2. In October a group of
students from our school
visited the Czech Republic.
We loved the whole trip,
from the long, but not tiring
at all train ride, to the long
nights spent with our new
friends from Sweden, Turkey
and Czech Republic.
3. When we came back to Poland, we wanted to share our experiences with other
people, so of course we took the opportunity to pretend we are teachers and
present the Comenius project to the students from elementary school.
4. We brainstormed about how the lessons were going to look and this is
how we decided to do it:
5. First of all we told the kids
what Comenius was and how
our school participates in it.
Then, we presented some
facts about the four countries
that we are collaborating
with: Sweden, Turkey, Czech
Republic and Lithuania.
6. The last part of the presentation
was the most exciting one, both
for us and the kids. We looked
up a few animals in each native
language of the countries taking
part in the project. After writing
the name of the animal on the
blackboard and reading it out
loud to the kids, we asked for a
couple of volunteers who
wanted to try and guess the
meaning of the foreign word
and drawing the animal on the
blackboard.
7. We weren't sure if the
students will want to
cooperate and take part in
this little contest, so we were
shocked by the amount of
them wanting to volunteer! If
someone got the animal
right, they got one point that
we added to their final score
of the quiz, which was the
final part of our visit in the
elementary school.
8. For the youngest students, from 4th grade, we prepared an additional
attraction: we let them taste ’Lazenske Oplatky’ - a traditional czech cookie that
we bought while we were in Czech Republic.
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9.
10. The quiz contained
questions about the culture
of the four countries we
presented, there even was an
additional task for the most
ambitious kids: they had to
write down all the new
English words that they had
learned that day during our
lesson.
11. After checking the tests, we found out that almost all kids had excellent results,
so most of them obtained a special prize, which we handed them personally by
the end of that week.
12.
13. All in all the presentations
were a big success, the kids
found out more about the
countries from the Comenius
project and we hope we
encouraged them to join the
project in the future :) We
hope we will be given the
chance to do this more often,
as we thought it’s a lot of fun
for us and for the audience
we were presenting to :)
