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

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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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.
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