Trip to London
A WebQuest for level B1 (ESL)
Designed by Carmen Luisa Pérez Amaro
Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion | Credits
Introduction
Your school is planning a 7 days’ trip to London. The excursion will take 7 days including flights there and back. Your teachers want you to participate in the planning of the excursion, so that what you will have to decide in this Webquest is how you want to spend those 7 days.
Task
You are going to organise a trip to London. You will come up with a document, in which you will specify information about the tickets back to Tenerife, the hotel where you want to stay, as well as the places and activities you want to do in London. The trip will take 7 days and you have to try to make it cheap.
Process
1) The planning work will be done in small groups, although you are jointly responsible for the successful completion of the Webquest. Therefore, the first thing to be done is forming a group (maximum of 3 students per group).
2) Choose one of the following areas:
- Group 1: tickets
- Group 2: hotel
- Group 3: theatre
- Group 4: monuments
- Group 5: parks and gardens
- Group 6: buildings
- Group 7: churches and cathedrals
- Group 8: museums, galleries and attractions
- Group 9: bars and pubs
- Group 10: shopping
3) Read what your group will have to do. Search the web
resources your teacher has given you and copy, paste and save material for
study and editing. Pay attention to language and design and remember to
credit the sources you used.
4) When you are ready, you will have to put your work in common with the
other groups in order to form a finished document of your plan for the
trip to London.
Evaluation
You
will be evaluated using the following rubric. You will receive points for your
individual work, your small group work, and your final essay as a whole class
group. Use the following rubrics as guidelines while you are working.
|
Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Accomplished 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
Score |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INDIVIDUAL WORK | |||||
| Speaks in English |
Does not speak in English. | Speaks in some English. | Speaks mostly in English. | Speaks in English exclusively. | |
| Cooperates with Group |
Usually argues with group members. | Sometimes argues. | Rarely argues. | Never argues. | |
| SMALL GROUP WORK and DOCUMENT | |||||
| Research and gather information |
Do not collect any information that relates to the topic. | Collect little information Some relates to topic. | Collect good information. Most of it relates to the topic. | Collect a great deal of information. All of it relates to the topic. | |
|
Content |
Do not include enough information. | Include some good information. Some is appropriate but some is useless. | Include mostly useful information. | Include all useful information that is appropriate. | |
| Grammar |
Contains many grammatical errors. | Contains several errors. | Contains some errors. | Is virtually error free. | |
| FINAL ESSAY | |||||
Design
| Description reflecting a beginning level of performance. | Description reflecting development and movement toward mastery of performance. | Description reflecting mastery of performance. | Description reflecting the highest level of performance. | |
Conclusion
Your “Trip to London Webquest” is now completed. You have gathered a lot of interesting new information on London as well as gained more confidence in navigating in the virtual world. But, of course, you have also been exposed to a number of authentic English texts, and hence, have had good practice in reading comprehension and rewriting.
Credits & References
We want to thank The WebQuest Page and its Design Patterns for providing resources and help, and
the following webquests for providing inspiration:
http://www.geocities.com/eimarjke/webquest/index.htm
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/absolutenglish-972/notes/webquest/page1.htm
We all benefit by being generous with our work. Permission is hereby granted for other educators to copy this WebQuest, update or otherwise modify it, and post it elsewhere provided that the original author's name is retained along with a link back to the original URL of this WebQuest. On the line after the original author's name, you may add Modified by (your name) on (date). If you do modify it, please let me know and provide the new URL.
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