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!
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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
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