Activity 1
New Zealand is a pretty lovely place to live, isn’t it? Apparently, New Zealand (NZ) is also a pretty lovely place to visit. In 2017 approximately 2-3 million people came to visit NZ as tourists. Some of them chose to come in the middle of our summer, while others braved it and came in the middle of winter! When do you think is the best time of year (season) to visit NZ?
If you would like some help making a decision, feel free to read the Go New Zealand website. It has lots of information about the seasons in NZ!
I, personally, encourage my friends and family from overseas to come and visit NZ in early spring. The weather is usually warm and dry and the tourist attractions, beaches and holiday spots are less busy than they are in the middle of summer.
On your blog, tell us what time of year you think is best for tourists to come and visit. Be sure to share at least three things that tourists could do while they were here in NZ.
If tourists like the cold and want for example to go skiing or snowboarding then winter is the perfect time of the year or season rather. Or if other tourists want to go to the beach, to catch fish or just to lay down in the sun and summer would be best for them. Usually, tourists like the sun, in my point of view because there are a lot of stuff they can do in summer like surfing, fishing, sailing, maybe even swimming.
Activity 2
People in New Zealand love spending time outdoors. Unfortunately, the sun is very powerful and the rates of skin cancer are incredibly high in New Zealand. In fact, they are higher than anywhere else in the entire world! To protect ourselves against skin cancer, we need to be careful about how much time we spend in the sun. We have to be ‘Sunsmart.’
On your blog, list five different things that we can do to protect ourselves from the sun this summer!
1. Always wear sunscreen even when the sun is not out and make sure to apply it properly.
2. Stay hydrated, drink a lot of water.
3. Wear a hat.
4. Protect yourself with clothes.
5. Of course, this is probably what people most do, wearing sunglasses to protect yourself from UV Rays.
Activity 3
While it can get hot in New Zealand, especially in the middle of summer, it gets even hotter in places like Dallol (Ethiopia), Dasht-e Loot (Iran), Tirat Zvi (Israel), Kabili (Tunisia) and Bandar-e Mahshahr (Iran).
The hottest temperature on record in each place is: Dallol: 41oC; Dasht-e Loot: 71oC; Tirat Zvi: 54oC; Kabili: 55oC; Bandar-e Mahshahr: 51oC. Crazy ‘eh?!
For this activity, you are asked to use this information to create a graph. The graph should have a title along with the names of each city and their hottest recorded temperatures. You can draw the graph by hand or use a computer programme like Google Draw to create your graph. It’s completely up to you!
Here is an example of a graph:
On your blog, post a picture of your graph.
Here is my graph
Hi Skyler,
ReplyDeleteGreat answer to the question about which season tourists should visit NZ. It really depends on what they want to do! Apart from skiing and snowboarding, summer does offer tourists many options of things to do, like surfing, fishing, swimming, boating, hiking. Summer is definitely my favourite time of year, partly because I love doing all those things, but also because Christmas is in summer in NZ and usually we get a big holiday too.
Awesome list of reminders of how to be sunsmart! It is very important, especially during summer.
I see you have done your graph, but it's not viewable on your blog - what did you make it on? Maybe check that the permissions are right on it.
Great work!
From Laura
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