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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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I was really happy to collaborate in this project and
my students too! It was we need to improve our
OSOS project. We planned several activities and
we share the results in the twinspace. We created
international groups and we joine also the ENO
(Environment Online,ENO for short, is a global
school network and web community for sustainable
development established in year 2000 in Finland).
The benefits of this collaboration were: a) students
more motivated and involved in the project, b)
share ideas and activities, c) use the great
opportunities offered by the TwinSpace, d) feel to
be part of a bigger community.
The students who took part in the project were in
the first grade in the car maintenance section.
With my students, we had a brainstorming session
to share ideas and then students wrote them on
coloured paper. Here are some of the things they
wrote:
- It helps me understand written English.
- It has enabled me to communicate with people I
didn’t know and made me more sociable.
- It made me speak in English for the project.
- I was happy to meet teenagers from other
countries.
- It has helped me improve in English.
- I had to make a special effort in English to be
understood by the others.
As well as the students’ thoughts we showed what
had already been done in the project.
Mariapia Borghesan is a Scientix and an eTwinning
ambassador. She teaches Maths and Science in a
lower secondary school in a small rural village in
the North of Italy. She enjoys collaborating with
other teachers and joining projects related to
Maths, Science, Environment and Sustainable
Development.
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How to persevere in English?
by Evelyne Newby
I teach English in a vocational school in Reims,
France and have been taking part in eTwinning
projects since 2008. Every year in March/April we
now have in our school a week called “semaine de
la persévérance”. Teachers show what they have
been doing throughout the school year with their
students to make them persevere.
This year I decided to use the eTwinning project
“eTeens” as an example of perseverance and I
chose to display the work in the school library, it
was called: “La perséverance grâce à eTwinning ou
comment persévérer en anglais”.
The eTwinning project “eTeens” involved four
schools:
Brattvåg ungdomsskule, Brattvåg Norway
Gimnazija "Stevan Jakovljević", Vlasotince, Serbia
Lycée Général et Technique Evariste de Parny, Saint
Paul - Ile De La Réunion, France
LP Gustave Eiffel, Reims, France
You can find out more about the finished project in
our public TwinSpace:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/43847/home
Evelyne Newby is an English teacher in a vocational
school in France, where about 650 pupils study –
they are aged between 15 and 20 and they belong
to various sections: catering (chefs and waiters),
food (bakery, pâtisserie), automotive painting, car
maintenance, metalworking, carbody repair and
horticulture. She is keen for her students to have
contacts with other students to widen their horizon
and to make them use English as a means of
communicating with fellow students.
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