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Introduction

Welcome: Our routines
Description: Educative WebQuest vocabulary
Grade Level: 1st year of Secondary school
Curriculum: Foreign Language
Author(s): Eva Prats

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Our routines Webquest! Are you ready to start? Let's enrich our vocabulary related to routines while reviewing the present simple tense and the adverbs of frequency previously explained.

'You'll never change your life until you change something you do dayly. the secret in your success is found in your daily routine'. John C. Maxwell

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret in your success is found in your daily routine'. John C. Maxwell

Task

What do you usually do everyday?

Do you realise that we repeat most of the actions we do everyday?

It is already time to start working with daily routines and enhance our vocabulary about this topic.

The aim of this WebQuest is to work on routines and write a story about your daily life.

Process

1- Your teacher is going to divide you in three groups of six people and one group of five people following your surname's alphabetical order.

2- Read this text and make a list about routines.

3- Now, think about this questions of you as a group:

1 What time do you get up?

2 Do you usually have a shower in the morning?

3 How do you go to the high school?

4 What time do you start the high school?

5 Where do you usually have lunch?

6 What do you have for lunch?

7 What time do you have dinner?

8 Who do you have dinner with?

9 What do you do in the evening?

10 What time do you go to bed?

4- Taking the answers of the previous questions and Lesley's day story into account, compile your own routines and write a short story about your daily life.

*You must also include the present simple tense and the adverbs of frequency following the information provided in your textbooks. If you need some further information, check the Resources section at the bottom of this page.

5- Finally, upload the story in the Aula Virtual.

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TO PRACTISE MORE:

http://www.montsemorales.com/vocabulario/Spot1vocab2.htm

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2559

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-8637.php

RESOURCES

Vocabulary:

http://www.vocabulary.cl/Lists/Daily_Routines.htm

https://www.google.es/search?q=vocabulary+routines&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ZWiNVM-mEMn_UIWLgcgM&ved=0CCkQsAQ

Dictionaries:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

http://www.wordreference.com/

Present simple:

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple.html

Story sample:

http://www.slideshare.net/monicaruizgutierrez/daily-routine-story

Evaluation

CRITERIA	ACCOMPLISHED	NOT ACCOMPLISHED	NEEDS TO BE IMPROVED
The group has considered the question “What do you usually do everyday?” exposed in the pre-task
The group has read about the Lesley's day text and has made a list about routines
The students have compiled their own routines and have written a short story about their daily life
The group has used the resources provided
The group has considered the post-task questions in the Conclusion section

Conclusion

Once your daily routines story has been created, think about these questions:

1. What have you learnt from the task carried out?

2. Has it been useful for you?

Teacher Page

Objectives:

The main purpose of this WebQuest is to increase the students vocabulary on habits and daily routines. In addition to this, the students have the chance to work in mixed groups and put their ideas in common. Besides, these students are also reviewing the grammar and the adverbs previously dealt. And finally, apart from learning English, they learn other aspects related to new technologies such as looking for information, using online dictionaries, doing exercises online, being familiarised with the Aula Virtual among others.

Contents:

Analysis of a text focusing on habits and routines.

Reflexion about their own habits.

Discussion between the students in the different groups

Writing a story.

Level required:

The students must be in the 1st year Secondary School.

Organisation:

Students must be divided in three groups of six people and one group of five people. Those groups are made by the teacher following the students surname's alphabetical order.

Time required:

This task is created to be completed in three sessions of fifty minutes each. In the first session the teacher will explain the task's development and will divide the students in different groups. In this session students should consider the section Task and carry out the activities 2 and 3 in the Process section.

In the second session, the students have to accomplish activity four. And finally, in the last session, they have to finish with activity four, upload it to the Aula Virtual and consider the questions presented in the Post-task.