Hot Spot 2 Webquest 1

Hot Spot 2

‘School trip’ Webquest

The best time to use this Webquest is at the end of module 5.

Part 1: Before you visit your first website, do exercise 1:

Exercise 1

1. Last year, Todd and his class went on a school trip to a famous city. Do you know where they went? Read this diary entry, and complete the shaded gap with the name of the city. Choose the city from the box.

Barcelona Melbourne New York Paris Tokyo Toronto Venice

Diary Our school trip to ______. Tuesday 5:30. We arrived at the airport. From the airport, we took a ‘bus’ to the city centre. The bus was actually a boat called a ‘vaporetto’! Our hotel is fantastic and has a beautiful view of the Grand Canal. Wednesday 9:30. After breakfast we walked over a bridge called the Rialto Bridge, and saw a famous fish market. Then we walked to St Mark’s Square and visited the Doge’s Palace. It was amazing!

2. Is the city that Todd’s class visited in: (a) Australia, (b) Canada, (c) France, (d) Italy, (e) Japan, (f) Spain or (g) the USA?

3. Which language do people in that country speak? Is it (a) English, (b) French, (c) Italian, (d) Japanese or (e) Spanish?

4. How do people say ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’ in that country? Do they say (a) bonjour, (b) ciao, (c) g’day, (d) hi, (e) Konichiwa or (f) hola ?

Now go to this website and check your answers to exercise 1, then do exercises 2 and 3: http://pbskids.org/buster/blog/it_venice_bl.html

Exercise 2

(1) How many cars are there in the city? (2) How do people travel around? (3) What food do young people like eating? (4) What is Murano? (4) What do people make on Murano?

Exercise 3

Click on the ‘Watch’ key and watch the video. Answer these questions.

(1) What happens in a fornace? (a) People cook food (b) People make glass objects (c) People sell souvenirs (2) What is the temperature like in a fornace? (a) It’s cold (b) It’s cool (c) It’s very hot (3) What is glass made from? (a) silica sand (b) rocks and stones (c) metal (4) Is it easy to make glass? (a) No, it’s very difficult (b) Yes, it’s quite easy (c) Yes, it’s very easy

Just for fun….

Go back to the blog and click on the ‘Listen’ key to hear a song. Do you like it?

Part 2. Now go to this website and do exercises 4, 5 and 6: http://venice.destinations.starwoodhotels.com/kids.htm

Exercise 4

Here are some things you can do in Venice. Complete each sentence with one or two words only.

(1) You can see some colourful little ______on Burano Island. (2) You can visit the beautiful ______on Torcello Island. (3) In summer, you can eat delicious, cold ______. (4) In winter, you can drink delicious hot ______. (5) You can see ships and boats at the Naval ______. (6) You can see lots of fish at the Rialto fish ______. (7) You can play in the sea at the beautiful ______on Lido island. (8) You can have lots of fun in the ______at Aqualandia Park. (9) You can watch a ______at Penza Stadium. (10) You can go for a ride along the Grand Canal on a ______called a ‘gondola’. (11) You can climb a ______for a great view of the city. (12) You can see lots of ______in St Mark’s Square.

Exercise 5

What else can you do in Venice? Write three sentences below.

(1) ______(2) ______(3) ______

Exercise 6

Imagine you have just one day in Venice. Decide what you would do during that day. Talk about your ideas with a classmate. Would you do the same things? With your classmate, write a plan below:

Morning: ______Afternoon: ______Evening: ______

Part 3. Now go to this website and do exercises 7 and 8: http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/polo.html

Exercise 7

Marco Polo was a Venetian (someone who comes from Venice). He was born in 1254 and became a famous traveller. These sentences about his life all contain a mistake. Find and correct the mistake in each sentence.

(Example: Marco Polo travelled to Mongolia and Japan. _Marco Polo travelled to Mongolia and China .______)

(1) He became famous for a letter he wrote about his journey. ______

(2) He left Venice when he was 15 years old. ______

(3) He travelled with his father and his mother. ______

(4) He was away from Venice for 42 years. ______

(5) People went to his home in Venice to see his pictures of his journey. ______

(6) ‘The journey of Marco Polo’ was a famous book about his journey. ______

(7) Marco Polo died in 1424. ______

Answers

Part 1

Exercise 1

1. Venice, 2. Italy, 3. Italian, 4. ciao

Exercise 2

1. None, 2. by boat, 3. pizza, 4. an island, 5. glass (objects)

Exercise 3

1. b, 2. c, 3. a, 4. a

Part 2

Exercise 4

1. (fisherman’s) houses, 2. cathedral, 3. ice cream, 4. chocolate, 5. Museum, 6. market, 7. beach, 8. water, 9. football game / match, 10. boat, 11. campanile / bell tower, 12. pigeons / birds

Exercise 5

Your students should find a lot of other things to do in Venice (e.g., go to the carnival, visit the Peggy Guggenheim museum, etc). They should write complete sentences for their answers, using the sentence structures practised in Exercise 4.

Part 3

Exercise 7

(1) He became famous for a book he wrote about his journey. (2) He left Venice when he was 17 years old. (3) He travelled with his father and his uncle. (4) He was away from Venice for 24 years. (5) People went to his home in Venice to hear his stories of his journey. (6) ‘The travels of Marco Polo’ was a famous book about his journey. (7) Marco Polo died in 1324.

Teacher’s notes for using search engines and links:

Part 1 Exercises 1 and 2 The pre-Webquest exercise sets the theme for the quest. Students will need to get number 1 correct if they are to get numbers 2, 3 and 4 correct. Some of Venice’s main attractions are mentioned in the diary entry for number 1, so you might want to show them some pictures of these (going to Google Images (http://images.google.co.uk/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi) and entering Venice Italy will bring up a large selection).

Students will find the answers to Exercises 1 and 2 by clicking on the first link and reading through the text. At this stage they should not click on any of the links on the web page. (The text is ‘written’ by Buster, the rabbit in the top picture. Binky and Arthur, referred to in the text, are presumably his friends back home).

Part 1 Exercise 3 Clicking on ‘Watch’ brings up a short video on glass-blowing. The transcript appears underneath the video as the characters speak, and in its entirety to the right of the video.

Clicking on the ‘Listen’ key brings up a song, which begins as soon as the link is accessed. The lyrics appear on the right of the screen. This task is just for fun - there isn’t much language to exploit - but you could ask your students if they understand (or can work out) the meanings of the Italian words (canali, grandissimo, bellissimo and magnifico).

Part 2 Exercises 4 and 5 This web page is really for adults, but is divided into smaller sections, and even weaker students should get the gist of each section from the pictures and some of the key words. The answers for Exercise 4 can all be found in the text, but are not in the same order: students will need to scroll up and down the page to find them. Your students might find alternative answers to those given above (for example, in number 8, they might choose pools or swimming pool instead of water). It doesn’t matter if students do not use exact words from the text, provided their answers are correct. Their answers for Exercise 5 can be taken directly from the text.

Part 3 Exercise 7 The information they need to correct their sentences can be found by scrolling down the page (their sentences are in the same order as the information in the text). Encourage your students to ask you about any key words they don’t understand (for example, conflict, captured and imprisoned in the fourth paragraph are important words if students are to understand this paragraph).