Some weeks prior to our meeting, the students prepared some questions for their European partners to get to know about other European schools, cities and countries. These are some of the questions that the Spanish students prepare for their Swedish partners:
“At the school, do you have to wear uniforms?
Lund is more or less like Zaragoza? (in size and population)
At school, do you learn Spanish?
Is there a subway or a tram in Lund?
Do families in Sweden usually have pets at home?
Do families usually live in mountains or in towns?
How many sons have families in Sweden?
In Sweden, are your houses very big?
Do you prefer your school or our school?
What type of sports do you usually play?
Is Lund a city or a town?”
Students were monitored by teachers when writing the questions, but we allowed them to create their own questions so that they could reflect their own concerns. We tried not to interfere when they were producing their questions, to make them more autonomous and fluent when using English as a lingua franca.
PRESENTATIONS
Then, they shared these questions in Google Drive, so that all of them could read those questions and therefore, all of them prepared their presentations based on those items.
These are some extracts from the presentation that the Swedish students prepared to give information their European partners about their school, country and city:
About their school:
“• It is from the 6th grade to the 9th. In each grade there are four classes.
• There are around 400 students at Fäladsgården.
• All the students have their own computer that the school offers.
• The lessons are about 1 hour.
• We start and finish school different times everyday.
• It is from the 6th grade to the 9th. In each grade there are four classes.
• There are around 400 students at Fäladsgården.
• All the students have their own computer that the school offers.
• The lessons are about 1 hour.
• We start and finish school different times everyday.
• We study math, Swedish, English, Spanish/French/German, handcraft, art, sports, religion, geography, civics, history, chemistry, biology, technology and physics.
• In 6th grade you choose an extra language you want to study.
• The food is great some of the time.
• We eat pretty often fish and different meat-dishes, for the vegetarians there are is vegetarian-table with food they can eat.”
About their city:
“There are about 110,000 people living in Lund.
• In Lund, you can visit the huge cathedral called “Domkyrkan”.
• In May, the weather in Lund is really nice. It’s usually about 15 degrees, and sunny.
• Höje å is a popular river right outside Lund.
• Lund is a very historical city. For example the war between Denmark and Sweden called “Slaget vid Lund”, was exposed here.
• Lund is not the capital of Sweden, but it’s a pretty famous city.
• Lunda knake is a famous dish for Lund, it’s a kind of sausage.
• The landscape in Skåne is very flat, with lots of fields. Skåne is a peninsula, which means that we have coasts surrounding the landscape. When the rape is blossoming, it’s yellow everywhere, and it’s very beautiful!”
About their country:
“Sweden’s capital is Stockholm .
Sweden has about 9.6 million inhabitants.
The country is a very long one, around 2000 kilometres from north to south
Stockholm’s area is about two times bigger than Madrid.
It’s a monarchy which means we have a king and queen. But they have no political power.
‘Swedish’ is our official language.
In town it’s most common to live in a flat, but as soon as you’re coming out of town, it’s often villas.
We eat “not so spicy” food.
It’s common to eat some type of meat with potatoes.
Do you know what meatballs are? Or ‘Falukorv’? It’s a typical Swedish sausage!
In Sweden, there are some pretty big ski-resorts, like Åre, Vemdalen, Idre, Sälen and so on…
Sweden doesn’t have any typical “Swedish” sports.
We do everything from horseback-riding to figure skating!
Popular/famous things in Sweden:
Meatballs, Vasaloppet, candycanes, red cottages, vikings, and much, much more!”
(We have highlighted in bold letters those parts of the presentation that matched the questions prepared by the Spanish students, as shown above. The rest of the information was related to other questions made by other international partners).
Once they had seen all the presentations, they gathered in groups to talk about similarities and differences of the different topics. Those groups were formed by students from different nationalities, so that they could share different ideas and perspectives.
These are the conclusions of a group of students, after comparing different issues related to education:
“All people learn more than one language and all of them learn english.
In Sweden and Germany they end earlier school than in Spain.
In the Swedish school people use laptop but in the Spanish’s school and in the German’s school people don't use it.
In Spain people usually go to the school by bus but in sweden and germany people go walking.”
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