EUROPEAN QUALITY LABEL

Both of the project partners received the European Quality Label! Congratulation to all pupils and looking forward to working with you in the next eTwinning project LIFE SNAPS.

Happy Turkish pupils

THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR

The end of the school year is coming so it is the right time for the pupils to take their postcards home. It was funny that some of the pupils forgot which postcards are theirs. Bye bye colourful postcrossing board!

MY FAVOURITE STAMP

The pupils who did not described their stamps orally, created a Word document. They were asked to write 10 sentences. I think they did very well!

END-OF-PROJECT COMPETITION

End-of-project competition becomes a must in each project at our school. Pupils like it and they are excited to be the best, to know the most about the project and all the activities. This time they could win an eTwinning notebook from France! The pupils were asked 20 questions via Facebook and the fastest to answer each question got a point. 

The winner was Kačka, the second place went for Míša. Congratulation!

VIDEO WITH ANIMALS AND ACTIONS

One English lesson we had a task in our course book: "Work with a partner. Mime an animal. your partner must guess what animal you are and what your are doing. Take turns." Why not to prepare a video for our Turkish friends to guess!?  Yes! And here it is!

 

And here are the "animals"! :-)

The pupils were doing great and they are really fun to work with. Nice way to practise also the present continuous.

DIFFICULT TIMES IN OUR COUNTRIES

CZECH PUPILS SPEAKING TURKISH

We tried to speak Turkish. It was hard but big fun! We used Google translator and Voki character for hearing our sentences in Turkish. Some of us had problems at first to hear anything but at the end we filmed a video and hopefully, the Turkish pupils will understand something. ;-)

ETWINNING T-SHIRTS

It was time to reward Czech pupils for their work for the project. Kačka was the most productive Postcrosser. She has received 46 postcards herself, so she got one eTwinning T-shirt. The rest of the pupils who got the T-shirts were drawn randomly because all the pupils were working hard the whole year and all of them deserved it! :-)

Lucky pupils!

TURKISH PUPILS SPEAK CZECH

Turkish pupils tried to speak Czech this week. Check it out. They are doing great!

 

They also wrote for their new Czech friends a huge postcard. :-)

Czech pupils started to learn Turkish. Hopefully, the voki character will help them...

DO YOU KNOW OUR NAMES?

Czech pupils created a video trivia game for Turkish pupils. Who got the most points? ;-)

MY FAVOURITE STAMP

Each class have received through postcrossing a few postcards. In this activity the pupils talk about the stamps they like. They choose from the stamps from the postcards they received. Turkish pupils decided to make short videos, the Czech pupils recorded their talking about stamps through FOTOBABBLE.

Ismail talks about his favourite stamps

Mertcan talks about his favourite stamps

Nermin and her favourite stamp

Ondřej: http://www.fotobabble.com/m/SVZ3Zm5OU29OT289

Jirka: http://www.fotobabble.com/m/ampUZmtDUFozd1k9

Petr: http://www.fotobabble.com/m/TmYxdGhjeUlnRHM9

Matěj: http://www.fotobabble.com/m/YjNHcGlnRjVMWlE9

STAMP QUIZ

First our pupils drew stamps from various countries. Then they wrote a few sentences about their chosen country. Then their drawings were used for a stamp quiz!

Boys know what to do!

Martin and Michal thinking which country to choose

Buse and Merve Ece like working together so much

Stamps drawn by pupils from the Czech Republic

Here you can try your world knowledge in the Czech stamp quiz. Do you know the answer for the fist question?

And here is the Turkish stamp quiz:

MY NEW FRIEND

Czech and Turkish pupils were put in small groups. They contacted and found out information about each other. Czech pupils made paper posters about their new friends. Turkish pupils filmed a short videos talking about the Czech pupils.

Paper posters created by Czech pupils

Turkish pupils talk about their new Czech friends

TUTORIALS FROM TURKEY

Pelinay from Turkey and her schoolmates will show you how postcrossing works. 

Pelinay

Turkish pupils also created two postcrossing video tutorials:

In English

In Turkish

POSTCROSSING TUTORIALS

These days we finished filming Postcrossing Tutorial Videos. The filming was quite hard since we could film only in our English lessons and they are short. However, I am sure the pupils liked it more than ordinary English lesson! ;-)
We filmed two versions, one version is in English and one version is in Czech for our friends who can´t speak English well.

A few photos from filming

English Version

Czech Version

DÜZCE - HOMETOWN OF OUR TURKISH FRIENDS

Our Turkish project friends live in a town called Düzce that is 1882 kilometres far from Uherské Hradiště. If we took our car it would take more than 20 hours to get there. It would be much more faster to go by plane, of course! :-)

The Turkish teacher Tugba writes more about her hometown:

The city of Düzce has approximately 323 328 inhabitants and it is situated in West Black Sea Region, in the middle of Ankara and İstanbul. It is 40 km to seaside. It has got a magnificient nature and involves different ethnic groups as a cultural mosaic. 

It is also available for cycyling. Because the city center is so flat and everyday about 3 000 cyclists are in the traffic. In fact the word "düzce" means "quite flat". However, the periphery is covered by mountains full of plateaus. 

In 1999 the city was flatten by a big earthquake. But now it is being rebuilt and growing.

The City center in Düzce

An old man watching rafters on the river Melen

Tugba says more about the earthquake:

"It affected mainly 3 cities one of which was ours. We were sleeping when it started. It let us go out safe. But the building were badly damaged. Then the town was destroyed in the second earthquake 2 months later. We were safe. No injury."

The Earthquake in Düzce in 1999

TURKISH CLASS

This is a video where you can meet some of our Turkish friends. You can see the pupils wear school uniforms. Also the seating is a bit different than in the Czech classrooms.

VIDEO PRESENTING OUR POSTCARDS

We decided to present some of our postcards in a short video.

The link to this video was sent to the people who sent us the postcards. Some of them even replied! Thank you! :-)

 

DRAWING A NEW ADDRESS

Our classes are divided into groups. Each group draws their own address where they write. They also  choose a postcard for the person the systems gives them.

VOKI CHARACTERS

We wanted to introduce ourselves in an intersesting way so we decided to create VOKI characters. These characters speak instead of us, they say what we are like and more.

Czech pupils creating voki characters

Here you can see one of our vokis:

Martin from the Czech Republic

POSTCROSSING SITES

The Turkish pupils decied to be STARSOFTHE FUTURE and this is their site at Postcrossing.

The Czech pupils are WINDKIDS and this is their site. 

Here are the postcards the Czech pupils have received since the beginning of the school year, before the eTwinning project was created. Although the postcards are still hanging on a board in our school corridor, each postcard has already its owner. They were equally divided among the pupils. ;-)

Choosing the favourites

OUR TURKISH PARTNER

Turkish teacher Tugba has only heard about Postcrossing but she has never tried it. She was very excited about everything and she immediately registered her class in the system.

Tugba, the Turkish teacher :-)

Turkish girls

Turkish class

NEW ETWINNING PROJECT

The impulse to create a new eTwinning project arose from my idea to film a Postcrossing Tutorial video. My Czech school was involved in sending and receiving postcards since October 2012. Since then lots of pupils kept asking us: "What is Postcrossing?" I thought it would be nice to film a tutorial about how the postcrossing works and at the same time got the idea of turning it into an eTwinning project. I placed an advert about looking for an eTwinning partner in the eTwinning system. There was really nobody interested in this project and at the time when Tugba from Turkey replied, I was even thinking to stop looking. However, when Tugba asked: "So when are we starting?" it was clear there WILL be a new eTwinning project devoted to our new hobby!