Informative Outline

Student Name: Ingrid

Date: 07/27/2014
Topic: Overseas educational travel
Title: Overseas Educational Travel Can Benefit Our Children
Audience Profile: teenagers, their parents & teachers
General Purpose: To Inform my audience that Overseas Educational Travel
can benefit our children.
Specific Purpose: To Inform my audience about several advantages of letting
our children take part in the Overseas Educational Travel.
Thesis: Overseas Educational Travel can benefit our children
Introduction: I will ask my audience a few questions, such as What are we
doing in this summer? (I will wait a second for audience to respond.) We are
learning abroad, right?
It is the thing that we are doing now and I think I can benefit from it, so I want to
talk about it.
I think we will benefit from learning abroad.
Transition Sentence--- Quote a motto Joel Cody once said: Traveling and
seeing the world can have a profound impact on a young persons life,

1. Our children will know more about the outside world.
a. Bright Side (I will show some pictures of our trip to New York,
Boston.)
i. Learning a new culture
ii. Meeting new people
iii. Learning new technology
iv. Seeing different places
b. Dark Side
i. Discrimination
ii. High costs
iii. Disease
iv. Homesickness
Transition Sentence---Also, as is known to all, the language environment will
influence the learning of a language. So

2. It can help to create a foreign language learning environment for
children, especially to practice English.
a. Communicate with those from another culture (Stories from the
book)
i. Douglass in Learning To Read and Write
ii. Tan in Mother Tongue
b. Immersion
i. Listening
ii. Repeating/Practicing
Transition Sentence

3. It can help children grow up and adapt to new environments better.
a. Cultural Awareness
i. Learn how to prevent culture shock
ii. Learn social norms to prevent mistakes
b. They will be better prepared for the future.
i. Independence
ii. Global experience
Transition

Conclusion Although there must be some disadvantages of learning abroad,
such experiences have a huge impact on a childs life by expanding their
horizons and changing the way they see the world. Most of the students return
from their time abroad with a much larger and in-depth understanding of the
world and its many cultures. During their experience, they are able to grow as
individuals and receive a global education that is increasingly more important
in the connected, yet flat world of today.









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