1. Christmas in our countries
Slovakia
Italy
Romania
Latvia
Romania

2. eTwinning project plan
Alessandra Livia Inga Giuseppina
Nick Magda

3. Details:
Age of the pupils: 15 - 18
Used language: English
Duration: 6 weeks (November - December)
School type: secondary school

4. Short description:
• Presentation and discussion of similarities and
differences in celebrating Christmas.
• Pupils prepare small leaflets/videos/glogsters with the
basic information about the Christmas traditions in their
country.
• They also exchange their favourite Christmas dish
recipes..
Students publish their favourite Christmas wishes.
Students collect and share the lyrics of traditional or
popular Christmas songs
• Using power point presentation, students from partner
schools will illustrate their own christmas traditional
culinary specialties.

5. Goals
get acquainted with Christmas traditions in other
countries.
compare traditions from cultures different from yours;
practise a foreign language;

6. use ICT tools to create presentations and/or interactive
posters
find the link between cultural context and different ways to
express feelings and emotions concerning Christmas
improve interest and respect towards cultural diversities.
students will convey feelings and emotions related to
religious celebration of Jesus Nascence's, illustrating them
with: drama, photographs, essays, Power- Point
presentation or through the Forum of section Twinspace.

7. Working methods:
1. students get to know each other using a forum on the
Twinspace
2. students start a blog on the Twinspace where they illustrate
how Christmas is usually celebrated in their country and in
their schools;
3. students start a blog where they express their Christmas
wishes; they also produce their own Christmas wishes
postcards.
4. students use a wiki on the twinspace in order to write about
Christmas in their country - traditions, usage, recipes;

8.
5. their partners add comments to the wikis and ask questions
6. students collect all the information they get from the wikis
and prepare a video or an interactive poster - glog - in order to
illustrate what they have learnt;
7. students comment on blogs or on a forum the work they have
done
8. the students’ works are published on the twinspace

9. ICT tools:
twinspace: forum, blog,wiki
video (Voicethread, GoAnimate);
Glogster
office software: PowerPoint, Movie Maker, Publisher