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Christmas in our countries
SlovakiaItalyRomaniaLatvia Romania
eTwinning project plan
Alessandra Livia Inga Giuseppina Nick Magda
Details:
Age of the pupils: 15 - 18 Used language: English Duration: 6 weeks (November - December) School type: secondary school
Short description:
• Presentation and discussion of similarities and differences in celebrating Christmas.
• Pupils prepare small leaflets/videos/glogsters with the basic information about the Christmas traditions in their country.
• They also exchange their favourite Christmas dish recipes.. Students publish their favourite Christmas wishes.Students collect and share the lyrics of traditional or popular Christmas songs
• Using power point presentation, students from partner schools will illustrate their own christmas traditional culinary specialties.
Goals get acquainted with Christmas traditions in other countries. compare traditions from cultures different from yours;
practise a foreign language;
use ICT tools to create presentations and/or interactive posters find the link between cultural context and different ways to express feelings and emotions concerning Christmasimprove interest and respect towards cultural diversities.students will convey feelings and emotions related to religious celebration of Jesus Nascence's, illustrating them with: drama, photographs, essays, Power- Point presentation or through the Forum of section Twinspace.
Working methods:
1. students get to know each other using a forum on the Twinspace2. students start a blog on the Twinspace where they illustrate how Christmas is usually celebrated in their country and in their schools;3. students start a blog where they express their Christmas wishes; they also produce their own Christmas wishes postcards.4. students use a wiki on the twinspace in order to write about Christmas in their country - traditions, usage, recipes;
5. their partners add comments to the wikis and ask questions6. students collect all the information they get from the wikis and prepare a video or an interactive poster - glog - in order to illustrate what they have learnt;7. students comment on blogs or on a forum the work they have done8. the students’ works are published on the twinspace
ICT tools:
twinspace: forum, blog,wikivideo (Voicethread, GoAnimate);Glogsteroffice software: PowerPoint, Movie Maker, Publisher