Student Worksheet
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?
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?
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?
1. Where did the Camello get its name?
2. Find out how many Cuban pesos are in a dollar.
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.
Teacher Lesson Plan
by Valerie Hecht
Level: First year and above
Objective(s): Students will list and briefly describe some modes
of public transportation in Cuba
Materials: Computer with access to the World Wide Web or Printout
of recipes, Student worksheet
Grading: I use a rubric for each of the the sections (pre-reading,
reading, post-reading) and give them from 1-5 points for each
section. I also give a separate grade for the extension activity
and prepare a rubric for each of those activities.
Procedure:
Pre-reading activities: (can be done as an oral brainstorming
activity with the whole class or in pairs as well as individually
on the worksheet)
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?
Reading activities:
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: (students do one or more, as
you see fit)
1. Where did the Camello get its name?
2. Find out how many Cuban pesos are in a dollar.
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.
For questions or comments, write to Lewis Johnson at clta@clta.net.