Introduction
At last you are going to get it!
The pupils of sixth grade of Primary are going to try to program a cultural trip to London to know the city and the British culture well and to practice your knowledge of English.
To do this, they would need a support commission who would take charge of writing a dossier with all the necessary information to prepare the trip.
You, as students in this English course, would be the members of this commission. To know what to do, go to the section called TASK
ARE YOU READY?
Task
The task you have to make consists of, as you have just read, preparing a dossier with all the necessary information to be able to organize the trip: flight, accommodation, meals, public transport, cultural visits, shopping and leisure activities and of doing a handbook with the most necessary vocabulary and sentences in English to use them in the different situations in which we could come up against.
With this information you should:
1. Choose a proper flight and accommodation
2. Decide the most suggestive places to vis
3. Design a tourist guide where you have to detail, day by day, what we are going to do and the order.
4. Give an estimate
5. Learn and take a note of the most necessary vocabulary and sentences for each occasion.
To carry out the task you should organize yourselves in different ways and work as a team to achieve the best result.
The final product will consist in a tourist guide and a glosary made with WORD and a CD recorded with the videos about the comunicative situations and the ROLE-PLAY acted out by the different groups.
The activities you have to do are described in the section called PROCESS.
You will be evaluated following several aspects shown in the section called EVALUATION.
LET’S START WORKING!
Process
You are going to start your task!
It's a team work in which each one of you will have a mission to carry out individually, but, considering that you belong to the same team which will have to achieve a final objetive: the proper organization and planification of a cultural trip to London.
The work consits of two stages:
STAGE 1:
You must make EXPERT TEAMS composed of four people .
When you finish doing the teams you must assign a specific ROLE to each member of the group: tourist guide, interpreter, accountant and organizer.
- THE ORGANIZER will be in charge of looking informations about places and resources and of deciding the most suitable ones.
- THE TOURIST GUIDE will be in charge of compiling information about each place or resource chosen and of preparing a summary about the most important aspects.
- THE INTERPRETER will look for the specific language and vocabulary that you must use in each situation.
- THE ACCOUNTANT will make a note of the costs of each activity to prepare an estimate.
Each one of these groups will take care of looking for information about a especific aspect of the trip:
- EXPERTS 1. Flight to London, accommodation and means of public transport.
- EXPERTS 2. The most important museums, monuments and districts tours.
- EXPERTS 3. Leisure activities: shopping, shows and going out.
- EXPERTS 4. Places to have lunch and dinner.
You could find all these informations on the internet, on several webs that are detailed in the section called RESOURCES.
You must organize the work in each EXPERTS TEAM this way: each one of you will assume one of the roles listed before and will use the provided resources to achieve the information.
Later, all the members of the team will gather all the information and complete some informative sheets and a glossary. Then you will act out the dialogues connected with the proper communicative situations. You also must write the name of the pre-selected places on CARDS and you will stick them with blue- tack on a poster in your classroom.
All the members of the team will have a copy of these documents because you will be in charge of passing it on to the members of the other teams in the next stage of this work.
STAGE 2:
Leave your teams and make new and different teams, called WORK TEAMS, one for each day you will stay at London, to decide what activities you are going to do.
To do this, you will make new teams:
- TEAM 1 (DAY 1 AND 5): You must decide the activities you are going to do on the first and fifh day of your trip.
- TEAM 2 (DAY 2): You must establish the activities you are going to do on the second day of your stay at London.
- TEAM 3 (DAY 3): You will design what to do on your third day at London.
- TEAM 4 (DAY 4): You will decide the plan for the fourth day.
To do this task the members of each team must gather the informations you have obtained with your previous investigation.
When a team choose an activity to do in a specific day it must take from the general poster the corresponding CARD, just to avoid other team could choose it.
When you finish deciding the activities you must design a page of the LEAFLET where you will write the trip plan, day by day. You also will compile all the information about sentences and vocabulary you must use in different communicative situations to make a GLOSSARY.
You must practice the dialogues and each group will act out a specific situation.
