Tell me a story, please Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tell me a story, please

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

A sharp decline in the time spent by our students reading works of literary quality has become noticeable in different studies throughout Europe. Nowadays, young people prefer to spend a large part of their time interacting with their peers using social networks and modern technological devices like mobile phones or tablets. This is a sign of our times which has come to stay, and because of that our focus shouldn’t be on stopping them from doing so. We’d rather make use of those same gadgets to foster our students’ creativity using them while communicating with students with similar interests but from different backgrounds. However, even if we try to incorporate those devices, we will also get our students in touch with quality reading material to improve their linguistic skills while distracting them from the use of their mobiles at the same time. In this way, our students will also get to know the European cultural legacy, comparing the differences and similarities between the different countries. A purpose we have in mind is to develop our students’ ICT proficiency by using other platforms like etwinning, youtube, blogs, etc. By means of these tools, our students will have the chance to communicate with students from other countries using English as their language of interaction, but it will also be possible for them to communicate using other languages like French, Portuguese or Spanish, languages which they are studying as a second language at their schools. And this will be so because they will be visiting countries where these languages are the native ones. One of our aims will be to provide our students with access to literary writers and works from different backgrounds and countries, so as to enrich their cultural perspective and knowledge, with a European scope. This knowledge will take place visiting places related to specific writers and literary works, or performing activities together with students from other countries, and thanks to this interaction and cultural exchanges, our students’ maturity process will develop. Another important target will be to foster our students’ creativity, by asking them to do activities in which they will have to produce a literary-related outcome, either by themselves or with the collaboration of other partners. For instance, they will be asked to:
-write a short story about a contemporary topic
-draw the front cover of a book
-make different presentations: of their town, school, school’s library, a bookshop
-create a bookmark, or a mascot and a logo for the project
-start an international reading club
-write a diary pretending to be a famous writer
-recommend favourite books for other partners to read
-make a personal interpretation of a current event
-perform a theatre sketch

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 176400 Eur

Project Coordinator

Åva Gymnasium & Country: SE

Project Partners

• IES VALDEBERNARDO
• Collège Albert Camus
• Agrupamento de Escolas Latino Coelho, Lamego
• IISS LEONARDO DA VINCI
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA “I.G.DUCA”