to green or not to green

Time for a game!

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Time for a game!

Students do a quiz

http://www.glassforever.co.uk/games.htm

Time for literature!

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Time for literature!

Students read the Greek mith of Echo and Narcissus and make their own considerations

Long time ago, there were Nymphs, beautiful maidens with very long hair. They loved dancing and singing, and their voice was so melodious that enchanted everyone who heard them. One of them, Echo, was a nice and exuberant Nymph: she was always quick on the draw and she knew amusing anecdotes. One day Zeus thought to exploit Eco’s talent to deceive Era, who kept watch on him night and day because of his repeated adulteries. So, he asked her to entertain the goddess with her speeches, as he could be free. Some time after, Era found out the deception and she punished the poor Nymph taking her away the capability to do a meaningful speech. Once, wandering through the woods, Echo met Narcissus, a handsome young boy and falls in love with him. He was Liriope Nymph’s son. Tiresias predicted her that Narcissus could live until he didn’t know himself. So the young boy grew in the country and became an able hunter and extremely good-looking. However, he despised love and moreover, even if he appreciated Eco’s good looks, he couldn’t stand her inability to speak. Because he didn’t know the reason of her speech defect, he didn’t understand her and got annoyed of her. He tried to stave off Echo, sometimes offending her. But she couldn’t detach herself from Narcissus, so she faded until she disappeared, becoming a feeble stammering voiced shadow. Because Narcissus was not affected even then, Nemesis, vengeance’s goddess, punished him realizing Tiresias’ prophecy. Narcissus, thirsty because of the heat, one day got closer to a small lake where he saw his reflection for the first time. He immediately fell in love with his own image and stayed for a long time admiring it, so he exhausted himself until he died. Then a pitiful god transformed him into a white and very perfumed flower that was called Narcissus like him.

Polish etwinners are working on the questions

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questions

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Italian twinners’ questions;

1. Do you do recycle waste collection at home?
2. If yes, how many bins have you got?
3. If yes, what colour are they?
4. Do you have an ecological education at school?
5. IF yes, which activities do you do?
6. Are there medicines and batteries contaners near your house?
7. Do you re-use plastic bags to put the rubbish?
8. How many dumps are there in your area?
9. Do you know what happens to your rubbish?
10. Are there anti-pollution associations in your country?
we are waiting for your answer and then we will compare them.

1 step

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Student sheet

Ist task

match the words to the correct definition

1. to throw away

2. wastepaperbasket

3. disposable

4. reusable

5. rubbish

6. bin

a) (noun) things you do not want anymore

b) (noun) a container used indoors (at home or school) toput unwanted paper in

c) (adjective) describes an object you can useagain

d) (adjective) describes an object you use (oftenonly once) and then put in the bin

e) (verb) to put something you do not want in the bin

f) (noun) a container for things you do not want

check the pronunciation of these words. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx

find synonyms listed and add these to the wordlist

2nd task

put the following items under the correct column:

a tissue – a burned match - acarrier (bag) – tights – shampoo- a refill – a folder – a napkin - a cork – an envelope

disposable	re-usable	hazardous	don’t know

3rd task

visitthe following sites and add 5 items of your choice from each site to the list

http://www.bhs.co.uk/

http://www.elc.co.uk

http://www.whsmith.co.u

Homework

bring in two products from home for the nextlesson (one re-usable and one disposable one).

Step 2: How much waste do you create?

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Step 2: How much waste do you create?

Preparation
Teachers from both partner schools should contact each other to organize the exchange of information for this activity. Teachers should think about timing, number of groups and which system to use to send student contributions. This can be done using the workspace offered on the portal, the TwinSpace or by integrating this project with other projects (e.g. blog/wiki*).

Preparing questionnaires
Then, students prepare a questionaire about what they know and what they would like to know about partner country’s bins.

Students work in pairs and produce a questionnaire to send to partner country.

Teacher may want to elicit or provide some prompts:
For example:
Last week did you throw away….?
Have you ever thrown away….?
Do you use plastic cups?
How often do you ….
Where do you put ….
How much…?
How many…?

Answering questionnaire
c) Students reply to questions/questionnaires and they answer by using flashmeeting and then publishing their answer on the magazine of the project.

