We expect to form a European football team (10 partners) and develop football matches across the year using the same football. Each of the schools involved will choose its national football player – an active football player - whose biography they will develop in English. The football player has to fill the football position allocated to his country: goalkeeper x 1; defenders x 3; midfielders x 3 and strikers or forwards x 3. In the matches 7 footballers will play at a time. The girls will form the cheerleaders’ group. A logo will be created and voted among the schools involved, and various ICT/Web 2.0 tools will be used in order to keep track of the ball and the project: blog, videos, podcasts, PowerPoints, texts, drawings, pictures, digital photos, etc.

• Subjects: Art, Foreign Languages, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature, Music, Physical Education
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 9 - 16
• Tools to be used: e-mail, Forum, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Virtual learning environment (communities, virtual classes, ...), Web publishing
• Aims: Students' aims: - Develop the idea of European citizenship - Promote intercultural communicative competence through football - Learn English in a meaningful way -... read moreStudents' aims: - Develop the idea of European citizenship - Promote intercultural communicative competence through football - Learn English in a meaningful way - Motivation to learn foreign languages - Increase awareness for the benefits of sports - Develop ICT skills - Foster team work and collaboration among fellow classmates and partners. Teachers' aims: - Develop the idea of European citizenship - Promote intercultural communication competence - Improve English communication skills in a meaningful way - Increase awareness for the benefits of sports - Develop ICT skills - Foster team work and collaboration among fellow co-workers and partners. hide
• Work process: 1. Each partner school will choose its national football player – an active football player - whose biography they will develop.... read more1. Each partner school will choose its national football player – an active football player - whose biography they will develop. 2. All schools involved in the project will present a logotype (Arts teachers) which will then be voted by all pupils involved (later in the project it will be used in the football team’s T-shirts and other project materials). 3. At the back of the T-shirt, each school will have to print the name of the 10 chosen European football players. A name for each T-shirt - so that each school will have the same European football team. 4. The girls will also print a T-shirt as they will form the cheerleaders' group. 5. Each school partner will develop the project using various ICT/Web 2.0 tools which will then be posted in the Twinspace: videos, podcasts, PowerPoints, texts, drawings, pictures, digital photos, etc. 6. Each school will also organise an interview for one of the project’s football player and the school representing that player will have to answer. All the interviews will be posted in the TwinSpace. 7. Before the matches, the schools will elaborate collaboratively a common guide with a set of rules for the football matches. 8. A football ball is bought and each country will organise a football match. The idea is to video record each football match with the players using the T-shirts and with the ball that will go to all the countries involved in the project by post. During the match, the referee will use the yellow and red cards prepared in the Art class. 9. The match can only occur after receiving the ball that has to be signed by each partner school and then sent to the following country. At the end the ball returns back to the starting point, Portugal. 10. At the same time, a blog will be created in order to document all the football matches. The idea is to record the ball travelling to each match! After each match a representative from the respective school/country/partner should write a blog entry as if the ball was writing, and add some photos and/or film footage that the ball could have obtained from spectators. hide
• Expected results: 1. Have pupils more motivated to learn and improve their English skills. 2. Arise a sense of European belonging. 3. Discover real and meaningful ways... read more1. Have pupils more motivated to learn and improve their English skills. 2. Arise a sense of European belonging. 3. Discover real and meaningful ways to communicate in foreign languages. 4. Doing sport during your entire lifetime can be a source for your well being generally speaking, including longevity. 5. When you are at school, playing football or being a cheerleader means being part of a team, with respect for the one next to you. 6. Become more familiar with web 2.0 tools. hide

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