Assignment 8: Writing

Recorrido en Barcelona Centro

Length: 200–400 word document

Paseando en Barcelona, España.

Barcelona is a fantastic city. Sightseeing around Barcelona city centre is an exciting experience that thousands of tourists enjoy every day. Many tourists who don’t know the city might find the experience a bit challenging; however, you will be providing them with directions for visiting the main attractions in the city.

For this assignment, you will pretend you are working for Discover Walks-Barcelona, which is a company dedicated to orienting and guiding tourists. They help visitors to discover the main touristic attractions in the city.

Your work at Discover Walks-Barcelona is to provide visitors with directions for visiting all of the sites listed in the ‘Recorrido en Barcelona Centro’ tour (Figure 1). The tour starts at the Discover Walks-Barcelona offices. From there, tourists will walk or take the subway to all the sites included in the tour list. The directions you will provide to tourists must follow the specific order in the list, from number 1 to 19. The tour ends at the same point where they started—the Discover Walks-Barcelona headquarters.

Link for the Map.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1LSlIGInBzZ5DqB nQcUFdzyGV2A&ll=41.390640578841875%2C2.169295329391403&z=14

The Map

1. Use this map to complete your assignment. You will find all the sites listed in the Recorrido en Barcelona Centro tour on this map.
2. To see a list of the sites on the map, click on the icon located in the upper-left corner of the map.
3. For a better view of the map, click on the fullscreen icon located in the upper-right corner of the map.
4. For more details, you can click on each location, either on the list or directly on the map.
5. You can zoom in and out using the mouse wheel or by clicking on the ‘+’ and ‘–’ icons located in the lower right corner of the screen.

Instructions

1. Start your assignment by reviewing your notes and learning materials in Unit 8. You are expected to include the vocabulary and grammar rules you studied in this and previous units.
2. You will write directions for visitors using complete, grammatically correct sentences in Spanish.
3. The tour starts at the Discover Walks-Barcelona, which is site number 1 on the map/list, and ends at the same site after the tourists have visited all the places specified in the list (site number 19).
4. You will provide directions to tourists in the same order specified in the list.
5. In your directions, you must use all the appropriate location instructions (ubicación) such as a la izquierda, a la derecha, al lado de, hasta, cruzando la calle, and so forth.
6. Directions must include the name of the site that the tourists will visit.
7. Don’t forget to include the number of blocks visitors will have to walk or stations to travel to in order to reach the next point/location.
8. Include whether the tourists will have to walk south, north, east, or west.
9. You are expected to include the name of the streets in your directions. To see the name of the streets on the map, you might need to zoom in the map.
10. Don’t forget to include the order of actions they will have to follow (e.g. Primero, Segundo, antes, después, hasta, etc.).
11. Don’t forget to include the directions corresponding to number 12 and 14 in the list, where tourists have to take the subway to reach the next location.
12. Write as many sentences as you need to provide directions for tourists to visit all the sights included in the list.
13. After completing your work, submit your assignment in this forum using the submission tools below.

Example of directions:

Para ir a la Plaza Catalunya desde nuestras oficinas, primero tienes que caminar una cuadra sobre Carrer de Balmes en dirección sur. Al llegar a la esquina, dobla a la izquierda sobre la calle Ronda de la Universitat. Debes de caminar una cuadra. Cuando llegues a la esquina vas a encontrar la Plaza Catalunya.

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