Customs and things you are allowed and you are not allowed to do in the world
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WebQuest for the English advance level education
INTRODUCTION
Don’t you know the Madison
square garden? Have you smoked a cigarette in central park? Do you imagine
you eating scorpions or running in the Great Wall of China? What people can do
in a foreign country or unknown place?
In this Webquest we are
going to make a review about some things that people use to do or are not
allowed to do due to their traditions and customs. In this virtual tour we can
learn new vocabulary to approach at the knowledge about new places in the world
with out visiting them. On the other hand, we could interact with foreign
people in a good manner following their social rules.
TASK
- To do this task team 1, team 2, team 3 and team 4 will investigate everything related about an specific country given below. Here we have the countries that you will investigate according to your team.
TEAM 1 CHINA
TEAM 2 MEXICO
TEAM 3 INDIA
TEAM 4 FRANCE
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Write a little paragraph with the information about the country that you
have been investigated.
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Each team will take notes about interesting things according to 4 things what people are
allowed and are not allowed to do.
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In your investigation you have to clarify the main thing or custom that
people are allowed or are not allowed to do and specify what the reason
is.
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When you all have finished your investigation try to be agree with your
team to collect pictures on the web to start working in a power point
presentation.
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Each team will spend 4 minutes for each student to complete at least 10
or 15 minutes for the whole presentation.
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At the end of your presentation you have to answer the question below to
the audience.
What important things have I learnt about the
customs in this country?
ORIENTATION
- Before your presentation you could try to make a list of the stuffs with the material that you are going to use.
- Write a short draft in your own words to help you with the oral presentation.
- Try to check 4 different reliable sources information.
- In your slides please try to use no more than three colors.
- Depend on your goal; please! use only keywords in your presentation to explain just the main points.
RESOURCES
Use the following links to learn more about it and answer the questionnaire.
- Customs & Traditions from Around the World.
CONCLUSION
At the end of the activity you and
your classmates are going to be ready to face the challenge that implies to learn new vocabulary, new
culture customs and new expresions used them in a real contex life. People have
always been worried about what they have to do if they found their selves out
of information according the right things that belong in a specific place in
the world. Now, you have learnt how people have to act depending on the
situation and the customs that they know by reading and investigating on the
web. Now, we have the technology to do it. Anyway, it’s good for people to know
and keep traditions because they are complete of history and it’s an important
part of our culture and lives.
EVALUATION
Incomplete
one
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Regular
two
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Good
three
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Excelent
four
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Notes
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