During two years of our project students will have the opportunity to join the reading and translating competition, in order to familiarize students with the foreign pronunciation of specific phonemes, compare their English to others, compare their skills of reading with understanding, and earn valuable prizes.

The defining characteristics of the mythical hero Odysseus in classical literature are interpreted in wildly different ways by different authors: he is portrayed as a hero in Homer’s The Odyssey or as a deceitful figure in Virgil’s Aeneid. The different interpretations reveal his complexity and versatility. › Reading & translating 1

Percy Jackson is the narrator of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, a fictional character. Its development began when Rick Riordan started inventing stories for his son. The child, who had been studying Greek mythology, asked his father to tell him bedtime stories based on those myths. › Reading & translating 2

Third row of this competition was related to books students recommended in our Book Recommender Brochure and Diary:  Reading & translating 3