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Example Webquest 3 Welcome To London Webquest

This document outlines a web quest activity where students will plan a virtual week-long trip to London. The task involves researching various aspects of the trip in groups such as transportation, accommodations, budget, sights and attractions. Students will then create a PowerPoint presentation to showcase the planned trip. The presentation will be evaluated based on criteria such as content, organization, sources, and workload distribution among group members. The goal of the activity is for students to gain knowledge about planning international travel and improve their English language skills.

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Example Webquest 3 Welcome To London Webquest

This document outlines a web quest activity where students will plan a virtual week-long trip to London. The task involves researching various aspects of the trip in groups such as transportation, accommodations, budget, sights and attractions. Students will then create a PowerPoint presentation to showcase the planned trip. The presentation will be evaluated based on criteria such as content, organization, sources, and workload distribution among group members. The goal of the activity is for students to gain knowledge about planning international travel and improve their English language skills.

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Welcome to London!

Web quest

•Introduction
•Task
•Process
•Resources
•Evaluation
•Conclusion
•Credits
London is one the most exciting and cosmopolitan
cities in the world. It has the greatest concentration of
major attractions in Britain and boasts four World
Heritage Sites. There's nowhere else in the world
where you can see so much for so little. Choose from
the classic British Airways London Eye to museums
and galleries, or head outdoors to one of London's
many parks. You will play the role of a travel agent
and your main objective will be to design a virtual trip
to London. The cheapest and the most exciting trip
will obtain the prize. SO, BE PREPARED TO ENJOY
AN UNFORGETABLE TRIP!!
TASK

Your task will consist on planning a week trip to London . You


will work on groups of four and each student will be in charge of
finding out some of the aspects of the organization of the trip,
such as how to get there, accommodation, the amount of money
you will need, weather forecast,places to eat, different sights
etc. The project will be display in a power point presentation.
Process

Step 1 : you will assigned to a group by the teacher.

Step 2: Previous knowledge:

Quiz: you will find the following quiz so you may test your
knowledge about the city of London:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/countries/london.htm

Identification of different sights and monuments exiting in London:


http://www.aveiwoncities.com/london/londonattractions.htm
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=AKvUqwXBgfU - &lid=DV+-+Xtrem
bolSoccerTour+-+ProStreetSoccer&lpos=Watch3-s2
Vocabulary workshop: you will perform some task that will be so
useful for you in order to carry out the activity and searches on the
internet.

http://www.ac-nancy metz.fr/enseign/anglais/henry/tube.htm - voc

Step 3 : once you have been assigned your role, you will have to
research on the web the information for your project. Each of you
will be in charge of finding out the answer of four of the following
questions that will guide you through the process:
Questions
1. How are you going to travel to London?
2. What will be the weather like?
3. What kind of people will you meet there?
4. How can you get from the airport to the hotel?
5. Where are you going to stay?
6. How are you going to travel in the city?
7. Where are you going to eat?
8. What sights and museums can you visit there? Look
at the time tables, prices etc.
9. What kind of attractions and entertainments can you
find?
10. Where can you go out at night?
11. Where can you shop in London?
12. Calculate the budget for this week - trip.
Step 4: you will share with your workmates the information you
have collected.

Step 5: working as a group, you will develop the virtual trip to


London in power point presentation that will be display to the
class.
Resourses
This web page links will help you to carry out your work:
- Where to Stay in London.
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online
- London Local Weather
- London Pubs, bars and restaurants
- The Best Of London's Shopping
You will be evaluated through this rubric that will consider
the following categories:
CATEGORY 4 3 2 1
Oral Presentation Interesting, well- Relatively interesting, Delivery not smooth, Delivery not smooth
rehearsed with rehearsed with a fairly but able to hold and audience
smooth delivery that smooth delivery that audience attention attention lost.
holds audience usually holds most of the time.
attention. audience attention.
Sources Source information Source information Source information Very little or no source
collected for all collected for all collected for graphics, information was
graphics, facts and graphics, facts and facts and quotes, but collected.
quotes. All quotes. Most not documented in
documented in documented in desired format.
desired format. desired format.
Attractiveness Makes excellent use Makes good use of Makes use of font, Use of font, color,
of font, color, font, color, graphics, color, graphics, graphics, effects etc.
graphics, effects, etc. effects, etc. to effects, etc. but but these often
to enhance the enhance to occasionally these distract from the
presentation. presentation. detract from the presentaion content.
presentation content.
Requirements All requirements are All requirements are One requirement was More than one
met and exceeded. met. not completely met. requirement was not
completely met.
Mechanics No misspellings or Three or fewer Four misspellings More than 4 errors in
grammatical errors. misspellings and/or and/or grammatical spelling or grammar.
mechanical errors. errors.

Content Covers topic in-depth Includes essential Includes essential Content is minimal OR
with details and knowledge about the information about the there are several factual
examples. Subject topic. Subject topic but there are 1-2 errors.
knowledge is excellent. knowledge appears to factual errors.
be good.

Originality Product shows a large Product shows some Uses other people's Uses other people's
amount of original original thought. Work ideas (giving them ideas, but does not give
thought. Ideas are shows new ideas and credit), but there is little them credit.
creative and inventive. insights. evidence of original
thinking.

Workload The workload is divided The workload is divided The workload was divided, The workload was not
and shared equally by all and shared fairly by all but one person in the divided OR several people
team members. team members, though group is viewed as not in the group are viewed as
workloads may vary from doing his/her fair share of not doing their fair share of
person to person. the work. the work.
At the end of the activity , you are likely to have
acquired an extensive knowledge about the city of
London and how to organized a trip abroad. If you
were interested in improving your level of English,
what city would you go? UK or another English
speaking country?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_countries_where_engl
ish_is_an_official_language - top
http://www.esl-guide.com/
Credits
This lesson is created for first grade Secondary students .

The images an videos have been taken from:


http://www.google.com

The webquest lesson was created by:


Priscilla Mercado Cruz.
Sara Castro Riquelme.

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