1. Talk with me

2. Publisher’s imprint
Author: Ester Cardona (strcardona@gmail.com)
Arantxa Sánchez (asanc264@gmail.com)
Related modules: European Diversity
European Identity (Cultural Heritage)
European Citizenship
European Professionalism (School Concepts)
Year of publication: 2011

3. Index
1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 3
2 Description of the project ................................................................................................. 3
3 Objectives / Aims ............................................................................................................. 4
4 Activities .......................................................................................................................... 4
5 Feedbacks ....................................................................................................................... 4
6 Summary ......................................................................................................................... 4
7 Attachments..................................................................................................................... 4
1 Introduction
The European Teachers Synthesize project gave us the opportunity to take part in the
programme “European Teachers Professionalism” held in Graz, Austria. Teachers from different
parts of Europe spent a week talking, analyzing, debating, comparing and sharing different
ideas and experiences about the education system in their countries and all around Europe.
2 Description of the project
Our project is about how we can encourage our students to speak English in the classroom. It is
based mainly on developing oral communication skills in English. We have written different
lesson plans which are aimed at enhancing the oral skills of students. In our project, we have
lesson plans about role-playing, story telling, a guessing game and singing a song. The aim of
our lessons is to get the students to produce something orally in order to develop speaking
skills.
After getting all the inputs, we have put into practice this international collaboration and we have
finally produced a project based on our experiences about teaching oral skills in the English
language.
We communicated through a private discussion group on facebook during the development of
our project.
We have also created some documents on google docs so that each of us could write their own
part of the project.
Each of us has presented a lesson plan that worked well with our students, the main objective
was to know different ways of developing the oral skills of our learners, and we have had
different ideas of what to do when working orally with our students.
We have also tried to put into practice some of the lesson plans described in our project with our
students. This has also worked very well, we have had to adapt some of the contents to our
group level, but all of the ideas were easily applicable to other groups and other cultures.

4. We have reached a conclusion that communicative oral games, songs, stories and role plays
are very valuable tools to work with any age group or level of students in any country when
practising speaking in English.
3 Objectives / Aims
The aim of our project is to share methodologies to practise speaking in English in the
classroom.
Each of us will try the methods described in our classrooms. We will evaluate the process and
the outcomes of the methods. We will share our experiences on a private discussion group on
facebook. Finally, we will write collaboratively the final conclusions of our project on a google
document.
4 Activities
Since the aim of our project is to develop the speaking skills of our students in the English
language, we used different types of activities to encourage them to speak in English in the
classroom. We got our students to do a role-play, for example, to show them how to speak if
they were in a restaurant. This gave them the opportunity to practise real-life English. We used
other activities, too such as story-telling to give them the chance to tell their own story. All the
other activities that we used in our lessons were a great way to enhance the oral skills of our
students in the English language.
5 Feedbacks
After we did our lesson plans and carried out the lessons in our classrooms, we wrote the
feedbacks of our lesson plans and shared them with each other on google docs. We wrote
about the positive and negative points of our lesson plans which were very useful in order to
make any necessary changes.
6 Summary
Our project, developing speaking skills in the English language is about how we can encourage
our students to speak accurately and fluently in English. As a group, we developed different
strategies and activities, and shared these with each other to make one whole project.
7 Attachments

5. 7.1.1 Project presentation. This is a slide presentation about the initial ideas of the
project introduce to our partners in the ETSize course in Graz.
7.1.2 Application form. This document contains personal information about the
members of the team and a short summary of the project.
7.1.3 Lesson plans. Document with an introduction of the project, the lesson
plans of each partner and the feedback of them.
7.1.4 Report of the project. Description, communication between the members
of the project and reflexion and evaluation of the project.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uTV8xnUHsdToQ3caWnnmtZOfvRHQMazLqTDBrk
G6P6s/edit?hl=en_US#
7.2 Photos
7.2.1 Group photo of the ETSize in-service course in Graz.
7.3 Hyperlinks
7.3.1 Website of the ETSize Project
http://www.european-teachers.eu
7.3.2 Website of the “escola Collserola blog” where you can see the video of the
kids doing one of the lesson plans (at the restaurant)
http://blocs.xtec.cat/englishcollserola/
7.3.3 Guessing game. Power point presentation to play a game of one of the
lesson plans. Go to the last web page and search for “guessing game”