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Student exchanges are quite often in our
schools. That has been the starting point of our webquest. The final production
will be a travel guide that can be used as a tool to learn and know our
country.
The process of the work in this WQ can be
made only in one language, although, in fact, the process gains its global
meaning if the students do all the activities arisen in the other webquests,
because the three ones we present here (in Basque, Spanish, and English) are
part of a material prepared to work together in the Program of an Integrated
Treatment of Languages.
The chosen genre for the creation of these
WQ has been the expository (expositive) in the case of Spanish and English and
the narrative (writing of biographies) in the case of Basque.
The final production, the complete guide
with all its chapters, should be modified depending on the coming students'
mother tongue as long as we can use it as authentic material (translation into
English, French ...)
Our main aim is to produce a common
material that can be worked with in the different subject in a coordinated way
so as that we can make profitable the students' learning and susceptible of
modification depending on the students involved.
All the teachers involved in the project
must coordinate their work, set the timing and the way to face the activities in
the different processes and choose who will be the person in charge of giving it
a final layout.
In the Spanish classes the students will prepare the
programme of the visits to the different places in the Basque Country. They will
work the expository text of descriptive nature.
In the English classes the students will create the part
related to useful information, addresses, timetables. So, the texts will be
expository of instructions.
In the Basque classes they will write
biographies of famous people (sportsmen and sportswomen, writers, artists ...) and
then, they will work the narrative genre with an objective nature.
Timing: from five to seven lessons
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