European Day of Languages 2020
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European Day of Languages in the Primary school of A. Sládkovič, Sliač, Slovakia
EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES IN OUR SCHOOL
On September 25, 2020 we marked, as year after year, European Day of Languages in our school. Considering the current situation, we had decided to prepare activities for class groups. The activities were different, pupils used not only their imagination and creativity, but also language and artistic skills.
During the first lesson, pupils learnt a few interesting facts about European languages, since when and why this day has been celebrated and what its goal is. Subsequently, they solved various tasks that required attention, concentration and team spirit.
Colouring books in English were prepared for first-year pupils. They learnt English names for some animals and colours. Moreover, they listened to English songs. The second to fourth graders solved worksheets, they learnt and sang English songs with the help of QR codes and watched fairy tales e.g. in Hungarian.
The fifth to seventh graders were engaged in activities in English. They played a memory game focused on vocabulary of 16 European languages, made English words of different letters of alphabet, they tried to deal with tongue twisters and solved the language quiz as best they could.
In the 8th to 9th year, there were activities in Russian and German languages. In the German language, the students solved worksheets with gap-fills and word searches, worked with cards with German names of countries and nationalities, solved the language quiz and played a memory game with the names of fruits and vegetables.
Within the Russian language, the 8th graders listened to the Russian anthem, interesting facts about Russia and the sights of Moscow and Saint Petersburg were introduced to them through a presentation, they put a puzzle of Russian flag together, saw exhibited typical Russian objects and also tried to write in Cyrillic alphabet. The pupils in the 9th grade, in addition to working with a worksheet, playing a memory game and a didactic game in which they searched pairs (picture – name), were interested in typical Russian souvenirs, but especially tasting the sweet delicacy “halva” and the drink “kvas”.
During the next lesson, the students could also engage their imagination and creativity. Their task was to design a picture for a T-shirt in connection with the topic “European Day of Languages”. The pupils couldn´t draw any symbols or flags, they should have focused on languages and use a combination of three colours only. Many pictures were really interesting and imaginative.
Here is the link to the Language quiz made in Quizizz. Have fun!
https://quizizz.com/join/quiz/61c3559b0d3552001ea2087a/start
Here are the resources to the pictures used in the quiz.
Pictures resources.docx
We celebrated the European Day of Languages in our schools
Czech Republic
2019
Poland
2019
Pupils in our school during English lessons went on an "online" trip to London. First, they watched a short video about the capital of the UK. Then, they used flashcards to learn the most important words and facts about London. They also played vocabulary games, for example memory and bingo. Later, they did jigsaw puzzles.
Serbia
2019
Students from Serbia celebrated European Day of Languages in the following way:
- a short show for our students and teachers in which some students introduced themselves, talked to each others and said some proverbs in different languages (among them, there were proverbs from our project countries Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia as well as from Serbia)
- some posters in Serbian, Russian and French, our students learn them in our school
- a reading note was read in all our classrooms in all grades, informing students about the importance of learning foreign languages
Out of all, we made a video, watch and enjoy :)
Slovakia
2019
EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES
26 September has been familiar as European Day of Languages for years. On this day people all over the world commemorate the diversity of languages which they could not communicate without. The aim of the day is to bring importance of learning languages, multilingualism support, language and cultural diversity, cross-cultural understanding and lifelong education into focus.
Our school has also decided to celebrate the day for the fourth time. We have prepared four checkpoints where pupils could learn some interesting facts about different countries. There was the checkpoint focused on our countries, too – Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Serbia. Everybody could show their knowledge and learn something new as well. The teachers have prepared many games, quizzes, presentation and flags of the countries. The pupils put together Slovak and Czech proverbs, looked up the same, similar and different Slovak and Czech words in a Czech text, matched Czech and Polish words to the Slovak ones, played memory game and watched a presentation about Serbia and Serbian language focused on a part of Serbia - Vojvodina.
Everything was really interesting and everybody had a great time.