Compare
d) When they receive the information from their partner class they can also collate the information and illustrate with a chart.
Students can do this by hand or using PCs (e.g. Office Excel ). First students work out percentages and write them in, then they create a bar chart or pie chart

Online questionnaire
Teacher can ask students what the 3Rs are.
R- for reduce
R- for re-use
R- for recycle
Students can do an online rubbish questionnaire to check how much they know about waste and how good they are at looking after the earth’s resources
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About general facts: http://www.recyclezone.org.uk/fz_brainfull.aspx
About their lifestyles: http://www.recyclezone.org.uk/fz_waster.aspx

ASOPOS (ANOTHER GROUP)

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Pollution Flows in Asopos

Mythologically speaking, the Asopos River is said to
have been born a son of Oceanus and Tethys--or
Poseidon and Pero --or Zeus and Eurynome. There are,
in fact, five rivers of that name, four in Greece and
one in Turkey. All of these rivers have been
historically significant to the populations residing
on their banks; but the one I'm talking about is
possibly the most historically relevant, and currently
the most endangered.

Because death flows in the Asopos River, straight to
the town of Oinofyta.

Death by specific toxins. The river's fish are dead,
and those villages who get their water from the river
will soon be dead or dying. The river runs red-not
just a symbol of death, but literally from the heavy
hexavalent chromium content. The 30,000 residents of
the town of Oinofyta who depend on the river for
drinking water and everything else are trapped by
circumstance; they are suffering, and although the
mayor of that town has declared the water unsafe, they
have no other sources.

Statistics show cancer rates in Oinofyta have risen
from 6% in 1989 to 32% (most current available). The
water's chromium content has tested to be 400,000
times above the permissible maximum.

A number of heavy industry, paint manufacturers and
food manufacturers- at least 85 separate
industries -use the river to dispose of waste. And
even though this past year, six manufacturers were
found guilty of pollution and fined, the rivers still
run with poison.

This is not something we can ignore. The Greek people
should know their own government is turning a blind
eye to this disaster. The whole world should know.

A threefold effort must be put into place:

First, alternative potable water sources must be
secured for those residents who depend on the Asopos.

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Second, the pollution must stop.

Third, the polluters must clean up the mess they have
made of the river, AND the poisoned fields whose
cultivation has for centuries depended on that
now-lethal water. For justice to be served, they must
clean up the injuries they caused in people's lives.

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In the Oinofyta town, the Asopos river turned purple and the river water is to be blamed for local cancer deaths.

Within 60 kilometers north of Athens lies an industrial area. The factories around here keep dumping their industrial waste into the Asopos river polluting the river water. As of now there are no warning signs anywhere. It took several years to figure out that the drinking water of the area had dangerous levels of carcinogen chromium 6.

This particular metal is an anti-corrosive and it is listed under the European Union’s (EU) list of dangerous substances. Consequences can be bad if it comes in contact with the skin or if it’s inhaled or even ingested. The people who died in the region probably died off the river water. An interesting fact is that despite of the potential risks, the govt. officials never bothered to warn people of this chemical since the factories were set up.

A biochemical engineer joined the long battle against the authorities. Initially authorities refused to listen to the allegations related to the water. But, they later changed their mind. Thanasis Panteloglou along with Father Yannis pursued their crusade against the factories. Finally authorities managed to imposed restrictions on these factories.

However, many of them still run illegal underground pipelines to the river in order to dump the industrial waste. I think this is almost as good as mass murder. Environmentalists and authorities need to work together with the factories to stop this kind of river pollution.

Recycling in our eyes!

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Hi everyone! We have done a movie about recycling in our place and not only...

our winner video!!!!!!!!

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hi friends we joyned a competition about learning by e twinning.
We have been awarded and we want to share this victory with you!!

our culture in a slide show

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

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THE VERY BEST WISHES OF MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY, SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR 2009!

Something nice about our place

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Hello friends! We have prepared a short film for us. Hope you will enjoy it!

Our school

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Our school is situated in a wonderful place called Luborzyca, 18 km from Krakow. In this picture you can see the school and neighbourhood. Do you like it?

Our school

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Our school is situated in a wonderful place called Luborzyca, 18 km from Krakow. In this picture you can see the school and neighbourhood. Do you like it?

Our school

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Our school is situated in a wonderful place Luborzyca, 18 km from Krakow. In this picture you can see the school and neighbourhood.

More about us...

