Class Activities for English Project: Italy and Poland Cultural Exchange - 2n ESO by Anna Agulló

Virtual City Tour Presentation

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students work in pairs to create a virtual tour presentation of a famous city in either Italy or Poland. They must research landmarks, cultural spots, and interesting facts, then present their findings in English to the class. This helps practice speaking skills and vocabulary related to travel, culture, and geography.

Duration: 30-40 minutes
Materials: Digital presentation tools, internet access

Recipe Exchange Challenge

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students research traditional recipes from Italy and Poland, then create an English cooking tutorial video or presentation. They must explain ingredients, steps, and cultural significance of the dish using proper English vocabulary related to food and cooking.

Duration: 45 minutes
Materials: Recipe templates, presentation materials

Cultural Festival Role-play

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students organize a mini cultural festival where they role-play as tour guides, shop owners, or local residents from either Italy or Poland. They must interact with their classmates in English, sharing information about their assigned country's customs, traditions, and daily life.

Duration: 40 minutes
Materials: Props, country fact cards

Language Compare and Contrast

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students create Venn diagrams comparing common phrases in Italian, Polish, and English. They research and present interesting similarities and differences between the languages, including false friends and unique expressions.

Duration: 30 minutes
Materials: Venn diagram templates, dictionaries

Cultural News Report

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

In small groups, students create and perform a news report about current events or interesting facts from Italy or Poland. They must use proper English news reporting vocabulary and structure.

Duration: 35 minutes
Materials: News report template, recording devices

Famous Figures Interview

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students research and role-play interviews with famous historical or current figures from Italy and Poland. One student plays the interviewer, another the famous person, practicing question formation and past/present tense usage.

Duration: 30 minutes
Materials: Biography cards, interview question templates

Cultural Scavenger Hunt

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Create a digital scavenger hunt where students must find specific information about Italy and Poland online, answering questions in English about geography, culture, history, and current events.

Duration: 40 minutes
Materials: Scavenger hunt worksheets, internet access

Festival Calendar Creation

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students research and create an illustrated calendar of important festivals and celebrations in Italy and Poland, describing each event in English and explaining its significance.

Duration: 45 minutes
Materials: Calendar template, art supplies

Sports and Games Exchange

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students research popular sports and games from both countries, then teach their classmates how to play them using English instructions. They must explain rules, scoring, and cultural significance.

Duration: 35 minutes
Materials: Sports equipment, game instructions

Music and Dance Workshop

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students explore traditional and modern music from both countries, learning basic dance steps or creating English lyrics to popular tunes. They present their creations to the class, explaining the cultural context.

Duration: 40 minutes
Materials: Music player, dance instruction cards

Cultural Art Gallery

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students create artwork inspired by famous Italian and Polish artists or art styles, then write English descriptions and artist statements explaining their work and its cultural influences.

Duration: 45 minutes
Materials: Art supplies, display space

Weather and Climate Comparison

agulloanna933 — 2024-11-15 07:18:46 UTC

Students research and present weather patterns and climate information from different regions in Italy and Poland, creating weather reports and comparing seasonal activities in English.

Duration: 30 minutes
Materials: Weather report templates, maps

comic of dana

2024-11-17 12:46:26 UTC

We are going to make a comic of dana to explain what is happening in Valencia and Malaga in these cases.

We don't talk of characters of this comic.

Duration: It hasn't duration because is it a comic

Materials: Paper, laptop

Comic of a person without vision

2024-11-20 16:58:42 UTC

We are going to make a comic of a person without vision.

The comic is about the disadvantages and difficulties that blind and disabled people have in your day to day.

Duration: It hasn't duration

Material: Laptop, paper, pencil

SCARY STORY

2024-11-22 15:16:51 UTC

Our story is a mix of friends, scream and stranger things. it's about 5 friends are in a bar and a friend from their childhood enters the bar. She is a murderer and wants to take everyone to her world, where they meet many demogorgons and they have to kill them to get out of there.

Duration:it hasn't duration.

Material: laptop, pencil and pen.

Government and how they control us

2024-11-23 20:57:58 UTC

The main idea is to make a film based on "chess" (the game) simbolyzing the diferent pieces are us and how we are just puppets for the main goal from the politicians.

Duration: To concrete

Material: Phone, camera, laptop, cardboard, paintings

Comic to fight agains the bullying

2024-11-24 18:53:19 UTC

We are going to do a comic about a NINJA EGG that fights againts the bullys. It's going to be a humoristic comic to make people happy and introduce to you: Masuji, The Egg...

Duration: It depens on how fast do you read.

Materials: Laptop, paper, and material to draw.

Crafts

2024-11-25 06:15:03 UTC

We could all practice crafts with various materials and later analyze what we have had in common between the two classes, for example, how difficult it is to make or if we had never seen it.

Materials: Paper, scissors, glue, toothpicks...

Duartion: 30 min