The main square is the meeting point of the social and cultural life of a town. It is a sample of its peoples and their cultural and social expressions. It is a space to share and live in tolerance and respect with our neighbours. For this reason, we have centred our project in the study of this public space which will help us understand and better learn about our European partners and, of course, about ourselves. This will provide both of us a global view of each other. As we have aforesaid, in this project we have focused our study in the squares of our towns: Karlskrona and Sant Cugat, and from the square we have increased our knowledge studying our towns and countries. We have followed the activities in our squares during the months we were working on this project, that is from December 2016 until April 2017.  Winter is a very cold season in many northen European towns, such as Karlskrona, so open-air activities are not so common. On the contrary, Sant Cugat is a Mediterranean town and good weather, even in winter time, is quite usual. For this reason there are more activities and a much extended use of the square. We hope that this project may help all of us to be more respectful and tolerant and eventually better European citizens.

 

GENERAL AIMS

• Develop communicative competence both in Spanish and English languages by means of a variety of resources
• Value the importance of communicating in a European language different from our owns in a variety of contexts
• Arouse curiosity and interest in learning from a different culture and geography within a frame of respect and tolerance
• Appreciate the importance of efficient cooperative and collaborative work
• Improve the knowledge of ICT
• Learn the importance of self-assessment and co-assessment

SPECIFIC AIMS

• Value the importance of communicating in a European language different from our owns in a variety of contexts
• Arouse curiosity and interest in learning from a different culture and geography within a frame of respect and tolerance
• Appreciate the importance of efficient cooperative and collaborative work
• Improve the knowledge of ICT
• Learn the importance of self-assessment and co-assessment
• Localise geographically and historically the square of the town of our European partners
• Learn about the culture and traditions of our partners’ families, society and institutions by means of the activities developed in the main square and its surroundings
• Appreciate the historic, social and cultural value of our own town and country and explain this to our partners
• Learn about the activities that take place in the area of the square during the different seasons and eventually compare them to our partners' and draw our own conclusions.

WORKING PROCEDURE

• Every partner will deal with a topic specified and described under “Timing”. The Swedish partners will use Spanish and English as their language of communication, and the Spanish partners will use English and, occasionally, Spanish.
• The ppt presentations, texts, hypertexts, reports, pictures and films will be uploaded to our TwinSpace by the end of every month
• A comparative work of the activities of both partners will be carried out by the partners every month
• Students will also develop a blog where they will publish their main square monthly activity and a web where they will publish the thematic activities. By the end of the project they will discuss with their partners the results they have obtained and will write one common text with their conclusions.
• After every monthly activity, and by the end of the project, students will undergo a co-evaluation and a  final self-evaluation process
• All the products produced during this project will be available in our TwinSpace and blog

TIMING

December:

• About us, our families, our school and the square of our town
• What happens in the area of our square in December?

January:

• About our town and our country
• What happens in the area of our square in January?

February:

• About our language, our culture and our history
• What happens in the area of our square in February?

March:

• About our partners' language, culture, history
• What happens in the area of our square in March?

April:

• About those topics in the life of our partners we are most interested in
• What happens in the area of our square in April?

EXPECTED OUTCOME

• Carry out oral PowerPoint and poster presentations
• Write short texts and hypertexts
• Make short films
• Exchange information, messages and chat with our partners by means of our TwinSpace, mail, Whatsapp, Instagram,etc and participate in the Forum
• Make “Ted talks”
• Make a web where we could publish some thematic activities
• Make a blog with the activity at the square
• Write a summarising text of the presentations uploaded in the TwinSpace every month
• Co-assessment and self-assessment of individual and group work
• Final survey and analysis of data