A WebQuest task which can be used with English language learners.

1. Designed by: Noor Said Al-Maashani
Sultan Qaboos University
Masters’ Student/ 2014
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2.  Introduction
 Task
 Process
 Evaluation
 Conclusion
 Teacher’s Page

3.  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!

4. 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.

5. 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:
 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

6. Step 2: Assign each member of your team to one
of these roles:
1. A researcher about places to visit
2. A researcher about activities to do
3. A researcher about famous places to eat in
4. A researcher about famous hotels and resorts
5. A researcher about the destination’s history
and culture
Now, each member of the team go through the
websites and find information about her topic.

7. 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.

8. Step 4:
1. Assign your team members to these roles:
a. Two writers
b. Two designers
c. One presenter
Note: 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.

9. 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.

10. Excellent (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

11. 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?

12.  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 writing
2. Developing students’ persuasive skills, research skills and
planning skills
3. Exposing students to different cultures
4. Offering students with a career they may add to their future
job list
 This web quest should be taught in 5 lessons.