| Author |
Angeliki DELIGIANNI |
| E-mail |
ade@gecon.gr |
| Institute |
School Advisor of Central Makedonia, Northern Greece |
| Author |
Sofia Avtzoglou |
| E-mail |
av_sofia@hotmail.com |
| Institute |
Experimental Primary School of Thessaloniki Aristotle University, Greece |
| Target group |
Intermediate (14-16 years old) |
| Subjects |
Geography, Natural Sciences (Geoscience or Earth Science) |
| Aims |
- Explore the geography of the Earth and learn about countries, cities and continents
- Learn the geography of straits, isthmuses and canals
- Understand the time difference across the Earth and find out about time zones
- Learn greetings and other common expressions in languages of the countries that are explored in the project
- Understand that there are connections among the different languages
- Learn English expressions with “black” and “red” and thus understand the symbolism behind those colours in the English culture. Explore the symbolism of those colours in the students’ own culture
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Key competences
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| Communication in language(s) |
The Communication in foreign languages
- Develop reading comprehension competence in EFL (skimming, scanning)
- Build vocabulary related to Earth Science
- Practise writing skills in English
- Develop speaking competence in the context of related content terminology
- Find out about borrowings amongst various languages
- Find out about the distribution of languages in the world (English, Spanish, Arabic, Slavic languages)
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Subject: Geography and natural sciences
- Learning about the geography of the Earth
- Learning about countries, their capitals and their position on the globe
- Learning what are the straits, canals and isthmuses
- Exploring the time zones on earth and the difference in time among the different countries and continents
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| Learning to learn & digital competences |
- Learning in a spiral process activating and building on past experiences
- Analyzing and synthesizing new information critically aiming to improve content knowledge and language level
- Self –assessment of performance
- Searching for information on the Internet
- Extracting information from the Internet
- Selecting the information needed
- Compare and find similarities and differences
- Making associations and connections
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| Social and civic competences |
- Cooperating with peers and discuss findings
- Making associations and connections
- Exchanging views about likes/dislikes
- Synthesizing opinions, negotiating and getting to final conclusions
- Practicing language skills exploiting the humanistic perspective
- Helping each other to learn
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| Timing of the overall activities |
5-6 hours |
| Language(s) used in these materials |
English as the primary language of communication and the languages spoken by the students, as well as expressions from other languages such as: Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Slavic languages, etc. |
| Resources and materials needed |
- Photocopies of the Worksheets
- Dictionaries (on line and hard copies)
- Access to the Internet
- Geography books
- World map and a globe
- Projector connected to a computer
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