ETWINNING PROJECT

1. PROJECT DRAFT
PROJECT TITLE:“All around the world”
STUDENTS´AGE: 9-10 years old
AREAS: Foreign language,
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and others
PROJECT DURATION: one school year
KEY COMPETENCES:
-Languages
-Mathematics, scientific and technological
-Digitals
-Learning to learn
-Social and civil competences
-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship
-Cultural awareness and expression
ABSTRACT:
In this projects, the students involved, will have to introduce themselves and
the city where they live, sing a song in a karaoke version with students of
different countries, explain about Christmas and Easter, write an
autobiography, prepare a recipe, talk about the museums ,the weather, their
free time and their favourite place in the city
OBJECTIVES AND PRETENDED PRODUCTS:
OBJECTIVES
-Improve foreign language skills
-Working in teams with kids from other countries using different tools.
-Discover the English speaking countries and be in contact with children from
different
nationalities.
-Learning to write an autobiography
-Sing an prepare a dance for the song: All around the world
-Traditions at Christmas, Easter,

2. -The weather, the museums, the free time activities, your favourite place in
the city
- Use of new tools
CONTENTS
- Use basic comprehension strategies : active listening, reading images and
identification of known expressions and lexicon.
- Distinguishing types of understanding (general meaning , essential
information, main points ) .
- Interest in using English in different situations and confidence in one's
ability to understand it.
- Interest in learning about the countries where English is spoken .
- Interest in contact with children in those countries.
- Knowledge comity , daily habits ( meal times , meal types ) and lifestyles of
children of their age in different English-speaking countries ( school
environment , vacation , leisure activities , cities and rural areas , etc.).
Reflection on similarities and differences with us.
- Celebration of family celebrations , parties and community traditional
celebrations : Christmas ,Easter ,
- Recognition of expressions used in the different holidays .
- Rimas and traditional songs associated with the celebrations.
- Identify sociocultural aspects and basic , concrete and meaningful
sociolinguistic on everyday life (habits , schedules, activities, celebrations ) ,
living conditions (housing, environment ) , (family , friendship , school )
interpersonal relationships, behavior ( habitual gestures , use voice , physical
contact ) and social conventions ( comity ) , and apply the knowledge gained
on them to a proper understanding
- English communication with peers and with children and Anglophone girls
through the use of information and communications technology .
-Interest in writing clearly and with a good presentation to make the text
understandable.
- Writing , based on models, simple texts for communication with other
- Interest communicate in writing in English with peers and / or English-
speaking children and girls (through texts accompanied by drawings , pictures
, etc. ) .
EVALUATION
-Knowing and applying the most appropriate for understanding the general
sense basic strategies , essential information and the main points of the text.
-Apply graphic patterns and basic spelling conventions to write with
reasonable chastisement words or short phrases that are commonly used in
speech, but not necessarily a fully standardized spelling.

3. -Build on paper or electronically, very short and simple texts, simple phrases
compounds isolated in a neutral or informal register , using reasonably
accurately the basic spelling conventions and major punctuation ,
-Know basic sociocultural and sociolinguistic significant and apply them to a
written production appropriate to the context , respecting the basic rules of
courtesy
METHODOLOGY:
Throughout the project we will work using cooperative learning, PDI , videos
, video -conferencing and the use of some tools that will help us to work
together with our partners.
We will use the TwinSpace to communicate among partners.
PRODUCTS:
1- First , we will create together, a video presentation , who we are, our
interests , age, number of students in class.
2- Creating a logo that will be reflected in Twinspace .
3-Creating a booklet
4-Think of a poem
5-Write a letter
6.Video about the weather forecast
7-Create a Powtoon about the favourite places in city
8-Videoconference asking and answering some questions about Ester
9-Letters about holidays and create a big mural with the letters of the
different countries
10- The final product will be the creation of a dance that they will have to
show us in a video using vimeo as a tool.
PROCESS AND ACTIVITIES:
 ACTIVITY 1
 Title: Do you want to meet me?
 Type: National group
 Objective: Propitiate a first contact to know eachother.
By PowToon tool , we create a presentation of the group of students
who share in the first page of the Twinspace . We also know by
videoconference to do so, closer more real.
Moreover,we will use the zeeMaps tool to indicate which country we