When you finish this webquest you will have planned in all its aspects the cultural trip to London, you will have designed a TOURISTIC GUIDE with all the activities you are going to do day by day, with a little summary about the most important aspects of each activity and you will have compiled the language you will need in a GLOSSARY and you will have practiced it, acting out the dialogues in different communicative situations through a role-play.
Everything will be prepared to start the adventure!
Evaluation
Each member of your group will be given an individual grade and a group grade.
You will be graded individually on your part of the expert work (i.e. choose a proper flight and accommodation, decide the most suggestive places to visit, write a summary about the places, give an estimate and learn and take a note of the most necessary vocabulary and sentences for each occasion).
Your group grade will be based on your actual performance of the role-play (grammatical and spelling correctness) as well as the overall design of the tourist guide where you have to detail, day by day, what you are going to do and the order, which will be evaluated on accuracy as well as creativity and the collaborative effort.
Your individual work will be evaluated by yourshelves as well as by your teacher.
Your final performance and leaflet will be evaluated by your teacher and the rest of your classmates.
The individual grade and the group grade will each be worth fifty percent of the total grade.
INDIVIDUAL GRADE:
As you complete each of the tasks assigned, take into account the following Evaluation Chart.
| ASPECTS | EXCELLENT (5 points) |
AVERAGE (3 points) |
POOR (1 point) |
| Search andorganization of information | All the information is organized |
Some of the information is organized |
There is no organization of the information |
| Written quality of Word Processor Document |
The document is well written. No mistakes. |
The documents is acceptable. There are some mistakes. |
The document is poorly written. There are many mistakes. |
| Oral presentation of role-play |
English is used correctly. You have very few grammatical or spelling errors. None of them are very important. |
English is used in an acceptable way; there are some mistakes when speaking. You have an average number of grammatical and spelling errors. Some of them are important. |
English is poorly used; there are many mistakes when speaking. You have a lot of important grammatical/spelling errors. |
| Personal interest on final products |
You have had a positive attitude toward the project |
You have had an acceptable attitude toward the project |
You have had a negative attitude toward the project. |
| experts group work |
Your work shows that you have cooperated very well with each other and that you all have supported each other. |
Your work shows that you have cooperated with each other, although it is obious that you have worked less or worse than others. |
Your work shows that you have cooperated with each other, although it is obvious that some of you have worked quite less or worse than others. |
GROUP GRADE:
As you complete each of the tasks assigned, take into account the following Evaluation Chart.
| ASPECTS | EXCELLENT (5 points) |
AVERAGE (3 points) |
POOR (1 point) |
| Individual information transference |
All the information has been properly transfered |
Some of the information has been not very well transfered |
There has been some lack of transference of the information |
| Gathering of information |
Everybody took part actively obtaining part of the information for the final file |
There has been some lack of balance in the contributions to the final file. |
Some members have not contributed anything or very few and have not involved themselves. |
| Quality of final leaflet |
The document is organized, easy to understand and clean | The document is acceptable but not too clear | The document is poorly presented. It has no organization and no clarity |
| Oral presentation of role-play |
English is used correctly. You have very few grammatical or spelling errors. None of them are very important. |
English is used in an acceptable way; there are some mistakes when speaking. You have an average number of grammatical and spelling errors. Some of them are important. |
English is poorly used; there are many mistakes when speaking. You have a lot of important grammatical/spelling errors. |
| Team work |
Your work shows that you have cooperated very well with each other and that you all have supported each other |
Your work shows that you have cooperated with each other, although it is obvious that you have worked less or worse than others. |
Your work shows that you have cooperated with each other, although it is obvious that some of you have worked quite less or worse than others. |
You have to add up all your points and your final mark will be calculated this way:
MARK = Total points x 2 / 10
Conclusion
When you finish this webquest you will have planned in all its aspects the cultural trip to London, you will have designed a TOURISTIC GUIDE with all the activities you are going to do day by day, with a little summary about the most important aspects of each activity and you will have compiled the language you will need in a GLOSSARY and you will have practiced it, acting out the dialogues in different communicative situations through a role-play.
Everything will be READY to start the adventure!