Webquest tp 3
- 1. TITLE: Clothes and colours Description: This is an elementary lesson focusing on clothes, colours, going to for plans and intentions and the modal verb "might". Grade level: 9-12 Curriculum: Foreign Language Keywords: Clothes Author(s): Verónica Fabrizio Introduction: Women and even men pay a lot of attention to clothes and the colours. How many times we say: "I like this colour for this and that other colour for that". Especially women love planning what they are going to wear for this or that occasion. We usually hear: "I am going to wear this red dress for the party on Saturday but not for the wedding I have next week". People plan all the time what they are going to wear and what colours and for what occasions. Clothes and colours seem a very important issue in today's life and so we should pay attention to it and what's more... fell comfortable with what we wear.
- 2. Task: Students will prepare between 15 to 20 sheets of paper with interviews on it. The aim is to interview from 15 to 20 teenagers about the kind of clothes they wear. The interview will consist on the following questions: 1- What sort of clothes do you like wearing? 2- How much do you spend on clothes? 3- What's in fashion among your friends? After doing the interviews students will analyze the results and they are going to create a data base. With that data base they are going to calculate percentages and represent these percentages with drawings on excel. After doing this, students will present the work to the class and to the teacher and they are going to draw the final conclusions together. Process: 1- Before doing the interviews, ask students to visit the following websites for them to be informed about the topic they are going to investigate, which is "Colours and clothes": www.joyofclothes.com Ask students to explore the website and to jot down some aspects to bare in mind while doing the interviews. 2- Now, ask students to create the interview form on a word document. They should include the name and the age of the person who is being interviewed. After this, ask them to print them out and to start doing the interviews. 3- When students have the interviews ready, they will create a data base with all the information they have from the interviews on a Word document. 4- Now ask students to represent the percentage of each question creating a drawing on Excel.
- 3. 5- Having everything done, students will show the class their work and the results they got from it and together with the teacher; they will draw the final conclusions about clothes and colours in teenagers. Evaluation: This assignment will take into account the following things: * Dedication (The number of hours spent on it and the quality of the work) * Use of language, punctuation and grammar (This involves students jotting down what they read from the website, the data base and the final conclusion) * The fact of handing the work punctually. Conclusion: With this assignment students have: * Practiced how to summarize information on a website. * Used the internet to investigate about a topic. * Practiced how to create a data base and to use Excel. * Realized which information is relevant in order to write it down. * Learn how to do an interview. * Learn a bit more about other teenagers. * Listened to the other classmates work and the different opinions on it. * Talked about "Colours, clothes and teenagers" in the foreign language. Teacher page: I am a trainee teacher from Argentina. I have planned this web quest for elementary students from nine to twelve years old. It is a great activity for learners as it is an interesting topic among all teenagers. The assignment is not a difficult one it only takes its time. Try to set time limits for each stage.