Introduction
Getting to Know Elsinore is an activity designed to provide a general overview of Hamlet and create a lively environment in which students can learn and share their ideas with their mates, and gain motivation at the same time they improve their foreign language skills.
This webquest aims to allow students to practise a foreign language and combine new technologies with traditional means of communication. Besides we offer our students an opportunity to analyse different ideas about one of Shakespeare's most famous plays.
This is part of PBL. The didactic methods are focused on action and the subjects of learning are the students themselves.
Process
Students will work in transnational groups of 5/6
Each group will choose a name of one of the characters in the play and will be given a Padlet page, following the TEMPLATE page:
https://padlet.com/luzmariasantamarta/getting-to-know-elsinore-template-fwv09o7apu6c
There they will find a series of questions about the play and will have to answer them searching for information in the adapted play in Oxford Bookworms Stage 2 or any other editions teachers may agree on.
Protect these Padlet pages so that students from different groups cannot interfere. If you want to use this webquest, you just have to remake this template (just change the name of the group and the photograph)
After completing the webquest, groups will be given marks for right answers, but they will also be punished if grammar is not correct.
Evaluation
Students will be assessed following the Rubric they will be given in the classroom, bearing in mind the following:
- Directions
- Cooperative work
- Use of Resources
- Completion of the project
- Presentation of the project