Teacher Information

CAPÍTULO 14
Un viaje en tren

• Familiarize students with the practical aspects of traveling on the Spanish rail system

Notes

• This Internet activity reinforces the train vocabulary and expands upon the cultural information on the Spanish rail system presented in this chapter.

• You may want to have students plan train trips to the cities whose Web sites they explored in the Chapter 1 activity, Una exploración de España.

• Advise students to take the AVE (Alta Velocidad Española), a high-speed train, if they want to reach their destinations quickly. Tell them, however, that the AVE is not available for all destinations.

• To find the number of stops that the trains make, students click on Tipo Tren on the train schedule.

• To save time, have students do the currency conversion from pesetas to dollars for all the train fares after they have finished filling in the information for all three train trips at the RENFE site.
  

Expansion

• In Communicative Activity B, ¿A qué hora? on page 393 of the textbook, students play the role of a RENFE agent or train travelers. Have them use the real schedule and fare information they obtained in this Internet activity for the communicative activity. It will make the activity more meaningful and more fun.