4. COMENIUS “LINK” PROJECT Vouneuil sur Vienne (France) October, 21 st – 25th 2008

5. SCUOLA MEDIA STATALE “C. CASTELLER” PAESE - ITALY

6. HOW YOUNG PEOPLE ARE REPRESENTED AT SCHOOL: EXAMPLES OF STUDENT DEMOCRACY

7. SUBJECTS INVOLVED FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ENGLISH EDUCATION TO CITIZENSHIP HISTORY ITALIAN

8. TEACHERS INVOLVED: ITALIAN, HISTORY AND CIVICS TEACHER ENGLISH TEACHER SUPPORTING TEACHER

9. TARGET AUDIENCE: CLASS INVOLVED 3^ F: A GROUP OF 28 STUDENTS (13-14 YEARS OLD) LEVEL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE (ENGLISH): A1/A2 and A2/B1 according to the levels of the Common European Framework

10. TIME Two hours a week for three months ( about 25 hours )

11. Why choosing this topic and these subjects?

12. LAST YEAR A GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM DIFFERENT CLASSES OF OUR SCHOOL REALIZED A FILM (“L’ISOLA”) ABOUT THE SHARING OF CORRECT LIVING RULES. AFTER THIS MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCE, THE STUDENTS WILL BE HELPED TO REFLECT UPON THE CONCEPT OF DEMOCRACY AND HOW THEY CAN APPLY IT AT SCHOOL

13. IN ITALY OUR EDUCATIONAL MINISTER WANTS TO GIVE AN EVEN MORE IMPORTANCE TO THE KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF CORRECT SOCIAL LIVING RULES AT SCHOOL IN THE MEANWHILE THE STUDENTS ARE REQUESTED TO KNOW THE ORIGINS OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

14. 13-14 AGE STUDENTS HAVE BEEN STUDYING ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR SEVERAL YEARS,THEREFORE THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE NECESSARY COMPETENCES IN ORDER TO AFFORD THE TOPIC

15. Methodology

16. 1) Teachers : Plan the activities to be proposed; Explain the activities to students; Prepare a list of key-words; Alternate class management with groupwork; Prepare activities of assessment.

17. 2) Students: Listen to the teachers that introduce the topic (paying the requested attention); Carry out the task; Work (in pair, in groups, etc.) in order to find out the information; Synthetize contents they learn; Prepare different tools to be discussed;

18. Linguistic Pre-requisites:

19. The students are able to: Describe people and objects; Describe habits and routines; Say what they like and don’t like; Give short, basic descriptions of events and activities; Express personal opinion about situations; Locate a place or a space giving instructions; Describe past and future activities; Surf the internet.

20. Grammar: personal pronouns, reflexives; demonstrative, possessive, indefinite and nationality adjectives; present simple and continuous of regular and some irregular verbs; main time and place adverbs and preposition; Lexis:physical description; daily routine; like and dislike. The students know:

21. LINGUISTIC OBJECTIVES:

22. Describe young people (physical aspect, style of dress, tastes..); Speak about free time; Express personal opinion about the suggested topics; Find out specific information in oral and written texts;

23. Reply to a multiple choice questions and open questions; Use simple structures to reply and ask about the main content of a text; Produce simple written texts (questionnaires, summaries,…).

24. At the end of the activity students are supposed to know: Simple past and present perfect; Relative pronouns; Complement personal pronouns; Going to… and will future; Conditional (use of could and would); Comparative and superlative adjectives; Specific lexicon.

25. EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

26. Democracy concept: beginning, development and different aspects; How the Democracy manifests itself at school; School regulation: rights and duties of students in our school; Comparison between different customs, cultures and way of life of students from foreign Countries.

27. Integrated Objectives:

28. The students: Are able to read descriptive and expositive texts and identify the requested information; Are able to read a text in order to carry out a task and find specific information; Learn and use the specific vocabulary related to the concept of Democracy, Right/Duty, freedom, responsability, cooperation; Are able to find helpful information in a web site;

29. Interact with school mats and adults about the topic: a.Set a problem; b.Ask questions; c.Give suggestions; d.Propose solutions and alternative possibities; e.Compare different points of view; f.Reach an agreement.

30. ASSESSMENT Written comprehension on the content that will be examined through true/false and multiple choice activities. Oral discussion with suggestions and solutions in order to apply the concept of Student Democracy examined by the teachers involved.