Introduction
This week, we will host the couple known with their passion for travelling around the world in our class. They are mad about seeing new, but more importantly seeing the most interesting places. In each place which they go, they get people’s opinions about their next stations. This time they will ask for your ideas.
If you like travelling, you have to like staying at hotels or you have to find hotels that you will like. Our couple; however, usually complains about the ordinary hotels that they stay at, because they look for interesting, amazing and creative places. They need help from you about it!
Task
In order to help them, you should take a look at kinds of the most interesting and/or amazing hotels. You are supposed to choose your two favorite ones and then you are going to introduce them to our couple in a detailed way in our meeting. At the end of the day, they will choose the best advertised hotel. Remember, even if you advertise the same hotel(s) with the other group(s), our couple will choose the group who has presented it in the best way.
Process
Step 1:
Before starting, you should imagine yourself as one of the most successful advertiser in the world.
Step 2:
Then, you need to decide your colleagues. Create a group of 4.
Step 3:
Now, you are supposed to search for the most interesting /unusual/ amazing hotels around the world. Make a short list for the names and the places of the hotels which looks attractive to you.
Step 4:
After you have done your preliminary research, you need to choose best two hotels from your list. You need more comprehensive research for them. You are supposed to find out answers for the following questions:
- When were they built?
- What services/activities do they have?
- What makes them special?
- How much does it coast to stay in such a hotel?
- Are they open throughout the whole year or are they seasonal hotels?
Step 5:
By using the information that you have found, create short video-clips and/or posters to advertise your hotels to our guest. It will be better to use different pictures from the hotels. You can even add some guests’ comments about staying that hotel(s) if you can find any.
Step 6:
Present your video-clip(s) or poster(s) in the class. Each group has 8 minutes to introduce their hotels.
Evaluation
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Teamwork[1]
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Could not work Well together and needed constant redirection to stay focused on the assignment |
Able to work fairly well together but often needed redirection to stay focused on the assignment |
Able to work well together with occasional redirection needed to stay focused on the assignment |
Able to work well together and stay focused on the assignment |
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Hotel Research[2] |
Only a few of the questions on the research worksheets were answered |
Some of the questions on the research worksheets were answered |
Most of the questions on the research worksheets were answered |
All of the questions on the research worksheets were answered |
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Quality of Video clips and/or Posters |
The posters/ video clips were neither informative nor aesthetic |
The posters/ video clips could have more information/ pictures
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The poster/ video clips were informative, but did not seem attractive enough |
The posters/ video clips were informative and neatly prepared and aesthetically good |
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Quality of Presentation (eye contact, voice, gesture, body language) |
The presenters needs to improve their presentation skills
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The presenters needs to improve some parts of their presentation skills |
The presenters have shown good performance, but there are
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The presenters have shown excellent performance |
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Spelling & Grammar[3] |
There are more than eight spelling or grammatical errors. |
There are four to seven spelling or grammatical errors. |
There are three or less spelling or grammatical errors. |
There are no spelling or grammatical errors. |
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TOTAL: __ / 20 |
[1] http://questgarden.com/40/14/2/061102141753/evaluation.htm
[2] http://questgarden.com/40/14/2/061102141753/evaluation.htm
[3] http://questgarden.com/22/12/6/060412094652/evaluation.htm
Conclusion
Congratulations!
You did a great job. As you have learnt from this task, there are lots of different creative ideas around the world. If you want to join in these creative architectures or designers in the future, you may want to start with take a look at hotel guests’ most interesting requests from the hotel owners from the source below. If any interesting idea comes to your mind, feel free to create your own hotel. You can write about the characteristic features of the most interesting hotel in your mind.
http://www.skyscanner.net/news/worlds-weirdest-hotel-requests-and-compl…
Well done!
Credits
SPECIAL THANKS
TO
Hale H. KIZILCIK
My instructor, who guided me to learn about what webquest is and to create this webquest.
RESEARCH RESOURCES
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mackenziekruvant/unique-amazing-hotels
http://news.distractify.com/culture/mesmerizing-hotels-you-want-to-stay…
http://www.hotel.info/en/blog/the-most-amazing-and-unusual-hotels/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/architecture/the…
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-unusual-hotels/1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j149ve_Ldfg
http://www.psdtex.com/hotel-posters-psd.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7J0prl7f4
http://www.ourgreatyarmouth.org.uk/page_id__270_path__0p44p71p.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8NO_IG-3QU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbccokS8zuU
http://questgarden.com/40/14/2/061102141753/evaluation.htm
http://questgarden.com/22/12/6/060412094652/evaluation.htm
http://www.skyscanner.net/news/worlds-weirdest-hotel-requests-and-compl…
https://www.google.com.tr/search?q=the+strangest+hotels&source=lnms&tbm…
https://www.google.com.tr/search?q=traveller+couple&source=lnms&tbm=isc…
Teacher Page
This webquest is prepared for the 6th graders A2 level students. There are 16 students in the class and they are about to reach B1 level. They are studying in a private school, so they have 10-hour English courses each week. This lesson is designed to improve students' research and presentation skills. Resources will help them to improve their reading and listening skills and the task part is designed to improve their writing and speaking skills. This assignment is related to the topic of Holiday & Travel and it will help the students to practice many grammar structure, especially the passive and adjectives- adverbs, and modals, in a meaningful context.