A Web Quest for 10th Grade
(Quantifiers)
Designed
by: Khaled Himmo
Khaled Bin Al-Waleed Secondary School
2006-2007
Task
Evaluation
Introduction
This short one
period webquest is designed to help students of 10th grade at Khaled
Bin Al-Waleed Secondary School understand and master the grammar mechanics of
using the eight quantifiers (much, many, a lot of, a few, a little, some, any
and no) related to the students’ English language text book (Jordan
Opportunity) applied in Jordanian schools for the 10th grade.
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Task
1.
Students
listen to a short introduction on the issue presented by the teacher.
2.
Students
work in three groups surfing three different sites to study the given
explanation and examples in each site; then, students do some quizzes on the
target quantifiers.
3.
Students
nominate a leader of each group to explain to the rest of the class what they
concluded and elicit the rule.
4.
Students
as a class do a comprehensive quiz on the 8 quantifiers and mail their answers
a long with the rubric to the teacher.
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Process
1. Teacher presents the
topic and explains the tasks. (Time: 10
minutes)
2. Group One:
Students of this group study the following information you find in (A) and form
your rule; then, do the quiz you find at the second site (B). (Time: 25
minutes)
A)
http://www.1-language.com/englishcourse/unit14_grammar.htm
B)
http://www.1-language.com/englishcourse/unit14_grammar_exs.htm
*Now list down some examples to explain your rule to the other students. (Time: 5 minutes)
3. Group Two: Students
of this group study the following information you find in (A) and form your
rule; then, do the quiz you find at the second site (B). (Time: 20 minutes)
(Time: 25 minutes)
A) http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/Determiners7b.cfm
C) http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/128.html
*Now
list down some examples to explain your rule to the other students. (Time: 5 minutes)
4. Group Three:
Students of this group study the following information you find in (A) and form
your rule; then, do the quiz you find at the second site (B). (Time: 25
minutes)
A) http://www.geocities.com/himmokhaled/Quantity#_Special_uses_of
B) http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/237.html
*Now list down some examples to explain your rule to
the other students. (Time: 5
minutes)
5. Each group leader explains and discusses the rule of
the group of quantifiers they studied with the rest of the class. (Time: 10 minutes)
Resources
q http://www.1-language.com/englishcourse/
q
http://www.usingenglish.com/
q
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/
q
http://www.geocities.com/himmokhaled/Quantity
Evaluation
1.
Throughout
the webquest, the students will receive checkpoint grades for the quizzes they
do. Each group will do one different quiz that tests the group of the quantity words
they studied. It is worth 10 points.
2.
As a final
evaluation each student will do a quiz on the eight quantifiers studied as a
homework activity that is prepared by the teacher at: http://www.geocities.com/himmokhaled/Quantity#_Neither_is_generally.
It is graded out of ten points. The total of the two quizzes equals 20
points.