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A Webquest for Teachers
Designed by Johanna Stirling
Group 1 Tasksheet (Print-friendly Version)
1. First you need to make and save a copy of this worksheet so that you
can write in it. Do it like this:
- Select this whole page (Click
on this page. Hold down Ctrl and press A)
- Now make a copy of it (Hold
down Ctrl and press C)
- Now open Word (Click on the
Word icon on the bottom left of your screen or via the Start menu)
- Paste the Tasksheet into Word
(Hold down Ctrl and press V). This should now appear on your screen as a black
and white document.
- Save the document according to your
tutor's instructions
2. Read the first situation and the question/task.
3 .
Click on the link (and follow any instructions given with it) to go to the
website and try to answer the question or complete the task. You can
write or paste the answer into the Answer box (it will expand to fit).
4. Go back to the same website and
spend a few minutes exploring it. Make notes on the following:
· What else can you find there
that may be useful in your teaching?
· Does it make you think of any
ideas for teaching with this material?
· Anything you have to bear in
mind? (eg American English)
· What's your general evaluation
of this site?
Write your comments in the Comments box of your worksheet.
5. Now do the next two tasks following instructions 2-4 above.
Task 1A
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Situation |
You're teaching weather vocabulary. Students will be more
interested in tomorrow's weather for wherever you are (rather than the
weather forecast in the book). |
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Question/Task |
According to a forecast, what's the maximum temperature here tomorrow? |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
Go to Yahoo.
In the directories on the page click on Weather. Directories such as
these are great for searching; they often take you where you want to go
more quickly than a search engine, particularly for more general
enquiries. |
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Comments about this site (Yahoo Weather) |
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Task 1B
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Situation |
Everybody loves a quiz. And a lot of students like Harry
Potter. You're going to use some extracts from Harry Potter (not on
the web as far as I know) to work on describing personalities. But
first you want to do a quiz about the books to lead into the topic and
find out how much your students know. |
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Question/Task |
Find a quiz about Harry Potter. What level students would be able
to cope with this? |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/quiz/ |
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Comments about this site |
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Task 1C
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Situation |
Your colleagues envy your amazing computer skills!! They want to
be a computer wizard like you. You suggest they try the link
below. When you look at the link yourself you realise that there are
a few things that you don't know how to do either. You'd better
learn them quickly before you're found out. |
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Question/Task |
Find three bits of computer advice that are new to you or your
partner. Either make notes or copy and paste in the box below. |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://www.volny.cz/brabbs/shortcourse.htm |
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Comments about this site |
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When you have finished ask your tutor if there's time to try some more.
If so, go to All Tasks,
and investigate some more sites (you don't have to write about them)
A Webquest for Teachers
Designed by Johanna Stirling
Group 2 Tasksheet (Print-friendly Version)
1. First you need to make and save a copy of this worksheet so that you
can write in it. Do it like this:
· Select this whole page (Click
on this page. Hold down Ctrl and press A)
· Now make a copy of it (Hold
down Ctrl and press C)
· Now open Word (Click on the
Word icon on the bottom left of your screen or via the Start menu)
· Paste the Tasksheet into Word
(Hold down Ctrl and press V). This should now appear on your screen as a black
and white document.
· Save the document according to your
tutor's instructions
2. Read the first situation and the question/task.
3 .
Click on the link (and follow any instructions given with it) to go to the
website and try to answer the question or complete the task. You can
write or paste the answer into the Answer box (it will expand to fit).
4. Go back to the same website and
spend a few minutes exploring it. Make notes on the following:
· What else can you find there
that may be useful in your teaching?
· Does it make you think of any
ideas for teaching with this material?
· Anything you have to bear in
mind? (eg American English)
· What's your general evaluation
of this site?
Write your comments in the Comments box of your worksheet.
