European Quality Label

Our great project last year has just received the European Quality Label. Congratulations to all the students involved!!

Quality label for our project

We have received the quality label for last year's work in East or West, Home is Best!

eTwinning sessions for Thursday

These will be the meetings to be held in each of the eTwinning groups belonging to the project, East or West, Home is Best on Thursday evening:

Group 1 from 18.00-18.45 (PL,SPAIN),19.00-19.45 (LT,U)

Group 2 from 18.45-19.30 (PL,SPAIN),19.45-20.30 (LT,U)

Group 3 from 19.30-20.15 (PL,SPAIN), 20.30-21.15 (LT, U)

Group 4 from 20.15-21.00 (PL, SPAIN), 21.15-22.00 (LT, U)

Go to the project Twinspace, then choose the Live page, and then the chatroom.

Today's eTwinning activities

1. First of all, write a message in the forum that corresponds to your group to communicate with the other teachers and students.
2. Second, make sure you have done something in all the tasks that correspond to your group activities.
3. Then, continue with the materials and write comments about the materials the other students have made to communicate with them. Try to be positive and constructive.

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GROUP 1: Strange Foods

• Spanish members: Alba Vázquez, Antía Vázquez, José Ángel López, Patricia García
• Activities: 
• Presentation about strange foods: choose a slide and write about the most strange foods you've tried.
• Choose a place in the MAP and write a text about a strange food you've tried there
• Use the Group 1 Forum to communicate with the other students or write comments in the presentation (the comments will be deleted at the end)

GROUP 2:

• Spanish members: Javier Pajón, Francisco Martínez, 
• Activities: Presentation
• Advice from Neringa, the teacher:
• Create slides for:
• People and their appearance in the future
• Means of transport
• Houses and buildings
• Future schools
• Forms of entertainment
• You are welcome to write short descriptions, insert photos or your own drawings. Trust your imagination
• Remember using Future Simple (will/ might+V) or Future Continuous (will +be+V-ing) or even Future Perfect (will+have+V-ed/ 3 form) in your slides to express yourselves. 

• Use the Group 2 Forum to communicate with other students

GROUP 3:

• Spanish members: Álvaro Piñeiro, Álex Vázquez, Natalia Vázquez (use the tinograndio@gmail.com account to have access to the materials)
• Activities:
• Presentation: The Place I Love and Treasure
• Puzzles: Favourite Place of My Childhood
• Video: Favourite Place in My House/Flat
• Use the Group 3 Forum to communicate with the other students

GROUP 4: Amusements in my hometown or neighbourhood.

• Spanish members: Silvia Méndez, Xacob Yánez, Noelia Abel
• Activities:Detailed instructions in the forum.
• Online Google Presentation
• The Postcard
• Favourite Amusements
• Use the Group 4 Forum to communicate with the other students

Today's eTwinning activities

GROUP 1: Strange Foods

• Spanish members: Alba Vázquez, Antía Vázquez, José Ángel López, Patricia García
• Activities: 
• Presentation about strange foods: choose a slide and write about the most strange foods you've tried.
• Choose a place in the MAP and write a text about a strange food you've tried there
• Use the Group 1 Forum to communicate with the other students or write comments in the presentation (the comments will be deleted at the end)

GROUP 2:

• Spanish members: Javier Pajón, Francisco Martínez, 
• Activities: Presentation
• Advice from Neringa, the teacher:
• Create slides for:
• People and their appearance in the future
• Means of transport
• Houses and buildings
• Future schools
• Forms of entertainment
• You are welcome to write short descriptions, insert photos or your own drawings. Trust your imagination
• Remember using Future Simple (will/ might+V) or Future Continuous (will +be+V-ing) or even Future Perfect (will+have+V-ed/ 3 form) in your slides to express yourselves. 

• Use the Group 2 Forum to communicate with other students

GROUP 3:

• Spanish members: Álvaro Piñeiro, Álex Vázquez, Natalia Vázquez (use the tinograndio@gmail.com account to have access to the materials)
• Activities:
• Presentation: The Place I Love and Treasure
• Puzzles: Favourite Place of My Childhood
• Video: Favourite Place in My House/Flat
• Use the Group 3 Forum to communicate with the other students

GROUP 4: Amusements in my hometown or neighbourhood.

