The United Kingdom
*Description*
Main idea is to give students chance to know about the country whose language is what they are learning.
Students get to know about the United Kingdom; England, Scotland, Wales and the Northern Ireland.
*Grade level*
High school students (15-18)
*Curriculum*
English/English culture
INTRODUCTION
Do you know how these buidings are called?
The UK is a country where English language originally comes from.
There are many famous people who were born in the UK
such as Shakespeare, Newton, the beatles and JK Rowling.
In this webquest, you can know more about the UK,
cities, reamarkable people, culture, buildings, and so on.
TASK
Your final assignment is to give 15-20 minutes presentation with a group.
As your topic, you choose one of the 4 nations in the UK which are,
England, Scotland, Wales and Northen Ireland.
Follow the instructions below and make a good presentation!
PROCESS
1) Watch the video and learn about basic geographical information about the UK.
2) Decide which part of the UK you want to work on.
3) Find people who are interested in the same nation with you
and make a group of 4 people.
4) In the group, research about the nation
including these information below.
name
location
population
capital cities
remarkable people
landmark
5) Make a presentation based on what you found.
Use many pictures in powerpoint!
6) After listening to other presentations,
compare which nation is the biggest or smallest,
well-develoed or less developed,
where you would like to go for what purpose
and share your pinions in a group!
EVALUATION
Teacher will evaluate each group
which means that members of a group get the same score.
You really have to work hard together with group!
There are the criterias of evaluation.
Content - quality and quantity of information given in the presentation
Powerpoint presentation - wether it's easy to understand and well organized
Group work - if each of group member gets the same chance to talk and express
Language - if you use proper language in appropreate situation
| Evaluation criteria. | |||||
Poor 1 | Fair 2 | Good 3 | Exellent 4 | Score | |
Content | Cover very basic information of the nation | Have some interesting facts in addition to basic information | Intersting information with good comparison | Very interesting information with clitical analysis and comparison | |
Powrpoint presentation | No pictures, just copied sentences from sources | Not many pictures but write sentences on slideshow | Easy to follow presentation with some pictures | Well organized slideshows with many appropreate pictures | |
Group work | Each member just has done their own parts | Every member tries to cooperate with each other | Each member is well cooperated to he work | Each memeber equalily contributes to the group work | |
Use of Language | Be able to make sentences but with many mistakes | Use understandable language with som mistakes | Make almost perfect sentences but few mistakes | Use appropreate language with suitable situastion, make no mistales | |
CONCLUSION
Now, you must have learnt a little bit more about the United Kingdom.
Does this project make you want to travel to the UK?
Things you learned will be very useful when you actually go there.
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