Preparatory Meeting Report

Comeni Comenius Multilateral Partnership 2010/2012 Different Languages – Same Speech

Comenius Multilateral Partnership supported by EU

Portugal Austria Iceland Italy

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Comeni Comenius Multilateral Partnership 2010/2012 Different Languages – Same Speech

Preparatory Meeting Massa e Cozzile, Italy January 11th to January 15th, 2010

From January 11th to 15th 2010, the four future partner rtner countries (Portugal, Austria, Iceland and Italy Italy) of the Comenius project Different Languages – Same Speech 2010-2012, attended a Preparatory Meeting in Massa e Cozzile, Cozzile in Italy in the host school Istituto Comprensivo Statale Bernardo Pasquini..

The Comenius Team

The Host Partners

The main aim of this Preparatory Meeting was to prepare the application form to apply to LLP, Comenius Partnerships. The aims were fulfilled.

In this meeting we have the opportunity to bridge four countries to reach different cultures, habits, traditions, life styles and school systems, systems which also gave ve us the chance to getting to know each other better.

The five teachers from the four countries started to plan the 2 year-project year Different Languages – Same Speech 2010 2010-2012. The partners worked during one week, in a perfect understanding atmosphere atmosphere,, sharing experiences and opinion about the future project.

The project wants to focus on improving the pupils' knowledge of English and encouraging them to learn other foreign languages.

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Comeni Comenius Multilateral Partnership 2010/2012 Different Languages – Same Speech

The partnership will start with a Teachers' Meeting in Austria wh where ere the activities for the first year of the project will be arranged. Pupils will make contact with different European realities, get to know each other in order to establish a cultural dialogue. They will get an overview of the Educational System of their thei countries, sharing information and comparing results. Pupils are going to learn and practice phrases about daily tasks and situations in the different languages involved. In addition teachers will set up an e e-platform platform where all documents of the project will ill be downloaded. The e e-platform platform will allow pupils and teachers to communicate and exchange information. A week week-long long exchange for pupils and teachers will take place in Italy, in April. Pupils will present their countries and their educational systems. FFurthermore, urthermore, they will be actively involved in group work activities to practice the phrases they previously learned.

Working on the project

The second Teachers' M Meeting will be held in Iceland, to prepare the educational tools for the second year and discuss the project' progress. During the second year pupils will make use of phrases they learned and practised in a creative way such as drama, role play or PPPs. The final meeting will take place in Portugal. Pupils will share performances in the different ifferent languages of the partnership. In this way they will be able to show their progress. Teachers and pupils will attend a seminar in which they will be informed about The European Lifelong Learning Programme and the importance of learning foreign lan languages for their future.

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Comeni Comenius Multilateral Partnership 2010/2012 Different Languages – Same Speech

During the week in Italy the host school pupils (pre (pre-primary, primary, primary and secondary) preformed a nice story for us. We also visited pre-primary pre and primary schools of Istituto Comprensivo Statale Bernardo Pasquini Pasquini..

Show preformed by the school pupils

We were also given guided tour tours to Pisa, Florence and Lucca. We contact with the school staff and the local authorities.

Visiting Pisa, Florence and Lucca

A farewell dinner was prepared by the host school with typical Italian food and music.

Farewell dinner

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Comeni Comenius Multilateral Partnership 2010/2012 Different Languages – Same Speech

All the partners are glad to a attend this Preparatory Meeting eeting and would like to thank the generous hospitality, the perfect organization of the Italian host school and all the institutions that have cooperated with this future Comenius Partnership during our stay in Italy. It was real a great pleasure.

We are also very thankful to all the Na National tional Agencies who gave us the possibility to attend this meeting and we are looking forward to the approval of this partnership.

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