• Spanish members: Silvia Méndez, Xacob Yánez, Noelia Abel
• Activities:Detailed instructions in the forum.
• Online Google Presentation
• The Postcard
• Favourite Amusements
• Use the Group 4 Forum to communicate with the other students

ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITIES IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:

• Revise the geography tests about Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Spain
• Write your comments about the quizzes in the forum

Today's eTwinning activities

GROUP 1: Strange Foods

• Spanish members: Alba Vázquez, Antía Vázquez, José Ángel López, Patricia García
• Activities: 
• Presentation about strange foods: choose a slide and write about the most strange foods you've tried.
• Choose a place in the MAP and write a text about a strange food you've tried there
• Use the Group 1 Forum to communicate with the other students or write comments in the presentation (the comments will be deleted at the end)

GROUP 2:

• Spanish members: Javier Pajón, Francisco Martínez, 
• Activities: Presentation
• Advice from Neringa, the teacher:
• Create slides for:
• People and their appearance in the future
• Means of transport
• Houses and buildings
• Future schools
• Forms of entertainment
• You are welcome to write short descriptions, insert photos or your own drawings. Trust your imagination
• Remember using Future Simple (will/ might+V) or Future Continuous (will +be+V-ing) or even Future Perfect (will+have+V-ed/ 3 form) in your slides to express yourselves. 

• Use the Group 2 Forum to communicate with other students

GROUP 3:

• Spanish members: Álvaro Piñeiro, Álex Vázquez, Natalia Vázquez (use the tinograndio@gmail.com account to have access to the materials)
• Activities:
• Presentation: The Place I Love and Treasure
• Puzzles: Favourite Place of My Childhood
• Video: Favourite Place in My House/Flat
• Use the Group 3 Forum to communicate with the other students

GROUP 4: Amusements in my hometown or neighbourhood.

• Spanish members: Silvia Méndez, Xacob Yánez, Noelia Abel
• Activities:Detailed instructions in the forum.
• Online Google Presentation
• The Postcard
• Favourite Amusements
• Use the Group 4 Forum to communicate with the other students

ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITIES IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:

• Revise the geography tests about Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Spain
• Write your comments about the quizzes in the forum

eTwinning team activities

TEAM 1: STRANGE FOODS

Members: Spain Ana Arias-teacher (13):, Guste Kiriliauskyte (Lt), Alba Vázquez (Sp), Gabriela Kosmider (Pl), Jakub Kapola (Pl), Wiktoria Babiarczyk (Pl), Mantas Kobcevas (Lt), Antia Vazquez (Sp), Stanislaw Namysl (Pl), Vika Isupova (U),Indrius Zerveckas (Lt), Alex Biruk (U), José Ángel Lopez (Sp), Patricia García (Sp)

Communication: Forum 1

TASK 1: online presentation. Presentation about the strangest foods in your area (city, neighbourhood or country) Each of you may make one slide or two, one for each food or dish.

TASK 2: My maps. Complete the map sharing information about the most strange foods you know worldwide. You can add information about the foods you've written about in the presentation and about any others you have heard of or tried.

Deadline: middle of May

TEAM 2
Members: Javier Pajón (Sp), Volodia Yakymir (U), Zuzanna Kaluzna (Pl), Joanna Pietrucha (Pl), Francisco Martínez (Sp), , Laura Grzesiak (Pl), Martyna Kuberka (Pl), Monika Tamosauskite (Lt), Mazvydas Kairys (Lt), Agne Puidokaite (Lt), Wiktoria Kaminska (Pl),Skaiste Kairyte (Lt)

Communication: Forum 2

TEAM 3

Members: Alvaro Piñeiro (Sp), Natalia Kabacinska (Pl), Marianna Potapow (Pl), Álex Vázquez (Sp), Mindaugas Kazlauskis (Lt), Ruta Muskauskaite (Lt), Halya Shmahlo (U), Artur Ilyin (U),  Natalia Vazquez (Sp), Alicja Danilecka (Pl), Paulina Szmura (Pl), Zoriana Kozak (U), Dominykas Andrutis (Lt), Kacper Mokijewski (Pl)

Communication: Forum 3

TEAM 4: AMUSEMENTS IN MY HOMETOWN OR NEIGHBOURHOOD

Members: Group 4: Silvia Méndez (Sp), Julia Luczak (Pl),Martyna Czeszak (Pl), Xacob Yáñez (Sp), Toma Pronckute (Lt), Kristina Jablonskyte (Lt), Emilia Buda (Pl), Nicole Augustyniak (Pl), Joanna Klessa (Pl), Alia Al Arusi (U), Lubhyk Velykyi (U), Arturas Martinavicius (Lt),), Maksymilian Borowka (Pl), Noelia Abel (Sp)

Communication: Forum 4

Topic: Amusements in my hometown or neighbourhood

 TASK 1: Online Google presentation

Each student is invited to prepare one slide about different kinds of entertainment in his/her hometown or neighbourhood.

If you don’t have any in your place, please describe where you can spend free time in your hometown or neighbourhood.

Own photos welcome! Please sign you slide and put the flag of your country.

Below the link to the presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GHP2JkonasaEZHakbVyxFlkMw64n_TjVxtu8yXL1-JI/edit?usp=sharing

TASK 2: The postcard

Register yourself on https://www.canva.com/ 

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Prepare the postcard with greetings from your country/city/town/village

Watch the instructive video about this application:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NKQrL2OD8

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Ready postard you can share, download as an image or PDF.

