Forum+A+day+in+my+life+project

by [|Angela Moninets] - Thursday, 3 November 2011, 11:04 PM || So, the aim of this project is for students to communicate and share their stories. Students can upload their photos as well as PPP. By doing this kind of projects students can find out a lot about the way other people live. They might get to know about different traditions, customs, lifestyles and standards of living as well. A number of things made me wonder what the person was hinting at. From the story you can draw a variety of conclusions, ranging from his wealth to what subjects pupils study. Students' English will definitely benefit as they will perceive the language of their peers, of people of the same age, which is a good incentive to move on. They will do their best to write a proper description of their day, make sure they do not make mistakes, and spot the others' mistakes if any. I found it really //intriguing.// [|Reply] ||  by [|Myroslava Loboiko] - Saturday, 5 November 2011, 07:14 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Tetyana Yarmysh] - Saturday, 5 November 2011, 08:26 PM || One can't deny the fact that writing a story to be read by your peer is more meaningful than to be checked by your teacher and students are likely to do their best. [|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||  by [|Helen Onyshchenko] - Saturday, 5 November 2011, 08:47 PM || The benefits for students' English are obvious, because, as Angela has mentioned, they will do their best when writing the project. And reading the projects of their English peers will give the opportunity to face and understand the 'real' English which is not as perfect as in our coursebooks. (I've attached another PPP from the same project that I randomly found on the eLanguages site. It was written by a student of Launceston College, UK) [|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||  by [|Liudmila Ariutova] - Saturday, 5 November 2011, 09:53 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||  by [|Nataly Katsaran] - Sunday, 6 November 2011, 02:01 AM || This project gives students the chance to improve: 1. Languge skills (writing, reading, listening and speaking if making video, grammar and vocabulary) 2. Communication skills (rules of communication on-line, group work, on-line dialodue, making friends) 3. Intercultural dialogue skills ( learn about culture, traditions, lifestyle) 4. Reflection skills (analize own/smb lifestyle, behaviuor and receive/give the feedback on it)) 5. Computer skills (i-net, word, PPP, moviemaker, video conference, etc) 6. Leadership skills (work on schedule, responsibility) If I forget something, please add.
 * A day in my life project.
 * =  || After I'd read the letter, I could not say where the person was from. So it is rather challenging to guess, I had to peep to get to know the answer.
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2035/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Myroslava Loboiko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2035&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || I agree with Angela. Everything I can add is just to summarize. The participants of the project are given a valuable chance to get acquainted with the culture of other countries, places, regions, territories. And what is more they do it with the help of English understanding that it is an international language. They gain confidence in their knowledge.
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2041/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Tetyana Yarmysh" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2041&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || The initial exchange of stories with a foreign peer is the beginning of intercultural dialogue through which students also learn to recognise similarities and differences in the way of living and gain understanding that 'being different does not mean being worse'.
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2029/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Helen Onyshchenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2029&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  ||  [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/f/powerpoint.gif link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/file.php/9/moddata/forum/39/41785/A_day_of_my_lifehs_1_.ppt"]] [|A_day_of_my_lifehs_1_.ppt]  I'd like to add that thanks to such projects our students might not only get to know the traditions and lifestyles of their peers in other countries and societies, but also start reflecting on their own lifestyles. After reading the letter of the Malawi student, for example, they might consider the importance of being clean and sweeping their rooms :D
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2034/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Liudmila Ariutova" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2034&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || I agrre with Angela that the aim of the project is to communicate.It is much more valuable and interesting for students because the communication is alive,according to age interests. Such projects are close contacts between kids, they can educate each other more successfully than the teachers do at the lessons. And these projects work for our future, peaceful future with mutual understanding and confidence. The more we make contacts the more we have friends not enemies.
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2038/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Nataly Katsaran" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2038&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || Dear ladies, you've done the great deal of work! The link doesn't work on my computer, so I have only to summerize.

[|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Sunday, 6 November 2011, 09:14 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Sunday, 6 November 2011, 09:22 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||  by [|Kseniia Rozdolska] - Sunday, 6 November 2011, 03:03 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Raisa Istomina] - Sunday, 6 November 2011, 04:31 PM ||
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2042/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Vera Moiseenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2042&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || ...teaching to be tolerant.
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2042/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Vera Moiseenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2042&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || Just the same situation with link. But I found this link- try it @http://www.elanguages.org/18059
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2033/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Kseniia Rozdolska" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2033&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || The aim of this kind of project is to communicate between the learners from other school, to share their everyday stories. That's quite ineresting, 'cause you get to know with other culture, cuisine, lifestyle. You can even find ineresting websites while reading these projects. So you may undersand what games do foreign children play. To my mind that's a good motivation for our students to use and improve thier English, because they communicate with real children. They can upload their own photos, videos, stories, music, PPP. I wish I had such links projects when I was younger. But for our children that's a great opportunity to communicate and use the natural English. So we have a wonderful possibility to do this with our students!
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2040/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Raisa Istomina" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2040&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || My guessing about the writer's place of living: Vietnam or Japan, because the author mentions "rice and bananas".

Everybody considers that the aim of the project is communication. I also share this point. While communicating students can develop their cross-cultural competence; compare the ways of living, get understanding that they use variants of the same language; etc. These lines are from the book "Chicken Soup for the Soul". The poem is "Children learn what they live". I think the lines say what benefits kids can get doing such projects.

If children live with encouragement, they learn to be confident.

If children live with sharing, they learn to be generous.

If children live with friendliness, they learn that the world is a nice place in which to live.

Some more ideas on potential benefits of the project: - real communication; - relevance to the age and interests, and of course, level of language competence. - development and practical use of IT skills to upload pictures, photos, stories, etc. - communication through projects makes students closer to each other though they live in different parts of the world.

[|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||  by [|Angela Nikishina] - Sunday, 6 November 2011, 07:30 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||  by [|Vera Moiseenko] - Sunday, 6 November 2011, 09:16 PM || Dear colleagues, just for you: (no words, only emotions - emotional pictures):
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2028/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Angela Nikishina" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2028&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || These are great comments done by all my colleagues.Especially I like and support the point of making friends around the world.Such projects develop all the aspects of the language and also Ss competence even if their e-pals aren't from the country with English used as the 1st language.And,of course,all the computer skills the Ss have got will have further training and improving and are used not for the imaginary(like in books) but for real life situations.
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2042/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Vera Moiseenko" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2042&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.

[|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||  by [|Natalia Kolotova] - Monday, 7 November 2011, 02:16 AM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] || by [|Irina Dygal] - Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 10:45 PM || [|Show parent] | [|Reply] ||
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2036/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Natalia Kolotova" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2036&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || I reckon it contributes to preparing for working in an international environment [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/theme/britcounv3_nav/pix/s/approve.gif caption="approve"]]First, Ss can get some info about routines (habits, customs, etc.) in other countries. Then Ss can practise guessing the idea behind the written text (if the text contains errors). Finally, such activity can introduce Ss to the idea that not everything published on the Inet is a model.
 * = [[image:http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/pix.php/2030/f2.jpg width="35" height="35" caption="Picture of Irina Dygal" link="http://courses.britishcouncil.org/pub/learningtechnologies/user/view.php?id=2030&course=9"]] || Re: A day in my life project.
 * =  || Learning about other cultures is always interesting. Besides Ss can develope their language skills and enlarge the vocabulary.