First ideas of the project

Before starting with doing the final project we have been thinking about what we want to introduce in the project and why we made ourselves some questions, for example the following ones:

•  How old will be our children?
•  Our school will be included in “Eleanitz proiektua”?
•  How many days per week will they have classes?
•  Will we use CLIL in our project?
•  The project will be interdisciplinary? Why?
•  In our class will be different levels of English, what will we do  with that? Is this beneficial for others? Or will be a problem?
•  In English classes have we speak in English all the time? If  children do not understand in English, will we have to explain  it in another language?

After reflecting on several things we started with the project and we decided that our project will be based in “The wolf and the seven little goats” story. We thing is that with this story we can work on different themes or topics, for example, different jobs, the family, animals, emotions and etc. We reflected that the topics we will work on, will be based on the children’s nearby environment and like this, if we work on jobs, we will see their parent’s jobs, and not unknown jobs; if we work on animals, we will use animals that they know about and etc.

Moreover, we decided that our project will be interdisciplinary because we will work taking into account what they are doing in other classes. For example, we will approach what they have done recently in Basque, to practise these contents in English.

So, to sum up, our aim is learning English turn to be a pleasure, not an obligation and the teacher will make motivation and excitement happened. We also decided that our project activities will be practical, such as songs, stories, excursions…  We won’t  practice with our kids the grammar, not directly at least, and we will respect also their rhythm.

Apart from that, we have also been talking about how we will present the project to our partners. Our objective is to make something original and for that, we have been thinking about doing a presentation of how we would do our project with children.

            That's all for today, bye- bye!!