Students learn English sharing about Their Favourite Trees and performing plays about Trees In Danger.

• Subjects: Art, Biology, Drama, Environmental Education, Foreign Languages, Informatics / ICT, Mathematics / Geometry, Natural Sciences
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 11 - 12
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Twinspace, Web publishing
• Aims: -Learn their English with the purpose of sharing it with the other European students. -Motivate students to learn English and... read more-Learn their English with the purpose of sharing it with the other European students. -Motivate students to learn English and Biology through contextualized tasks. -Make students aware of the importance of looking after the trees. -Celebrating the International Year of the Forests 2011 within the Milleniium Objective of ensuring environmental sustainability. -Use and improve the ICT tools in class and at home for exchanging information with the partner school. hide
• Work process: Students will be paired to one in the other school. There are 26 Spanish and 27 German, so each Spanish... read moreStudents will be paired to one in the other school. There are 26 Spanish and 27 German, so each Spanish students would have a German students except for one who would have two German pals. Each student would prepare two power points presentations for his/her pair in the other country, which would be given as “presents”. First Present: Telling about myself. November and December. It should include: name, age, family, physical and personality description, favourite things (colour, month….) Students may include answers to these questions: Where are you from? What is the name of your city, town or village? How old are you? When is your birthday? What languages do you speak? What’s your favourite colour? What’s your favourite month? What’s your favourite day of the week? What’s your favourite food? What’s your favourite sport? What’s your favourite animal? What’s your favourite music? What are your hobbies? Do you like your hometown or your country? What do you like about it? Have you got any brothers or sisters? What are their names? How old are they? Do you like taking part in this etwinning project? Why? Include questions about the other school or town or country? Students add pictures to their power point presentation. Second present: My favourite tree. From January to April. - Teachers explain about local trees first. Teachers distribute the trees in their area to the different students. Each student makes a file about their tree. The Spanish school is visiting the Botanic garden with the biology teachers and English teachers. Our language assistants would come with us. The German students will choose a tree in their area to do their files. The file should include several pictures: one of the whole tree with a person as a reference in the picture, another of the tree where you can see where in the city or countryside it is placed, the final picture of the leaf or/and flower. - Spanish students who travel to London next spring 2012 will also make a file about trees in London. They would have to include the information in their trip notebook. After the trip, they will prepare a presentation and upload it to the twinspace. - The German teacher will hopefully be in London on the same days. We shall exchange physical etwinning presents there. - The file format would be the result of the common work of all the participating areas with the help of our language assistants. We will do it in English. Biology teachers will decide the main format. Maths teachers will include questions about the geometrical shapes of the chosen tree. The art teachers will advise students on the best way to shoot the pictures. - All the files will take part in a contest and we will exhibit them at the schools. Prizes will be awarded. - The files will be part of an album. 3. My class performances. From December to May. Each school performs the plays at their school, each school records them with a video camera and upload them to the twinspace. Our language assistants have recorded the plays in MP3 so students can practise the pronunciation and rhythm of the sentences in class and at home. Parents and other classes will attend the performances. hide
• Expected results: Three presents: -Present number 1: A personalised introduction of each student to another student in the other country. -Present number 2: Each... read moreThree presents: -Present number 1: A personalised introduction of each student to another student in the other country. -Present number 2: Each school performs two theatre sketches about the trees: The Tree and the Woodcutter” and “The Drying Tree”. -Trees Albums on the twinspace. hide

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