COMENIUS “LINK” PROJECT PORTUGAL PORTUGAL APRIL APRIL 2007

ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA DI 1°GRADO “C. CASTELLER” PAESE - ITALY

CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

Subjects Involved: Spanish Italian – Education to Citizenship Teachers Involved: Italian Teacher Spanish Teacher

Target Group: Mixed group from three first classes (Secondary School – 11/12 years). Time : Four lessons of two hours per week.

Why choosing these subjects?

1) Similarity between Mother Tongue (Italian) and Foreign Language (Spanish) for students with little competence of L3. (in our school all pupils study English as L2 and Spanish or French or German as L3)

2) All first classes (divided in open class groups”) do activities for reinforcement or consolidation two hours per week (during Italian lessons). The topic of these activities is education to Citizenship.

3) The Spanish teacher is expert in CLIL methodology and is a very helpful person.

Why choosing this topic?

1) Students have already worked in a school Project for UNICEF, so they are quite sensitive about these social problems.

2) Students have little competence of foreign language, so the teachers have chosen a topic to be discussed not only with oral explanation.

Focus 1)On language: choice of not difficult topic, so foreign language can be more easily understood. 2)On contents: the foreign language should not be an handicap in order to learn the content.

Methodology

1) Teachers have: Planned the activities to be proposed; Shortly explained the activities to students; Prepared a list of key-words; Alternated class management with groupwork.

2) Students have synthetized contents they learnt. Possible mistakes have not been corrected at once, but explained afterwards by the language teacher. During the lessons students were allowed to use Mother Tongue in order to not compromise their learning process.

Linguistic Pre-requisites:

The students know : Personal pronouns (subject); The definite and indefinite article; The present time of regular and some irregular verbs; The affirmative imperative of the second person; The verb Gustar; Possesive adjectives; The hours; Adverbs of frequency.

The students are able to: Introduce themselves and introduce people; Talk about family; Give order and istructions; Ask and say the hour; Say what they like and don’t like; Talking about frequency.

Linguistic Objectives:

The unit will help the students to reach the following linguistic objectives:

Consolidate the use of imperative; Learn the verbal structure: tener derecho a; Learn vocabulary connected with human rights.

Educational Pre-requisites:

The students know: What UNICEF is; The meaning and the concept of right/duty, freedom, responsability, identity, peace, human development, cooperation.

Educational Objectives:

The students: Know: 1)The principle articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child; 2)The principle articles of Declaration of Human Rights; 3)Some international Organizations. Compare different customs, cultures and ways of life.

Integrated objectives:

The students: Compare different points of view; Improve some teaching/learning methods; Compare some Italian and Spanish words.

Evaluation of the experience

The final phase consisted in the reflection on the part of the student on their feelings about the experience with reference to their learning process. Finally the teachers guided the students to express the conclusions on the topic.