5. Now do the next two tasks following instructions 2-4 above.
Task 2A
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Situation |
You want your students to talk about their countries in a multicultural
class. If each had an outline of their country, they could use it to
illustrate their talk. |
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Question/Task |
Paste an outline of the country where you are now in the answer box. |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/ |
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Comments about this site |
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Task 2B
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Situation |
Students are doing a speaking task: deciding which famous people have
influenced our lives most. For this they have to choose one person,
think of some questions they'd like answered about them, do a bit of
research to find the answers on the internet and then give a short
presentation. |
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Question/Task |
Answer these questions about Nelson Mandela:
1. When did he join the
ANC?
2. When was he first in
prison?
3. What did he do in
prison during his life sentence?
4 .
What serious illness did he
have in prison?
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Answer: |
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Link: |
www.biography.com |
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Comments about this site |
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Task 2C
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Situation |
Help! You've got nothing to teach this afternoon. What you
need is a ready made lesson plan about a topical subject. |
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Question/Task |
Find a sample lesson that you would like to use and write a brief
description of it in the answer box. |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
www.insideout.net/register.htm |
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Comments about this site |
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When you have finished ask
your tutor if there's time to try some more. If so, go to All
Tasks, and investigate some more
sites (you don't have to write about them)
A Webquest for Teachers
Designed by Johanna Stirling
Group 3 Tasksheet
(Print-friendly Version)
1. First you need to make and save a copy of this worksheet so that you
can write in it. Do it like this:
· Select this whole page (Click
on this page. Hold down Ctrl and press A)
· Now make a copy of it (Hold
down Ctrl and press C)
· Now open Word (Click on the
Word icon on the bottom left of your screen or via the Start menu)
· Paste the Tasksheet into Word
(Hold down Ctrl and press V). This should now appear on your screen as a black
and white document.
· Save the document according to your
tutor's instructions
2. Read the first situation and the question/task.
3 .
Click on the link (and follow any instructions given with it) to go to the
website and try to answer the question or complete the task. You can
write or paste the answer into the Answer box (it will expand to fit).
4. Go back to the same website and
spend a few minutes exploring it. Make notes on the following:
· What else can you find there
that may be useful in your teaching?
· Does it make you think of any
ideas for teaching with this material?
· Anything you have to bear in
mind? (eg American English)
· What's your general evaluation
of this site?
Write your comments in the Comments box of your worksheet.
5. Now do the next two tasks following instructions 2-4 above.
Task 3A
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Situation |
To make a lesson about the family more interesting it would be useful
to have some up-to-date facts about family life in Britain. |
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Question/Task |
Find three interesting facts about family life. You can either
write or copy and paste into the box below. |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp |
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Comments about this site |
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Task 3B
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Situation |
You want to revise vocabulary in a fun way. Perhaps by making a
wordsearch puzzle. Even better, the students could make puzzles for
each other later. |
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Question/Task |
Make a wordsearch with names of six different vegetables. Paste it in
the Answer box. |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ |
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Comments about this site |
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Task 3C
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Situation |
Your students really want to chat to native speakers or people whose
English is much better than theirs, but there is not much opportunity for
this where they are. Perhaps the answer is "chatting"
online. Your students are preparing for an exam in which they have
to write and speak about world issues. |
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Question/Task |
Find the Current News discussion forum. Read a few threads
(topics being discussed). What do you think are the benefits and
drawbacks of this type of forum? |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/student/
index.php |
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Comments about this site |
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When you have finished ask your tutor if there's time to try some more.
If so, go to All Tasks,
and investigate some more sites (you don't have to write about them)
A Webquest for Teachers
Designed by Johanna Stirling
Group 4 Tasksheet
(Print-friendly Version)
1. First you need to make and save a copy of this worksheet so that you
can write in it. Do it like this:
· Select this whole page (Click
on this page. Hold down Ctrl and press A)
· Now make a copy of it (Hold
down Ctrl and press C)
· Now open Word (Click on the
Word icon on the bottom left of your screen or via the Start menu)
· Paste the Tasksheet into Word
(Hold down Ctrl and press V). This should now appear on your screen as a black
and white document.
· Save the document according to your
tutor's instructions
2. Read the first situation and the question/task.
3 .
Click on the link (and follow any instructions given with it) to go to the
website and try to answer the question or complete the task. You can
write or paste the answer into the Answer box (it will expand to fit).