4. are.
 ACTIVITY 2
 Title: Creating a Logo
 Type: Individual
 Objective: A logo and vote for the ones you like best
Professor will charge on the page in the Twinspace a voki with instructions ,
so that all project participants know what to do .
Before making a drawing, we use a tool called answergarden with the
question what logo you like for the project? and we will brainstorm .
Students individually conduct a drawing with a logo for the project. The
teacher will use the tool picture trail to show all the drawings. Students will
choose the winner of the class. The tutor hang the picture on the platform and
the photo of the winner of the class. The other participating teachers will do
the same .
 ACTIVITY 3
 Title: The recipe
 Type: international groups
 Objective: Create a booklet of recipes
By issuu tool prepare a booklet with recipes typical of all the countries
that participate in the project.
 ACTIVITY 4
 Title: Christmas
 Type: International groups
 Objective: Create a poem about Christmas

 A Turkey dinner at Christmas is great!
 THINK

5.  Somewhere... a boy with an empty plate.
 The Christmas tree lights shine red, green and gold.
 THINK
 Somewhere... a girl shivering and cold.
 Presents, and parties! Yes, that’s Christmas Day!
 THINK
 Somewhere...a baby asleep in the hay.
 For this exercise, you need to think about what you really enjoy about
Christmas, using lots of powerful verbs and adjectives. Then reflect
upon someone who isn’t as lucky as you and what they might be
experiencing.
 Remember, a poem doesn’t have to always rhyme; repetition can be
used to create a poem. This is where the repetitive use of ‘Think’ will
make a poem if it doesn’t rhyme.
What do you like about
Christmas?
What might be happening to
someone else around the
world?
Think
Think

6. Think
Think
We will use padlet to complete the table in international groups.
 ACTIVITY 5
 Title: Autobiography
 Type: National groups.
 Objective: Writing about the things that we did when we were 5.
The students will have to write about the thing that they did when they
were younger, about 5 using the structure 1,2,4 in cooperative learning.
 ACTIVITY 6
 Title: The weather
 Type: Individual
 Objective: Record a video indicating the weather
Each day, a student will explain the weather forecast that day. With all the
videos we will create a video using a tool and share in the Twinspace.
 ACTIVITY 7
 Title: What is your favourite place in the city?
 Type: National groups
 Objective: Write about the places in the city that you like the best

7. The students in cooperative groups will prepare a video with some
photos using powtoon in which they have to describe the place that they like
the best in the city and share in the Twinspace.
 ACTIVITY 8
 Title: Easter
 Type: National and international groups.
 Objective: know the usuals at Easter
The studens will prepare some murals about the typical things that we do
at Easter in cooperative groups. The students will prepare some questions
to ask later in the videoconference. Then, In a videoconference, we will
ask the other students some questions about Easter and they will ask some
questions to us. This parte, we will do it in cooperative groups.
 ACTIVITY 9
 Title: Holidays
 Type: Nacional Groups
 Objective: Share information about the holidays
Each school will write letters based on a script about what to do on
summer holidays and the places that they would like to visit
 ACTIVITY 10
Title: The dance
Type: Mixed Group
Objective:
-Learn the names of some countries
-Learn and sing a song “All around the world”
-Create a dance for the song and make a video to show the students in other
countries. Students from other countries will have to learn and share in the
Twinspace.
-Create cohesion in the group
-Increase self-esteem and self-concept
It is important before starting to work a good cohesion of the group to resolve
problems easily. So, to start with, we will listen the song all together. Then, I
will give them the song in a small piece of paper and they have to learn by

8. heart. Meanwhile, they can complete a crossword to learn the
countries.
Then, I will form two teams and they will organize to prepare a dance in
which all the students in the group have to participate. When the dance is
finished. They will be recorded and they will have to load the video in the
twinspace. Foreign partners will have to learn the dance and song and show
the result by sending us a video
This is the song:
ASSESSMENT :
I will continuously assess the students using observation and a rubric that
students will know about from the beginning of the project.

9. The project itself will be continuously evaluated.
Through online mySurveyLab tool we will evaluate the project by creating a
survey to collect project progress , collaboration partners , the skills acquired ,
if goals have been met , the degree of satisfaction of participating teachers ,
and the impact of the project in participants , families and schools.
The evaluation of students and activities , will be held by the end of
assessment rubrics each
MONITORING AND DIFFUSION:
Multiple pages are created in the Twinspace , one page per activity where all
participating members may follow and participate in the project.
Several teachers and students will be invited to follow the project on the
platform