2. Partners: Slovakia Italy Latvia Romania
Age of the pupils: 15 - 18
Language: English
Duration: 6 weeks (November - December)
School type: secondary
3. GOALS
Getting acquainted with Christmas traditions in other countries;
comparing traditions from cultures different from ours;
finding the link between cultural context and different ways to express
feelings and emotions concerning Christmas;
improving interest and respect towards cultural diversities.
using ICT tools to create presentations and/or interactive posters;
practising a foreign language
4. Pedagogical basis: - project work
- collaborative learning
- critical thinking
- crosscurricular approach
- active learning
6. Working methods:
1. students get to know each other using a forum on the Twinspace
2. students start a blog on the Twinspace where they illustrate how
Christmas is usually celebrated in their country and in their schools;
3. students start a blog where they express their Christmas wishes;
they also produce their own Christmas wishes postcards.
4. students use a wiki on the twinspace in order to write about
Christmas in their country - traditions, usage, recipes;
7. 5. their partners add comments to the wikis and ask questions
6. students collect all the information they get from the wikis and
prepare a video or an interactive poster - glog - in order to illustrate
what they have learnt;
7. students comment on blogs or on a forum the work they have done
8. the students’ works are published on the twinspace
