WebQuest: Discover your own London

Introduction

Discover your own London

During this WebQuest, you are going to explore one of the world's most visited and wonderful cities, namely London.

You will first do a listening and a vocabulary exercise to become familiar with the city and next you will plan your very own trip to London in pairs.

Let's get started!

Task

This WebQuest consists of three different tasks:

Part 1: listening and vocabulary

You will watch three videos and answer some questions about them. Next, you will combine ten typical London words with their equivalents.

Part 2: planning a two-day trip to London in pairs

In this part, you will have to organize a two-day trip to London. You will have to write an email to book a room in a hotel, you will have to look for two excellent restaurants and finally you will have to recommend four must-do activities in London.

Part 3: promotional presentation

Finally, you will try to sell your trip during a promotional presentation.

Process

WebQuest: Discover your own London

Part 1: listening and vocabulary

Learn how to do London like a local by watching these three videos:

How to do London: The Basics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F4GDdanQNA
How to do London: Weather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTiKZxyfemU
How to do London: Eating out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s5Z-wCRLoE

While watching the videos, answer the following questions:

1. What is an Oyster Card?

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2. What is a public house?

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3. What does the ringing of a bell in a public house indicate?

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4. What does the clip advises you to do in the summer?

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5. What can you do in Carnaby Street and Covent Garden?

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6. How many per cent is the service charge on a bill in a restaurant?

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Write your answers on your hand-out.

In order to sound like a real Londoner, study the following words and combine them with their equivalents.

1. a butty	a. a cupcake
2. a pudding	b. a nap
3. a jacket potato	c. a cup of tea
4. a fairy cake	d. a sandwich
5. to queue	e. a television
6. a cuppa	f. to spend too much money
7. a telly	g. a baked potato
8. knackered	h. a dessert
9. to splash out	i. to stand in line
10. a kip	j. tired

Write your answers on your hand-out.

Part 2: planning a two-day trip to London

You all work at a travel agency and a client has asked you to organize a two-day trip to London. Your client will arrive in London on Saturday morning and he will return back home on Monday morning.

You will organize the two-day trip to London in pairs. Your client has asked you to do the following things:

To book a room in a hotel for two nights including breakfast.
To find two restaurants to have dinner on Saturday and on Sunday.
To recommend four top experiences: two things to do on Saturday and two things to do on Sunday.

On the following websites, you will find all the information you need to organize the trip:

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/england/london

http://www.visitlondon.com/

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g186338-London_England-Vacations.html

In order to book a room for your client, you will send an email to the hotel. Make sure to mention all the necessary information in your email: the date of your client’s stay, the room type etc.

Write your email on your hand-out.

Which two restaurants do you recommend?

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Which four activities do you recommend?

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4. .............................................................................................

Write your answers on your hand-out.

Part 3: promotional presentation

During the next lesson, you will have to present the trip you have planned in pairs by means of an attractive and convincing PowerPoint presentation.

Your presentation should have the following structure:

1. Introduction: You introduce your presentation and you explain to your audience which aspects you are going to talk about.

2. Body: You present your trip in great detail. You also explain why you have chosen the hotel, the restaurants and the top experiences.

3. Conclusion: You list the main parts of your presentation. You conclude your presentation with a statement in which you convince your client why he should book your trip.

Your presentation should take approximately five minutes and the information should be equally divided between both members of the group.

Evaluation

1. Self-evaluation and reflection

What did you learn during this webquest? Do you believe this webquest was useful? What difficulties did you encounter during the webquest? How did the teamwork go? Did you equally divide the tasks?

Write your self-evaluation and reflection on your hand-out.

2. Peer evaluation

Listen carefully to the presentations of your peers and write down some strong points and some possible points for improvement.

Write some strong points and some possible points for improvement on your hand-out.

3. Teacher evaluation

During the presentations, the teacher will complete this rubric for each pupil.

	3 (excellent)	2 (good)	1 (sufficient)	0 (needs improvement)
Language (35%)	The pupil uses good grammar and vocabulary. He/she constantly speaks in English.	The pupil uses simple, but correct sentences. He/she rarely switches over to Dutch.	The pupil mostly uses correct sentences. He/she switches over to Dutch now and then.	The pupil has difficulties with forming correct sentences. He/she often switches over to Dutch.
Presentation skills (30%)	The pupil knows his/her text by heart and keeps eye contact with the audience.	The pupil knows his/her text by heart, but doesn’t keep eye contact with the audience.	The pupil often has to look at his/her preparation, so he/she can’t really keep eye contact with the audience.	The pupil reads out his/her text and doesn’t keep eye contact with the audience.
Content (35%)	The presentation consists of all the necessary information and its structure makes sense	The presentation consists of all the necessary information, but its structure doesn’t always make sense.	Some information is missing and the structure of the presentation doesn’t always make sense.	Much information is missing and the structure of the presentation doesn’t make sense.

Conclusion

After you have given your own presentation and after you have listened to the presentations of your peers, you will know the city of London like the back of your hand!

Have you ever thought of becoming a tourist guide?

Well done, everyone!

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