About the project
Many major holidays, such as Halloween, Christmas, New Year’s
Eve, Easter, are celebrated in nearly every nation across Europe.
Nevertheless, food traditions and other cultural aspects tend to vary
from place to place. Our project aims to highlight which are the
cultural and culinary differences between how public holidays are
celebrated around Europe. Thus, following the structure of a calendar,
we will explore the world-famous events, local celebrations and public
holidays which take place throughout the year.
Aims
The main objective is that our students communicate in English
developing thus the language competence in the foreign language. We
intend to work the four skills, speaking, writing, reading and
listening. We want our students become aware of the need of using the
foreign language and how useful it can be. At the same time, our
students will improve their digital skills by using the Twinspace, the
mail, etc In addition we want our students get to know other cultures
and increase the feeling of European Citizenship. This will be
approached by the implementation of non-classical methodologies,
promoting creativity and innovation in the teaching and learning process
Work process
Participants are secondary English teachers who usually teach
their students about celebrations in UK. We want to start from this
common knowledge and then to share how people around Europe celebrate
public holidays and what they eat during their festive celebrations The
provisional schedule for all the activities to be done throughout the
year can be listed as follows:
September 2018: Nice to meet you!: The pupils introduce themselves to their penpals and talk about their schools.
October 2018: Happy Halloween! Do you celebrate Halloween at home? What are you going to do on Halloween?
December 2018: "Merry Christmas": exchange of Christmas cards between the different penpals. How do you celebrate Christmas? Talk about Christmas markets, parties, trees, presents, Christmas recipes.
January 2019: Happy New Year! New Year's Resolutions.
14 February 2019: Valentine’s Day.
March-April 2019: Saint Patrick's . Easter. Carnival. Easter recipes.
September 2018: Nice to meet you!: The pupils introduce themselves to their penpals and talk about their schools.
October 2018: Happy Halloween! Do you celebrate Halloween at home? What are you going to do on Halloween?
December 2018: "Merry Christmas": exchange of Christmas cards between the different penpals. How do you celebrate Christmas? Talk about Christmas markets, parties, trees, presents, Christmas recipes.
January 2019: Happy New Year! New Year's Resolutions.
14 February 2019: Valentine’s Day.
March-April 2019: Saint Patrick's . Easter. Carnival. Easter recipes.
Expected results
All the activities will be placed in different pages within the
Twinspace. At the end of the project students will have made Powerpoints
presentations, posters, videos
The expected results of doing such a project can be listed as follows:
- Having a better knowledge of European celebrations and different food.
- Increasing the pupils' s curiosity, open-mindedness and tolerance.
- Making new friends. - Improving the use of a foreign language.
- Improving the use of computer and internet tools
Project members
We are going to work with three other schools from Poland, Italy and Romania.
The teachers from Spain and Romania are the founders.
Our project was registered on
The expected results of doing such a project can be listed as follows:
- Having a better knowledge of European celebrations and different food.
- Increasing the pupils' s curiosity, open-mindedness and tolerance.
- Making new friends. - Improving the use of a foreign language.
- Improving the use of computer and internet tools
Project members
We are going to work with three other schools from Poland, Italy and Romania.
The teachers from Spain and Romania are the founders.
Our project was registered on