Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 75

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reading Roald Dahl together by Francesca Falconi https://twinspace.etwinning.net/26285/home This project has involved 4 secondary schools and 1 primary school from 3 different countries, Italy (2 partners), Greece and Turkey (2 partners). In 2016 it was 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl, the famous English author that wrote worldwide famous children's stories known also for their screen adaptations. Starting from this occasion the project aimed at investigating our pupils' relationship with the reading practice and at stimulating them to read stories. The students have reflected on these issues, they have known the author and read collaboratively one of his work, "The Twits". The aims of the project were the following ones: - have pupils' reflect on the importance of reading for life and promote it - give students the chance to improve their written and oral English language knowledge - know one of the most famous authors of children's story and one of his works - learn to collaborate and to develop a series of soft skills, also by using ICT - experiment new ways of learning English From October to December the pupils got to know each other by sharing their opinions on books, talking about their relationship with reading and suggesting a book to their European partners on Padlet, a virtual board. Then each class answered a survey on their reading habits and made a presentation of the collected data. After that each partner presented their school and territory in several ways by creating videos, multimedia presentations and one e-book. In order to make it more interactive each partner school prepared a series of questions about their work for their foreign partners. One of the strength of this project lies in the fact that, even if the activities were carefully planned by the teach ers, each partner carried them out in a different way. This has brought great variety to it and the partners were stimulated by each other's work. To complete this phase of knowledge during the Christmas holidays all the pupils were divided into small chatting groups of 4 or 5 and invited to talk on several topics. This gave them the chance to know their partners better and to practice their English. In the months of January and February the students got to know Roald Dahl's life and works. Each group involved dealt with this topic in a different way. For example my class created a timeline on a poster and a video to explain the information and the pictures collected on it. The pupils worked collaboratively in small groups. The Greek partner prepared a funny and challenging quiz about the author, while the Italian one recorded some podcasts with questions. 75