Sketching a collaborative project

BE MY EUROPEAN FRIEND!

About the project
We want involve our 9-10 years old students in an exchange of traditional letters with different topics such as ‘This is me’, ‘My school’, ‘My city and my country’, etc. to practise their writing and reading skills. Meanwhile all topics can be issued online via web 2.0 tools. We are going to record videos, take photos or PowerPoint presentations to share information with our European friends on Twinspace.

AIMS

Improve our students' writing and reading skills.
Practise their oral skills.
Create new friendships.
Get information from other countries and learn about different cultures.
Raise students' motivation to learn foreign languages.

WORK PROCESS

The project will start in January 2016 and will last until June 2016.
At the end of every month we are going to send a packet full of pupils' letters about this topics:
January - topic : This is me. (introduce themselves to their penpals, name things they do everyday, after class activities, clubs,... – about 10 sentences)
February - topic: My school. (timetable, subjects, places, ...)
March – topic: My city and my country (monuments, buildings, an Easter customs...)
April – topic: My favourite pets and animals (descriptions and facts,... ).
May – topic: Likes and dislikes (what they like doing, eating, hobbies,...)
June - topic: Let's say goodbye to our European friends!
Meanwhile we can prepare other activities such as videos, video conferencing, sending photos, online quizes, PowerPoint presentations and share them on Twinspace.

EXPECTED RESULTS

At the end of the project:
Our pupils will be motivated to use English in real contexts.
They will improve their written and oral skills in English.
They will expand their knowledge of the world around them and make new friends.
Create an 'Our European friends' corner in their classroom.