Project description

Argument

In the 21^st century, when using the Internet to communicate has become easier and more available to all, children can get various information very easily, by accessing various programs and applications on their PCs or mobile phones.

That is why the teachers involved in this project have thought to coordinate their students’ activity of writing email messages, using English as a means of communication.

My European Penfriends is a project meant to bring students from Romania and Spain closer together by exchanging emails with information about themselves and their close environment (family, friends, school, town, country, hobbies, pets, etc.)

Our students will benefit from amusing, interesting and useful activities, and in the meantime they will learn how to use English and email writing to succeed correct and decent communication with their peers, which can prepare them for life.

 Aim and objectives:

The Aim of the project is to encourage our students to use English as a means to communicate with their peers from Spain

Objectives:

- Improving the students’ English

-Improving our students’ self-esteem and opening their minds to be able to fight against any kind of discrimination

- Making a cultural exchange among our students, learning about Romanian and Spanish cultures, their social and cultural values and the way of life in the two countries.

- Making friends with the students from our partner school.

 Activities

The activities of writing emails will take place in the ICT labs, under close supervision of the teachers. They will take place each week during the school year.

Expected Results:

- Improving the students’ English

-Improving our students’ self-esteem and opening their minds to be able to fight against any kind of discrimination

-Making a cultural exchange among our students, learning about Romanian and Spanish cultures, their social and cultural values and the way of life in the two countries.

- Making friends with the students from our partner school.

Themes for the emails:

- Presentation. They can write about their physical appearance, likes and dislikes, the subjects they study, their favorite ones, their family and pets

-  Our Town. We will show the town where we live (we will include some pictures, maps)

-  Our school. We will show how our school is.

- ELECTRONIC GADGES. Students will tell their new friends which gadgets they own and where they use them, when (usually, often, sometimes...) and what they use them for

- Sports. They talk about their favorite sport, also the sports like watching on TV, they can name the most popular sports in our region or country.

-  Animals. They can talk about their favorite pet, or about the animals in the area we live.

- Professions. They could explain what they want to be when they are older and why, or the job of their parents or the job of someone famous, and his/her career, for instance.

- Past times. We will tell our new friends about the past history in our town or area. We can include some pictures from internet or from real antique objects.

- Free time activities. The students can tell their peers what they do in their free time.

- Food. We will name our typical products and popular dishes in our region.

-Festivals. We will explain our most traditional celebrations and what people do during them.

End products:

-          email messages,

-          the project blog

-          satisfaction questionnaire, for evaluation purposes

-          photos

-          drawings, etc.

Evaluation of the activities will be made based the questionnaire of satisfaction and on the photos and other products.

Dissemination will be made through the project blog, on Facebook, on the schools’ websites and in the local mass media.

Period: school year 2014 – 2015  

Partners:

CEIP Sagrado Corazon, CAlle Maestro Espada s/n, LIbrilla (Murcia), Espana

Scoala Gimnaziala „Vasile Alecsandri” Baia Mare, Romania

Project team:

prof. Mariola Modino Garabito, CEIP Sagrado Corazon, CAlle Maestro Espada s/n, LIbrilla (Murcia), Espana

Initiator: prof. Daniela Buda 
prof. Nicoleta Onea (English teachers), Octavian Pop and Raluca Salajan (IT teachers) Scoala Gimnaziala „Vasile Alecsandri” Baia Mare, Romania