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WEB QUEST: ENGLISH GRAMMAR

INTRODUCTION

In order to help students to understand English Grammar better I will design an activity that seems attractive and easily understandable. Grammar would seem very boring if we only teach it as it is usually taught and many students would claim that study grammar is horrible. In this web quest I will propose a revision of the main points of grammar that should be already learnt by the students. This activity will be addressed to the students of the first year of Bachillerato that have an advanced level in English. So this web quest has a theoretical part in which there is an explanation of the differences uses of each one (reported speech, passive voice, IF clauses and gerund and infinitive), and a practical one, in which there are some exercises to practice the different uses.

TASK

First of all, the class will be divides into 4 groups. Each group will have a theme that they have to choose or will be done by drawing lots.
When each group has its theme they will be given some resources to read the theory and others to do the exercises. After doing them, they will expose to the rest of the class what their conclusions are and the main characteristics of these points given.

PROCESS

The pupils have to choose between these topics:

· Reported speech
· Passive voice
· IF clauses
· Gerund and infinitive.

After being assigned with one topic they have to read the theory and make sure that all of them understand it. After that, they will have some exercises to do that will be given to the teacher who will evaluate them.
Each group has to do a power point presentation exposing the main characteristics of their topic. These presentations will be done one a day, so the other students have to take notes and show them to the teacher who will evaluate them as part of the final mark. Finally the partners will evaluate the work of the group that does the presentation; of course, this mark will be taken into account but will not be determinant.

RESOURCES

The teacher will give some written resources to the pupils that can be theory or practice but he/she will give also some internet links in order the students get used to use the computer to study.
· Reported speech
o Grammar:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar_list/reported.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech
o Exercises:
http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/report.html
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/lenguajeindirecto/unit21.htm
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/lenguajeindirecto/unit22.htm

· Passive voice
o Grammar:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar_list/passiv.htm
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/passivevoice.html
o Exercises:
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/vozpasiva/unit19.htm
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/vozpasiva/unit20.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm

· IF clauses
o Grammar:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar_list/if.htm
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/if-clauses.html
o Exercises:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/if-clauses.html
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences

· Gerund and infinitive.
o Grammar:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar_list/gerund_infinitiv.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/gerinf.htm
o Exercises:
http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/gerundioeinfinitivo/unit27.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz97mkm.htm

EVALUATION

The evaluation will be done as a percentage and the higher mark will be 100%. The most important one is the presentation because the pupils will dedicate more time to this activity.
EXERCISES: 20%
PRESENTATION: 60%
PARTNERS EVALUATION: 10 %
NOTES TAKEN IN CLASS: 10%

CONCLUSION

At the end of this activity the students are supposed to understand the main points of English Grammar. These kinds of activities will help the students to memorize better the rules of grammar and the opportunity to interact with other students. Besides, these activities will result much more attractive for the students and it is likely that they will pay more attention to those partners that are speaking that to the teacher. On the other hand, the students will be grateful if they are given a different via to explain grammar in a different way. This is a good way to make students feel comfortable with English and also to bring this language next to them.