TASK 3: Favourite amusement(s)

Register yourself on http://slidetalk.net/

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Each student is invited to present his/her favourite type of entertainment. You can tell us how do you relax or spend time with your friends. Use the pictures, write the text (it will be converted into voice) and get the amazing video.

How to use the SlideTalk:

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I hope you like my tasks and enjoy the collaborative activities. If you have any questions or problems, please ask me or your teacher.

The deadline for all tasks: middle of May

Today's chat session

1. Go to the CHATROOM for our project.
2. Log in. Introduce your user name and keys.
3. As soon as some partners log in, introduce yourself.
4. Remember that we should be speaking about our project, the activities we have already done, our countries (similarities and differences).
5. Be polite and try to find out about your partners and their countries.

Today's eTwinning session

Good afternoon,

We already have the Polish and Spanish votes for the favourite logo but not the ones from Ukraine or Lithuania as they are still enjoying our winter holidays.

Next week ESO-3 will have an eTwinning chat session with Poland and Ukraine from 13.40 to 14.05 and a session for ESO-4 students is also being organized, probably with the Lithuanian students.

Today we are going to start the last all Spanish activity and this will be to write an introduction of Guntín and Lugo to our partners in the project. So, in pairs choose one aspect of Guntín or Lugo and be ready to explain it in our Glogster.

In Gloster posters you can write text and include pictures, videos and audio files. So, take your own pictures or videos to go with the text. 

Choose your favourite eTwinning logo for "East or West, Home is Best"

LOGO 1:

LOGO 2: 

LOGO 3: 

LOGO 4: 

LOGO 5:

LOGO 6: 

LOGO 7: 

 LOGO 8: 

eTwinning session

These are this week's activities:

1. First log in at the Twinspace website
2. Finally, each team will create a quiz about another country. In this case, we will have to create a quizz about Poland so, go to Wikipedia  and you can go to Quiz Biz to create a quiz qith 20-25 questions. Please upload images to make it more professional.WRITE YOUR QUESTIONS HERE. Other interesting websites:
• Lonely Planet
• Tourism Poland
• Science Kids
• Slavorum: 25 interesting facts about Poland

Today's eTwinning class

These are this week's activities:

1. First log in at the Twinspace website
2. Choose your favourite logo at the Logo Page and tell your teacher (and choose a second favourite)
3. Have a look at the Christmas page and you can write your comments about our Christmas at the forum thread.
4. Watch this video the Polish students have sent to us.
5. Finally, each team will create a quiz about another country. In this case, we will have to create a quizz about Poland so, go to Wikipedia  and you can go to Quiz Biz to create a quiz qith 20-25 questions. Please upload images to make it more professional.WRITE YOUR QUESTIONS HERE. Other interesting websites:
• Lonely Planet
• Tourism Poland
• Science Kids
• Slavorum: 25 interesting facts about Poland

Today's eTwinning session

Today's plan is the following:

• First log in at the eTwinning site.
• Read the latest messages in the forum and write your replies.
• If you are making a logo, finish it and upload it a the Materials section and then at the Logo page.
• CHRISTMAS: write your comments in the forum about Christmas in Spain, share the distinctive facts and write comments about everyone else's Christmas.

eTwinning session

TODAY:

1. We'll write our replies to the messages in the forum.
2. We'll prepare the logos: you can use the pictures in the Images folder or your own or others with no copyright limitations.
1. You can use editing software or other applications (PhotoFunia...)
2. Send the resulting image to your teacher.
3. We might make a short introduction video. Decide what you would say (about you, the project, your expectations, etc.)

Today's eTwinning session

1. First, log in at the eTwinning site using your username and password.
2. Read all the messages from the other students in the Padlet and complete your profile. You can use video and audio files or just add some more text.
3. Then, go to the Forum and write your first impressions and questions about the other students' profiles and introductions. Remember to be respectful.
4. The next activity is optional, but we recommend that you participate. Try and design a logo that represents what the project is about:

• It might have the title of the project: East or West, Home is Best
• It might have images representing all four countries: Lithuania, Poland, Spain and Ukraine, or our schools or villages
• It might be anything different that can be used as a logo.
• At the end of the month all the members in this project will vote and choose their favourite logo.
• There are some images in the folders with the names of our countries in the Images folder in the project. You can choose other images but remember to be careful with copyright. Choose images without copyright restrictions, your own pictures or images from Wikimedia (Wikipedia)
• On the right you can see last year's project's logo:
5. Remember that these activities are part of your English language curriculum.

eTwinning Project: East or West Home is Best

This year's eTwinning project is about places: where we are from, places we have visited and places we would like to visit.

• This is the link to the project. 
• And here you will be able to read what our project is about.

Our first activity will be to log in (as your teacher for your username and password) and introduce yourselves in this Padlet. You can use videos, photographs, text, etc.