Starting from a research on their own cultural traditions, students and teachers write, adapt and rehearse a stage play in English, also including music and dance. National myths, legends, folk tales are taken to the stage and performed at one of the partner schools during the students visits. That final performance is the last step of a common task, in which a sense of cooperative work is developed among the partners. Let’s use traditions as a means of knowing and living each other’s culture, setting up a bridge for mutual understanding and opening a wide gate for tolerance.

• Subjects: Drama, Foreign Languages, History, Language and Literature, Music
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 11 - 15
• Tools to be used: Chat, e-mail, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Web publishing
• Aims: Using drama as a tool for mutual understanding. Using English as a tool for communication, without excluding a basic knowledge... read moreUsing drama as a tool for mutual understanding. Using English as a tool for communication, without excluding a basic knowledge of the partners’ languages. Valorising each country’s culture. Fighting racial/cultural/sex prejudice and topics. hide
• Work process: Prior to the performances and parallel to the work on drama, both ITC technologies and ordinary mail are used on... read morePrior to the performances and parallel to the work on drama, both ITC technologies and ordinary mail are used on a first stage in order to achieve a mutual knowledge among students and to coordinate the teachers’ work. A school correspondence activity is set up among the student groups. A theatre play on a legend, myth or fork tale is prepared at every school. Depending on the number of partners, one or two student visits are organized every school year. On that visits all the plays are rehearsed and finally performed in a joint session. Families, parents associations, local authorities and other social agents are included and take an active role in the project. hide
• Expected results: A deeper understanding of each other’s culture. A better use of English as an international communication language. A greater personal... read moreA deeper understanding of each other’s culture. A better use of English as an international communication language. A greater personal development of the students involved and of the rest of the school community. hide

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