This is the second year we send letters to Spanish students of IES Vega del Guadalete in La Barca de la Florida, Spain.
The main aims of the project are:
- to create contacts with European students;
- to improve the use of English as a Foreign Language;
- to create real chances to use English;
- to write letters (using pens and paper!) to discover the pleasure of talking about oneself, of knowing other people, of receiving letters.
- to create contacts with European students;
- to improve the use of English as a Foreign Language;
- to create real chances to use English;
- to write letters (using pens and paper!) to discover the pleasure of talking about oneself, of knowing other people, of receiving letters.
Some weeks ago 3rd year students and I created a prompt for the first letter to send to our Spanish friends.
Writing a letter
Your address
Date
Dear friend,
Opening greetings
Text of the letter
Closing greetings
Example
Via I Maggio, 1
05024 Giove
12th October 2011
Dear friend,
- How are you? / Is everything ok?
- I'm fine / I'm ok. I hope you are fine too.
- My name is ….
- I’m …. years old and I’m a boy/girl.
- I live in Giove. Giove is a small village in Umbria and it is near Rome. In Giove you can see……….
- I’m tall/short and slim/plump, I have got blue/brown/dark eyes and long/short straight/curly/spiky brown/blond/dark hair.
- I’m generous/shy/lively/talkative/friendly, nice/lazy/kind/unfriendly/happy/bad-tempered/a sportsman
- In my family there are … members: my mum, my dad, my brother, my sister ……
My mum is a housewife, my dad is a doctor.
- In my free time I play football. I play it three times a week on Monday, Tuesday and Friday/everyday. My favourite football team is Juventus and my favourite football player is Vidal. I like him because I think he is a good player.
- I have dance lessons, watch TV, listen to music, play cards, meet friends ……
- I like listening to music and my favourite singer/band is……..I don’t like ……
- My favourite actor/actress, ………
- I often wear black jeans/skirt/…. and white t-shirt/jumper…
- I have got two dogs: Pinco and Pallino.
- I go to school everyday from Monday to Friday. My favourite subjects are ……… I don’t like ……. because ……
- And what about you?
- Who’s your favourite singer …..?
- Have you got brothers and sisters?
- Have you got pets?
- Do you like going to school?
- Can you send me your photo?
- That’s it for now.
Write soon.
Bye bye.
Then each student personalized the letter at home, I corrected it and they copied the letter using writing paper.
Yesterday morning I went to the post office and sent the first letters!
The project has officially started,
on board!
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