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Designed by: Noor Said Al-Maashani Sultan Qaboos University Masters’ Student/ 2014 53573 Travel Agent WebQuest

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Designed by: Noor Said Al-MaashaniSultan Qaboos UniversityMasters’ Student/ 2014

53573

Travel Agent WebQuest

Introduction

Task

Process

Evaluation

Conclusion

Teacher’s Page

Content

Do you like planning trips for others? Have you ever done that? If you have, did they like your plan? If you have not, would you like to try

it? Here, in this web quest we provide

you with a chance to show us your planning skills and persuasive skills by working as a team member in a travel agency.

Show us how creative and convincing you are!

Introduction

A family consisting of a father, a mother and their 3 children, a 17- years old girl, a 12- years old boy and a 5- years old girl, has come to your travel agency company and asked it to plan their one week summer vacation. Your company’s manager divided you into 5 teams of 5 members and asked each team to present the family with a proposal.To do the task, you should : think about each member in the family. choose a suitable destination for them. provide them with enough information about their

destination, its culture and history, places to visit, things to do, famous restaurants and hotels.

plan carefully each day of their vacation. It should be an enjoyable schedule.

present them with an attractive proposal using a presentation, brochures and any other interesting things.

convince them with your proposal.The winner team will be given a very high bonus and tickets to travel to the same destination they have chosen for the family.

Task

Step 2: Assign each member of your team to one of these roles:1. A researcher about places to visit2. A researcher about activities to do3. A researcher about famous places to

eat in4. A researcher about famous hotels

and resorts5. A researcher about the destination’s

history and cultureNow, each member of the team go through the websites and find information about her topic.

Process

Step 3: 1. Sit together and present to each other

the information you have gathered.2. Discuss which information you should

include in your proposal.3. Now, plan together each day of the

family’s vacation. Remember, it is one week long.

Note: again think about each member of the family and be creative.

Process

Step 4:1. Assign your team members to these roles:a. Two writers b. Two designersc. One presenterNote: you can change the roles and have more than one presenter.2. Now, each member should do her task carefully. The writers should write the presentation. The designers should design the brochures, the trip schedule

and any other materials you will use. The presenter should practise well what she will say in front of

the clients. She should be confident and persuasive enough.

Process

Step 5:

Today is the big day. Your clients are waiting for you. Do your best to convince them with your proposal.Note: remember to look at the evaluation rubric.

Process

EvaluationExcellent (4) Good (3) Satisfactory (2) Poor (1) The area

Enough, accurate and interesting information

Enough and accurate information

Hardly enough information but some inaccurate

Little and inaccurate information about the destination

Content

Well- organized information , very accurate language, attractive and relevant visuals

Organized information, accurate language, relevant and enough visuals

Acceptable organization, acceptable accuracy level and some irrelevant visuals

Poor organization , grammatical errors and few or irrelevant visuals

Brochure

Creative way of presenting, confident and accurate presenter

Interesting way of presenting, to some extent confident and accurate presenter

Acceptable way of presenting, hesitant and barely accurate presenter

Poor way of presenting, confused and unconfident and inaccurate presenter

Presentation

Excellent use of persuasive language

Good use of persuasive language

Acceptable use of persuasive language

No use of persuasive language

Persuasive speech

Excellent level of cooperation between the team members

Good cooperation between the team members

The team cooperate with each other to some extent

No cooperation between the team

Working as a team

Deep thinking and analysis, no grammatical mistakes

Good level of thinking and few grammatical mistakes

Acceptable level of thinking and some grammatical mistakes

Poor level of thinking and too many grammatical mistakes

Reflection papers

Well done to all teams and congratulations to the winner team .

Now, all of you have got some good experience about being a travel agent and about being a team member. Reflect on these two questions in two separate essay papers.1. Did you like being a travel agent? Will you

consider it as your future career? Why?2. Some jobs require you to work in a team.

Having experienced that, how do you evaluate yourself as a team member? Would you like to have a job in which you work in a team? Why?

Conclusion

This web quest is designed for grades 12. It should be used with theme 5, A warm Welcome,

in the course book Engage with English A. The main objectives are

1. Improving students’ oral speech and writing2. Developing students’ persuasive skills, research

skills and planning skills3. Exposing students to different cultures4. Offering students with a career they may add to

their future job list This web quest should be taught in 5 lessons.

Teacher’s Page