.S. President.

It was built between 1792 and 1800, the White House is one of the oldest public buildings in the nation's capital and it serves as a museum of American history.

At the end of the session,you will have:

• been introduced to Washington, the capital city of the United States of America. 
• known all the outcomes you have to produce in this project.
• started thinking about which five things you are going to include in the video about the prediction of the future in 2050.

Watch the Washington Travel Guide and taste some of the events and places Washington offers to the tourists.

You will probably have seen most of them in a lot of films. If you need extra help, you can turn on subtitles. Which place would you like to visit first? Which one has impressed you the most? 

After having watched the video, try to answer the following questions orally:

• Do you know any other famous places in Washington? Do you know the name of the five different neighbourhoods in New York?
• Have you ever been to Washington DC? And to any other American cities in the United States?
• If so, do you remember any of the monuments or places you visited?
• Do you remember any film shot in Washington DC? Is it in the list of films shot in Washington DC?
• Do you recommend visiting any of these places? Why? Why not?

If you want to know more details about the capital city of the United States, watch the following video:

As you could see, this is a good resource to see places and hear sounds about the city we are going to work on along this project. Which one has surprised you the most? Is there anything that you already knew about this city? Have you chosen your favourite place in Washington yet?

You can answer and summarize these three questions in a short monologue and you can share it with your classmate or with the rest of the class.

As you are going to see in a few moments, The White House will be the first place you should include on a Google Site map. Don't forget about it! Meanwhile, visit its official website and explore all the things you can visit in one of the most famous places in the world.

One of the most famous films shot in Washington DC and in the White House is ''Olympus has fallen''. Have you watched this film before? Watch the trailer and try to identify some of the most distinctive places of this city.

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At the end of this project, you will have produced the following outcomes:

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Task: Each project has a completely different task, with different steps to complete it. In Washington, you have to produce a video with five predictions for the future in 2050: places you will have visited, cities you will have been to, people you will have met, etc. and spread it through Twitter. All the steps within this task will be identified thanks to their colour, orange.

Challenge: Along the different projects, there is a challenge which is common to all the projects, with a Google Site, where you have to search for certain information of the different English-speaking cities you are going to visit.

The different activities are also going to be distributed in different steps and you are going to have some help to look for and select the information for the collaborative challenge. This is designed to be done in groups of 2/3 students. All the activities within this challenge will be identified thanks to their colour, green. The 'Rubric for assessing the design of a digital site' will be used to evaluate your site.

If you need extra help with how to manage a site, take a look at this tutorial.

Learning Diary: You have to use a blog (wordpress, blogger, edublogs or others), as your learning diary. You will publish the different reflections on the activities you will find throughout the project, the videos of the conversations with your classmates, the reflections on the daily work, all the different tasks, the link to your Google Site challenge, and all the other activities that you will be discovering along the projects. 

All the activities within this task will be identified by their colour, blue.

If you need extra help with how to start a blog, take a look at this link. 

Twitter will be a tool you should use to spread and share your work. Along the project you will be required to publish on Twitter using one (or both) of these hashtags: #taskprediction and #EDIAwashington. After reading the instructions on how to use Twitter, the 'Rubric to assess a Tweet' can help you do a good job on this social network.

If you are new to this network, take a look at the 'New User's FAQs'.

All your work along this unit will be evaluated according to the following rubric. You can use it as a guide and a reference for your work: ''Assessment rubric: Washington'.