The fairy tales, legends beeing on the pupils life. Describing the fairy tales, legends comparing and learning about other countries. In this way, Pupils use and learn the foreign language in a creative and a communicative way and learn more about other cultures. In the beginning our students will present themselves, their class, town and country (e-mails, chats, forum, and PowerPoint presentation). Then they will collect and exchange interesting story (information on life, proverbs, legends, riddles, poems) and finally they will put the information into practice preparing a book of fairy tale, a film with a play(theatre ) propose by the each school (the use of Windows Movie Maker), interviews with writers of books (if they be in town), a calendar with drawings or pictures of the fairy tales, legends , readed poems from this summer , create a story.The project including a wide range of motivating activities will provide a non-artificial context for interaction and communication, allowing pupils to form friendships with foreign peers, boost their vocabulary and communication skills. What is more, it will help to widen their knowledge of new technologies, Language and Literature, environmental education, foreign languages, geography, History of Culture, Informatics / ICT as well as increase their self-confidence.

• Subjects: Art, Cross Curricular, Drama, Foreign Languages, Language and Literature, Primary School Subjects
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 12 - 15
• Tools to be used: e-mail, Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
• Aims: - To get to know each other and promote international friendship - To enhance the interest for book reading. -To develop a... read more- To get to know each other and promote international friendship - To enhance the interest for book reading. -To develop a good glibness (expressios) in others language, and in our language -to be able to reciclate the paper. - To raise the attention for legend, traditione, poems. - To select, evaluate important information and present their outcomes. - To learn how to create presentations and films and teach other. - To become familiar with web-based communication and collaborative tools. They will be able to choose a favorite writer and recommend it to colleagues based on his/her literature - To improve English in real communication . hide
• Work process: September 2010 - getting acquainted with TwinSpace tools - familiarizing the students with eTwinning and the aims of our project October... read moreSeptember 2010 - getting acquainted with TwinSpace tools - familiarizing the students with eTwinning and the aims of our project October 2010 - getting to know each other (PowerPoint presentations, chat, forum) - collect and exchange interesting story (information on life, proverbs, legends, riddles, poems) November 2010 - writing "a stories” December 2010 - preparing a calendar with drawings or pictures of the fairy tales, legends , poems . January 2011 - organizing a competition for the most interesting calendar. February 2011 - interviews with writers of books (if they be in town) from the partner countries (questions appear in Forum until April 2011) March 2011 - preparing a film: a film with a play(theatre ) propose by the each school (the use of Windows Movie Maker) , I propose the costume made by recyclable materials. April 2011 - organizing a competition for the most interesting story create by the pupils. May 2011 -put the information into practice preparing a book of story. hide
• Expected results: - good knowledges of some authors tales, proverbs, legends, riddles, poems a better social life through interfering with students from... read more - good knowledges of some authors tales, proverbs, legends, riddles, poems a better social life through interfering with students from other countries, a virtual page congaing the work results. -a powerpoint including writing, calendar, book, pictures and photographs produced by the children from difrent countries. - Select a fairytale, decide on the presentation of the fairytale, prepare the costumes and scenery, record the presentation, turn the presentation into digital form, compare the files from different schools, comment. A performance of the story for school and parents to watch. hide

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