A half-day tour of Naples

PART I. Planning an itinerary: Make your proposals by answering the questions!
1) Tour sites: Where could you take the tour group? What could they do there? What surprises could you organize for them?
2) Scheduling: What time could you meet, and where? How long would you plan to stay? What will happen if it rains?
3) Purpose: What are your reasons for arranging the tour? What is your objective? Do you want to educate them? Help them to appreciate something about Naples? What?
4) Human Resources: How many people would you need to work for your tour? Musicians? Actors? Experts?
5) Expenses: How much would it cost you to take people to those places? How much would you like to charge the tourists, if anything? How much money would you make in a half-day?

PART II. Comparing your tour to other existing tours.
http://www.arthurschwartz.com/guide/one-day-walking-tour-of-naples.html
http://www.contexttravel.com/city/naples/all-walking-tours
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/naples/0058010008.html

Use comparatives to compare your tour to the tours described in the links above. Is yours more or less expensive? Which do you think would be more interesting? What other considerations do you have?

Click on 'comments' to post your answers to Part I and II.

A Prince and a Saint

 Dear Students,
This week, you have several tasks to do!
In class today, half of you read about Raimondo di Sangro (Prince of San Severo), and the other half read about San Gennaro. You should make sure to note any new vocabulary words, and write a simple summary of the text in your notebook Now, you must do a couple of things:
1) find the Italian translation of the text you received in class, and check for errors in the original and in the translation. Do the texts match? Is the original information correct, or is the translation wrong? Take notes in your notebook so we can discuss these errors in class next week.
2) read the text that you did NOT receive in class, note down any new vocabulary words, and then write a short summary here on the blog (4-5 SIMPLE sentences).

Click below to go to the webpages:

Raimondo di Sangro - Prince of Sansevero

San Gennaro

(note: after going to the webpage, to see the original text in Italian, click on the Italian flag at the top right-hand corner of the page).

What we did before Easter

We read about: Parthenope - click on the word to see the text and then click on the Italian flag (in the upper right-hand corner to find the original text.  Your job will be to choose one of the other subjects on the same webpage called

Mythical and legendary origins of the city

 and then write a short summary about it here.