4. Go back to the same website and
spend a few minutes exploring it. Make notes on the following:
· What else can you find there
that may be useful in your teaching?
· Does it make you think of any
ideas for teaching with this material?
· Anything you have to bear in
mind? (eg American English)
· What's your general evaluation
of this site?
Write your comments in the Comments box of your worksheet.
5. Now do the next two tasks following instructions 2-4 above.
Task 4A
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Situation |
Visual aids are invaluable for eliciting and clarifying
vocabulary. You are teaching prepositions to a beginner's group in
the morning and food to an advanced group in the afternoon. |
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Question/Task |
Copy and paste two images into the answer box. One of the
preposition "next", and one of "toad in the hole" . |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart/
(look in the Topic Gallery there) and in Google
click on the Images tab.
Then go to Advanced Image Search. Several people have called their house
"Toad in the Hole" - how can you avoid getting pictures of
those? |
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Comments about these sites |
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Task 4B
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Situation |
Your intermediate students are interested in the news, but they find
the newspapers too difficult to read. There's just too much
vocabulary that they don't know. |
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Question/Task |
What are the advantages of students doing this online rather than
printing it off for them to do in class? And why is it better than
an ordinary newspaper? |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn
/index.shtml |
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Comments about this site |
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Task 4C
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Situation |
You need a job! |
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Question/Task |
Paste below details of any jobs (max. 3) that might interest you or
your colleagues. |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://www.tesol.net/getjob.cgi?FA=ListJobs |
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Comments about this site |
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When you have finished ask your tutor if there's time to try some more.
If so, go to All Tasks,
and investigate some more sites (you don't have to write about them)
A Webquest for Teachers
Designed by Johanna Stirling
Group 5 Tasksheet
(Print-friendly Version)
1. First you need to make and save a copy of this worksheet so that you
can write in it. Do it like this:
· Select this whole page (Click
on this page. Hold down Ctrl and press A)
· Now make a copy of it (Hold
down Ctrl and press C)
· Now open Word (Click on the
Word icon on the bottom left of your screen or via the Start menu)
· Paste the Tasksheet into Word
(Hold down Ctrl and press V). This should now appear on your screen as a black
and white document.
· Save the document according to your
tutor's instructions
2. Read the first situation and the question/task.
3 .
Click on the link (and follow any instructions given with it) to go to the
website and try to answer the question or complete the task. You can
write or paste the answer into the Answer box (it will expand to fit).
4. Go back to the same website and
spend a few minutes exploring it. Make notes on the following:
· What else can you find there
that may be useful in your teaching?
· Does it make you think of any
ideas for teaching with this material?
· Anything you have to bear in
mind? (eg American English)
· What's your general evaluation
of this site?
Write your comments in the Comments box of your worksheet.
5. Now do the next two tasks following instructions 2-4 above.
Task 5A
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Situation |
There's an awful song in your coursebook so you ask your students if
there's a song they would prefer to work on. They suggest a song and
give you the CD. But you haven't got time to transcribe all the
words. |
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Question/Task |
Paste the first verse of "Don't Know Why" by Norah Jones in
the answer box. |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
www.lyrics.com |
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Comments about this site |
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Task 5B
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Situation |
You've been studying phrasal verbs with your class and they need more
practice. |
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Question/Task |
What are the advantages of using this activity rather than a similar
one in the coursebook? Any disadvantages? |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://www.englishforum.com/00/interactive/ex07.html |
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Comments about this site |
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Task 5C
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Situation |
Your students ask you which is right: a)"different to",
b)"different than", or c)"different from". You
are about to give an answer, when you suddenly start to doubt
yourself. You decide to check what most people say. |
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Question/Task |
Note below how many instances you find of these three phrases. To
do this enter 'different' into the web concordancer and then press 'Go'. |
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Answer: |
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Link: |
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/ |
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Comments about this site |
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When you have finished ask your tutor if there's time to try some more.
If so, go to All Tasks,
and investigate some more sites (you don't have to write about them)
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