travel agent webquest
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Designed by: Noor Said Al-MaashaniSultan Qaboos UniversityMasters’ Student/ 2014
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Travel Agent WebQuest
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 1: Sit together, look at these websites about different destinations, think about the family, listen to each other and agree on one destination.The websites are:
Process
France: 1 & 2 Malaysia: 1 & 2 Egypt: 1 & 2
England 1 & 2 Japan: 1 & 2 Oman: 1 & 2
Italy: 1 & 2 South Africa: 1 & 2 Dubai: 1 & 2
Spain: 1 & 2 New York: 1 & 2 Lebanon: 1 & 2
Turkey: 1 & 2 Morocco: 1 & 2
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.
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