WEB QUEST
Designed by:
Frances Marie C. Villalon [email protected]
Lanemm Glee L. Baga- [email protected]
I. Introduction
This web quest challenges students to review the parts of speech. It allows students to strengthen their technology skills, exercise their creativity, practice their research skills, appreciate the complexity of their language, experience the fun of language, and visit resource sites to discriminate between different parts of speech. Students will experiment with parts of speech and improve their communication skills by using the computer to drill, practice, review, and explore new vocabulary. When practicing language, there is no better audience than a real and appreciative audience. Finally students will demonstrate their new or improved knowledge of the parts of speech by answering some the best activities we provide in this web quest. Students will become more articulate. They will evaluate their capacity in providing the part of speech in a sentence. Maybe students want to be a salesperson, and a designer, or work in politics. Students might just want to get a "1" in English. All of the activities presented in this Web Quest will be highly valuable to students all of their lives. Remember students will be using communication skills their entire lives. The new century has provided us with even more opportunity to converse with each other freely. With these new opportunities comes the responsibility to converse appropriately and adequately.
This is a fun and motivating process to teach and review parts of speech with your students. You are offered an opportunity to understand how parts of speech fit together to form sentences which then form great stores. Together, teacher and students, will work together to arm themselves with a talent for identifying and using different parts of speech to strengthen thinking skills and communication skills.
This quest challenges you to investigate and review the parts of speech. What are they? How English language so powerful to create the need for these?
II. The “Q” and “A”
· Differentiate the different parts of speech and give one example in each part.
· Examine how people use part of speech in their daily lives.
· Make a poem of your own and after making it, try to distinguish the different parts of speech present in that poem.
Abovementioned are the question you have to dig for an answer. We can help in answering those questions by giving some activities which will cater your knowledge about the queries.
The Task: Save the Hooshies!
This game is originally designed for an English project. Verbatron the most feared robot in the galaxy is going around capturing innocent little hooshies from their six homelands. The hooshies king, king Hooshie has left his people to die. Your mission is to defeat Verbatron and save the hooshies.
· Verbatron is holding the words which you will have to select one in answering the question.
· The questions are all about the parts of speech and you can find it in the box. You have to choose the correct answers so that you will save the hooshies. Remember, your task is to save the hooshies from the evil verbatron.
· You’re given 10 seconds to answer one question. In every part of speech there are three questions.
· You can analyze the question by three’s. So, in one group there should be three members.
· Be careful in answering the questions because you might lose a turn.
What are you waiting for? Start the game now! You can do that by clicking the underlined words below.
III. Resources
We know that it’s hard for you to answer question which you don’t have any background at all. We’re providing some learning sites to help you carry out the task and in answering the question
Game aquarium (parts of speech)
http://web.infoave.net/~tnorris/toc.html
This link has links to all the various parts of speech.
Writing Wacky
Web Tales
This is a great place to review parts of speech and
writing great stories!
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~collberg/Research/writing.html
Writing resources for parts of speech and punctuation
Parts
of speech song (Maybe students could write one?)
http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/parts_speech_song.html
A
specific lesson plan for reviewing parts of speech with the group
http://www.niu.edu/acad/english/wac/lesson1f.html
Other Resources for the teacher
Grammar
Quizzes for checkups
Writing Links
Grammar Ideas
and Lessons
The Parts of
Speech Song Lyrics
Book
Resources
IV. Evaluation
|
Criteria for Grading |
Points |
|
Alertness/ quickness |
25 points |
|
Intellectual capacity |
50 points |
|
Accuracy |
25 points |
|
Total |
100 points |
V. Conclusion
Language is very important to us especially in communicating with others. From the activity that we had made, do you learn something? Has this activity influenced your view of parts of speech in your daily life?
Parts of speech are necessary for all of us. We can create good sentences and we can communicate well. We conclude that good learning takes place in the experience or applying it to real life situation.