eTwinning Visibility Newsletter no. 3 eTwinning Visibility Newsletter no. 3 | Page 46

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Neighbour project was a wonderful experience that has helped us in many ways! Thank you, eTwinning! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As such, the best way to make a student want to get involved in the process of exploring the depths of English or French is to make your class - your subject - fun. I am not saying you should skip the hours that are supposed to be devoted to exercises just because we are already pretty much tired of those - they are helpful; vital, really - but every now and then, a bit of actual, verbal interaction with others is wonderful and it develops our communication skills faster. Be creative! Be innovative! My teacher is, and that is probably one of the main reasons I love English so much now. We get involved in all kinds of projects - this one is the second eTwinning project that I worked for and it is a very rewarding experience. I know you get ideas like "I can make friends" or "I learn new things about different cultures" all the time, so I will flip the page for you and reveal a new one: Rainbow Village first raised awareness about the effects of pollution - the villagers discovered this land after the Earth had been destroyed. We are rational enough to realize that no magical ladder will emerge from underneath the water and save us when the Apocalypse hits. The Rainbow Village by Alina Cristea Learning a foreign language can be a terribly tedious job. It has been scientifically proven that, when it comes to this endeavour, we reach our maximum potential around the age of three; which is disconcerting, really, because we are obviously not three years old anymore. Add ten or eleven more to that and you are sentenced to a lifetime of frustration because your brain refuses to help you in this matter. Those tiny little wheels in our brains are furiously spinning towards all sorts of different goals- we already have enough on our plate, what with all the math homework and incredibly long compositions we have to write for other subjects. And then, by giving us the opportunity to build our own universe from scratch, not only did it help us apply 21st century skills to learning (which, at least in my country, does not happen all that often), but it made us figure out how to be the ideal 46