IInd year Schedule
Preparatory phase
September - November 2011
1) Brainstorming on E.U. values and citizenship in class as a preparatory activity to twinning between Italy and Turkey;
2) Encouraging groups to take digital pictures either of their neighbourhood, or of their area of origin;
Beginning phase ( December 2011 - February 2012)
3) Taking pictures of the neighbourhood the students live in;
4) Organizing the digital pictures in a ppt;
5) Searching on the internet for information on the partner countries;
6) Making reports on the partner country in their exercise books, studying the content and reporting it in mini-lectures in class;
Intermediate phase (March 2012 - April 2012)
7) Site updating: ppts will be put online by teachers.
8) Debating in class on the two countries: observing pictures of Italy and Turkey, connecting positive differences and similarities between the two partner countries;
9) Discussing in groups in English as the vehicular language and writing down personal group reports;
10) Handing in reports to the teachers for correction;
11) Returning reports to students for them to organize a ppt on the subject of: 'Italy/Turkey: a country worth visiting!'
12) Organizing a language ppt with the simulation of an easy conversation in Italian/Turkish which will be useful for students to communicate during the May 2012 video-conference in English as the vehicular language and Italian/Turkish as support languages;
Advanced phase (May 2012- December 2012)
13) Reports in the form of ppts will be published online
14) Videoconference among some of the students from Italy and Turkey
work in progress...: )