European Bedtime Stories. EDL 2019! ESL content

European Bedtime Stories. EDL 2019!Our ESL contents.

Map of european languages

EUROPEAN MAP OF LANGUAGES Dear teachers visitors, Dear visitors, Do your students know the European countries' languages? Can help us complete the map? Thanks;

What is eTwinning?

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EDLPoems

Collaborative poems Teachers'work on proverbs (Not public) Dear teacher visitors, Dear visitors, We have written poems to illustrate the European Day of Languages; there also some translations in other languages. You can have your students work on our poem for EDL. You can have them write their own acrostic poems! Enjoy ! (You can download those pictures in a click.)

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EUROPEAN PLUS MAP OF BEDTIME STORIES

European Plus map of Bestime Stories Dear teacher visitors, Dear visitors, Click on the blue title above to discover our interactive map (like this one on the picture); each interaction will lead you to an audio ebook written during our eTwinning project. Our students suggest you traditional stories from their countries that they have re written, illustrated and recorded with their teachers. You can use them to have your students work their reading and understanding skills at school or at home. They can also work their listening and speaking skills. PLEASE, don't forget to leave us a comment under the ebooks; this could be a writing task for your students, they could learn how to express gratitude and surprise. Thanks.

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story cards deck,packagingand rules

Dear teacher visitors, Dear visitors, After working on our European Story Map, we suggest you to play our gorgeous Story Cards! But you can choose to play directly with our cards. Students will have fun playing and interacting in real life with friends in English. They will read our bedtime stories, to train their storytelling skills according to the rules. Those cards will allow the students to work on grammar and vocabulary if you feel like it. For example, you can have your students describe the pictures, give their opinion, change the tense of the stories... You can have them invent new rules (can, must...), play guessing games... You can work on European culture discussing these European stories while playing. You can ask your students to tell you what country their stories are from, what they learn from those countries reading those stories... or what they know from those stories. Why not ask them if they enjoy playing with those cards? You can print the deck clicking here: 8 story-card desck (+ packaging to print) You can have your students play from home or computers: Play our cards online You will need those rules to play TWO WAYS TO PLAY! 1. The 8 Stories! (2 to 4 players) By Brigitte Collomb A. First, one of the players shuffles and deals 8 cards to all participants. The remaining cards are placed face down to form a pile of spares. To start a game, the first player on the left of the dealer begins; he asks the person on his left if he has the card he wants (for example: In the story of Little Red Riding Hood, I would like part 1… / Can I have part 1… ?). If the questioned player has this card, he must pass it over to the player who asked the question. If the person asked does not have the right card, she says “Pick a card!” The asker must then draw the top card of spare cards. B. If this player is lucky to pick the requested card; he must say aloud “Lucky dip! And he can thus replay by requesting another card from the next player on the left. If he does not pick the requested card, it is up to the player on his left to request a card of his choice to the player on his left. C. Please note! A player can only request a story card if he already has one of the requested stories in his game. D. If a player has a whole story (the 6 cards), he must say “I have finished the story … ” then he puts this story down in front of him, and he reads it to his opponents. The game continues until either someone has no cards left in hands or the stock runs out. E. The winner is the player who then has the most Stories. F. In case two players have 4 stories, each player chooses one and asks the other player three questions about this story, the one of the two who answers the most questions correctly won. 2. Mixed stories. (If you don't print the story numbers) By Chiara Sabatini Number of players: 6 players, 1 "judge" How to play: Don't forget to print 2 copies of the same game! A. Give 2 random cards to each player, make sure no one can see them; B. You all have a minute to read the sentences written on the two cards you have and to predict what part of the story each card is (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); C. Once everyone is ready, the judge will count to five, and each player who thinks they have card number one will deposit it (face up); D. The judge will read aloud the sentence corresponding to card 1, each player who has placed a different card will be eliminated, and the slower of the two players who have placed the correct card will also be eliminated; E. Repeat with each card until the judge has read the six sentences. Rule: - Don't take a look at the judge's script! - Don't take a look at other people's cards! - Once you have deposited a card, you cannot take it back! - If you are eliminated, do not help the other players by increasing the cards, whispering or distracting the others; This is cheating!

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eBook: Chips the lucky puppy!

To the ebok: Chips the lucky puppy! Dear teacher visitors, Dear visitors, Click on the blue title above to discover our interactive ebook. This time, our students suggest you the story they have written, illustrated and recorded organized in European teams with the project partners. (Everything is explained in the ebook.) This story is more modern; it is a story with current themes: caring about stray animals, rich people do not deserve more than others. You can use it traditionally: You can have your students work their reading and understanding skills at school or at home. They can also work their listening and speaking skills. They can work their grammar or vocabulary. PLEASE: Don't forget to leave us a comment under the ebooks; this could be a writing task for your students to; they could learn how to express gratitude and surprise. Thanks.

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Project teaser

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Ourfinal magazine

Dear teacher visitors, Dear visitors, Click on the picture to get to our final magazine which is a simple presentation for you but also for the students' parents and for the students.

Council of Europe European Day of Languages (website)

Brigitte Collomb, FranceReading bedtime stories is still part of our routine today even if my son is nearly 10. I truly believe this shared activity has helped us strenghten the family emotional bonds as well as it has permitted Bastien to develop his listening skills, his language mastery and imagination. I also think it has encouraged him to become successful and good thanks to the values and moral countained in good stories. Bedtime stories can have encouraged him to be a reader. Rita Ogliari, Italy- We used to...My daughter is now a smart creative argumentative teenager. I sometimes think back to when we used to read stories before going to bed and she often pretended to read me one: all characters and plots mixed up. Great fun, indeed!!! Gergana Dimitrova, BulgariaNow that visual stimulation is served up via television, IPads, IPhones, Xbox etc., children rarely get to tap into their imaginations unless we read to them, or until they can read. For me, there was nothing cozier than to listen to my mom or dad read to me when I was a child. As a mom, that same cozy, loving feeling was present when I read to my children. I also discovered reading to my children was a great way to get them to fall asleep just by lowering my energy level and reading in a monotone when I could see they’re eyelids were beginning. Once you’re all snuggled up with your child for bedtime stories, it’s a great time to influence him/her with life lessons by agreeing or disagreeing with events in the book to droop. Francesca MortellitiReading bedtime stories gives you a sense of calm and serenity and positive thoughts about the future! Eftihia Chroni ,GreeceAs already told,storytelling helps parents bond with their little one,helps to improve interaction between them and their children and enhance their creativity from an early age.Reading bedtime stories with well-defined morals has proved to increase the moral values too.Reading time is the right time to teach them life lessons. This can improve their personality ,knowledge, imagination and communication with others as they can use new words to think, feel and express their feelings. I used to read a lot to my children when they were younger.It was a special time in the day and everyone longed for it. They still recall these moments and their favourite stories.