Week 7
Solving Travel Problems
When you're travelling, you're going to hit some snags, you can't plan for everything and ultimately something is going to happen that will upset your holiday. This is about planning for when things go wrong.
Most problems centre around three main areas:
How you find ways to resolve these problems will either make or break the rest of your holiday, but first you need to work out: "What could happen?".
There are lots of websites around that give you the "10 common travel problems and their solutions" or "10 common travel problems and how to deal with them" (click on the hyperlink to read more) or kayak even provides you with an answer to most questions travellers ask, including "I have no friends".
Most problems centre around three main areas:
- financial issues,
- legal and cultural issues or
- problems with ticketing or your baggage.
How you find ways to resolve these problems will either make or break the rest of your holiday, but first you need to work out: "What could happen?".
There are lots of websites around that give you the "10 common travel problems and their solutions" or "10 common travel problems and how to deal with them" (click on the hyperlink to read more) or kayak even provides you with an answer to most questions travellers ask, including "I have no friends".
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Create your own list of 10 travel problems for your travel itinerary and write THREE of them in the padlet below, at your chosen destination. If they could happen anywhere in your trip, just choose a place along your itinerary to post your problem.
What can you do?
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One of the best ways to minimise travel problems is to take out travel insurance. It can provide compensation for lost luggage, and also pay bills for delays due to strikes, hijackings, etc. However, its most important function is to ensure that you can afford hospital and medical care. In countries such as the USA, even a short stay in hospital can leave you and your family in financial trouble.
Get a quote online for your trip away.
Get a quote online for your trip away.
What else can go wrong?
These clips from the ABC's The Checkout run through some of the scams and problems consumers run in to when they are travelling. Watch these for some background on how you could solve a problem when you're travelling or access a resolution when you get home.
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Week 8
Share what you have learned
Reference: https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/inside-out/inside-out-u8/travel-probs-roleplay-stories/
Stage 1- Roleplays
20 minutes
Choose roleplay situations from below and act out the dialogues with your partner(s) until you are asked you to go onto Stage 2.
Stage 2- Anecdotes
20 minutes
Choose one of the situations that you role-played above. Imagine you are one of the people in that situation telling an anecdote about it later to one of your friends. After you have finished, one of your partners will tell the same story, but in an even more exaggerated way. Continue until none of you can exaggerate the story any more.
Do the same with other real or imaginary anecdotes about travelling.
Stage 3- Roundup
10 minutes
Choose one of these scenarios that we will film and create a 3-4 minute "Checkout" style clip for YouTube release to educate people about solving travel problems.
Stage 1- Roleplays
20 minutes
Choose roleplay situations from below and act out the dialogues with your partner(s) until you are asked you to go onto Stage 2.
- You are a member of the cabin crew. The plane has started to taxi along the runway, but one of the passengers is panicking and demanding to get off the plane.
- You have been asked to open your luggage in customs, and it is full of embarrassing or unpleasant things (but nothing actually illegal)
- You want the security guard to pass you through quickly because you are about to miss your flight
- You are an air steward or stewardess. The plane is going to land but you can’t rouse a passenger who has their chair in a reclining position and their blinds down.
- There are no more vegetarian meals on the plane, but you don’t eat meat.
- You want the receptionist to change your room. Give them more and more reasons why your present room is unacceptable until they agree.
Stage 2- Anecdotes
20 minutes
Choose one of the situations that you role-played above. Imagine you are one of the people in that situation telling an anecdote about it later to one of your friends. After you have finished, one of your partners will tell the same story, but in an even more exaggerated way. Continue until none of you can exaggerate the story any more.
Do the same with other real or imaginary anecdotes about travelling.
Stage 3- Roundup
10 minutes
Choose one of these scenarios that we will film and create a 3-4 minute "Checkout" style clip for YouTube release to educate people about solving travel problems.