Project description

  • In a global world teenagers all over Europe share the same idols and role models. In this project students will produce video interviews with international celebrities but they won't say their names. Students of other nationalities will have to guess who it is. The videos will be published on TwinSpace where everyone will see them and make a guess about the identity of the celebrity. There will be awards for the students who make the most correct guesses. This will be the second edition of a project which was successfully carried out last year.

    Aims

    - awareness of the linguistic, paralinguistic and extralinguistic strategies that can be used in communication
    - practice of oral skills
    - practice of acting skills
    - digital competence (video recording and video editing, Internet, Skype)
    - students’ creativity.
    - awareness of the common body of knowledge that different countries share in a globalised world

    Work process

    September:

    - The teachers get to know each other by means of a Padlet presentation and agree on the deadlines and the outline of the project;

    October:

    - students' registration and first interaction on the Twinspace.

    - Each nationality prepares a presentation of their school (ppt, Prezi, video or any other).

    - Each nationality prepares a Kahoot! quiz about thier own countries to be played by the other partners.

    November:

    - Groups or pairs of students from each country record a short video (3-8 minutes) in which one host will interview one or more mysterious guests. These must be internationally known artists, politicians or scientists

    -The partner teachers or the students themselves upload students’ videos to Twin Space

    - All the participants watch the videos and make a guess about the identity of the mysterious guest. 

    - A guessing contest is held: each time a single student guesses a celebrity he/she is awarded one (virtual) cup

    December:

    - The students who have made the most guesses in the guessing contest are awarded with certificates by the teachers.

    - Each class has a Skype meetings with another nationality and plays "Guess who I am" (asking yes/no questions to guess a celebrity) 

    - the students share their response to the project on the twinspace

    Ideally each school should spend an hour a week on the project.

    Expected results

    - Students from Italy, Norway,, Turkey, France and Poland get to know each other;

    - Students practise the language skills and develop communicative competence;

    - Students know how to use video editing programmes;

    - Students know how to use Twin Space;

    - Students can interact in English by means of Skype;

    - Students develop intercultural competence

    - Teachers echange ideas and good practices

    - Teachers use ICT in meaningful contexts

    - Schools enhance their international dimensions