Main Christmas Tasks

  • At this stage, the Greek and Turkish learners are invited to carry out Christmas related tasks in order to develop the main theme of our multilingual project towards becoming Christmas penpals in a real-life context, as follows:

    1st step:  learners learn about Christmas celebrations (e.g. history, customs, decorations, etc) in both Messolonghi (Greece) and Istanbul (Turkey) through webquest using the Google search machine under their teachers’ guidance as well as watching relevant Youtube videos about Christmas celebrations in Greece, Turkey, Spain and Britain.

    2nd step: each pupil of the Greek school teams ballots his/her penfriend from the Turkish group to make a pair of Christmas penpals by exchanging their cards.

    3rd step: both Greek and Turkish learners prepare their handmade Christmas cards using colourful papers and decorations. Then the pairs of penpals from both school teams write Christmas wishes and greetings in their cards in four different languages (Greek, Turkish, English and Spanish) using the GoogleTranslate tool.

                                

                                 

    4th step: each penpal also prepares a short bio-letter to be attached to his/her Christmas card presenting himself/herself to his/her partner to get to know each other better (e.g talking about their external appearance, hobbies, favourite school subjects/food/sports/colour, pets, family, etc).

     

                                

                                

    5th step:  both school teams also create a multilingual Tagul word cloud with the "Christmas Tree of Wishes".

    6th step: penpals exchange their Christmas cards by airmail filled with joy and excitement feelings...