Comenius Activity 1.3 - School Development
Education and Culture Programme Socrates	Gymnázium Jana Nerudy   (main page)

Comenius Activity 1.1 - Cooperation of Schools

Comenius Activity 1.2 - Language Project

Comenius Activity 1.3 - School Development

"Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum"

School	Gymnázium Jana Nerudy, School of the City of Prague
School Address	Hellichova 3/457, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Coordinating Teacher	Ms. Lýdia Černá
Project Number	CA1 - SD - 01 - 03
Coordinating School	Istituto Tecnico Commerciale "Antonio Zanon"
Address	Piazzale Cavedalis 7, 33100 Udine

Partner Institutions	Web Site	Country	Coordinating Teachers	Year
IM "Duca degli Abruzzi"		Treviso, Italy	Ms. Rosalia Di Nisio	2001-4
ITC  "Antonio Zanon"	www.itczanon.it	Udine, Italy	Ms. Nancy Grilloni	2001-4
ITC le "Contardo Ferrini"	www.istitutoferrini.it	Verbania, Italy	Ms. Marina Federici	2001-4
IES Valldemossa	www.xtec.es/centres/a80318112	Barcelona, Spain	Ms. Maria Angeles Hernandez	2002-4
Lessing-Gymnasium		Lampertheim, Germany	Ms. Marion Rink	2001-2

Objectives of the project

When boundaries between countries disappear and more opportunities of visiting other countries occur, people ask a question:"Am I able to communicate in a foreign language?" Participating at international conferences, working abroad, speaking with people without feeling embarrassed or frustrated, call for a good knowledge of languages. Although publishers offer a wide choice of material for language learners, adults can often achieve fluency only with problems, being quite busy at work, having to take care of their children and deal with many other tasks. Young people are able to learn quickly, however, at school they often have only three classes of foreign languages per week, which is obviously very little. Not everybody can attend a bilingual class or a school specialized in modern languages.

The main target of our project is to support the use of foreign languages within various subjects at our school. Students look for information they need from different sources, and so become acknowledged with terminology and sentence structure of the scientific literature in foreign languages already at secondary school. At university they will not feel limited looking only for books translated into their native language. And what more, in future communication with specialists abroad will become much easier for them. Subject teachers are motivated to improve their knowledge of modern languages not only in their collaboration with students but also due to the opportunity of teacher exchanges abroad. And at last, participating in the common project work, sharing methodology and meeting foreign guests makes the contacts between the subject departments of our school more intensive.

Project activities in class and outside class

	"The Best Translation from English into Czech"
	30 April 2004 - Competition in translating a given text from English into Czech

	Mathematics Competition in English
	29 January 2004 - Competition in Mathematics based on the material in English used in the national rounds of ASHME in the USA

The Fair of Fictive Firms - April 2004
15 April 2004 - "The Fair of Fictive Firms" prepared by students of the second classes, with posters and advertisements also in foreign languages

	Science Project in English
December 2002 - Presentation of a Science topic in English by the students of the first classes

One-week individual teacher exchanges in the partner schools         Schedule of exchanges

Teachers from the project partner schools in Udine and Treviso, Italy, visiting and teaching at GJN, 22 - 26 March 2004 Mr. Alfonso Raspi, Mr. Andrea Carturan, Ms. Renata Moretti

Teachers from the project partner schools in Italy and Spain visiting Prague during the project meeting and teacher exchanges, 2002/3 Marina Federici, Patrizia Casoni, Maria G. del Fabro, Francisc Ibanez, Maria A. Hernandez, Dolors Pasto, Gloria Manau