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Hi there! We are Monika, Ania, Weronika and Karolina. We have recorded a short film about ourselves. We wanted to tell you a bit more about us. We had fun! We hope you'll like it.

a wonderful group looking for friends

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Luborzyca, our place

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We live in a wonderful place near Krakow. In this picture you can see our school and the nearest neighbourhood. It is great!

Polish Team

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Hello our Italian and Greek friends!!!

We are students from Gimnazjum im. Sw. Jadwigi Krolowej w Luborzycy. We are Monika, Lidia, Sylwia, Klaudia, Karolina, Ania, Weronika. We like meeting new people, making friends and we are happy to work on this project with you. In our opinion it does not matter which part of the world we live in because we all have the same happiness and similar troubles. We think that teenagers all over the world like the same things: music, sport, meeting friends, fun.

Polish Team

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Hello our Italian and Greek friends!!!

Polish Team

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Hello our Italian and Greek friends!!!

Polish Team

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Hello our Italian and Greek friends!!!

GREECE!

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HELLO! We are the students from Greece!
From left 2 right:
1st row: Sofia, Ioanna, Andreas, Grigoris, Popi, Juliano, Sotiris, Loukas
2nd row: Dimitris, Eydoksia, Magda, Vlassis, Spyros, Christos, Thodoris, Yiannis, Dimitrakis, Panayiotis (the tall one!), Aris
3rd row: Teacher (Ermioni)

SOTIRIS-SOFIA WROTE: Hellooooo…our friends from Italy. We inform you that we will continue our contact. through emails and letters.. So we will start with our names.Im Sotiris but you can call me The Best. And my classmate is Sofia.. We support Livorno A.C. Brigate Autonome Livornesin are the best. To continue with we want to learn about your interests.

As far as the earth pollution and the earth problems is concerned we have many concerns about the world. Here in Oropos we are very active and we do many actions so as to save the environment. Our Major takes a lot of responsibilities recycling bins and plenty of
other actions so as to give some more breathes to the earth.

ATHENA-ANDREAS WROTE:
Dear Italian friend,
We are two beautiful students from Oropos. Oropos is located 50 km far from Athens.
We are in the second class of high school and we are liked in maths, physic and biology.
Me, Athena, I visited Italy two years ago, especially Roma. I think it is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
Well, I am interested in music, dance and shopping.
Me, Andrew, I have visited Italy too before 5 years, so I do not remember nothing except of pizza and ice cream.
Oh yes, the pizza was fantastic!!!
The only problem that we faced was that the Italians do not know the English language well, so we couldn’t understand each other.
We want to visit Italy again and see and other cities.
Well, we live in oropos. Oropos is a very nice place by the sea.
We have lots of green, clear air and we are away of city’s pollution.

LOUKAS-JULIANO WROTE:
We are from the most beautiful country, which is this country? Of course Greece. my name is juliano and I am here with my best friend Loukas. You are wondering why we are sending this letter. The reason why we do this is that we have heard that italian girls are very sexy and mysterious they are also good in bed but to me and Loukas it makes no sense. The only thing we want to do is to make a bit conversation.
I will try to describe our school and the place we live. We live in coastal area which is named Oropos. It is located in northeast Attiki near Athens. Our school is isolated from the rest city and is the newest high school here in Oropos. What about you?
We all know that environmental problems is the issue that we (the new generation)will try to solve. Here in Greece there are a lot factories that pollute the environment. So the real reason why we sent this message is to try to discuss about the environmental problem that nowadays concerns a lot of people from all over the world.
And something more how many kinds of pizzas and spaghetti do you have?

DIMITRIS-ARIS WROTE:
Hi…My name is Dimitris….I’m 16,5 years old and I live in a small village next to Athens, which named Oropos….I’m excited with this program that is taking place in my school, the first high school of Oropos….I like playing sports, like football, basketball and volley, listening to music, seeing movies in the video and going out with my friends….Moreover I play in the football team of Sikamino and my favorite bands are Arch Enemy, Nightwish and Lacuna Coil…..My favorite teams are Manchester United, Panathinaikos and Athletic Madrid…. I think that this program can give us the opportunity to discuss themes about the ecological problem and I’m looking forward to connect with you…..
My name is Aris and I’m 16….I live in Sikamino, a village a little away from Oropos…..I’m good at football and I play in the football team of Sikamino….I, also, play basketball and I like pop music…..My favorite team is, the champion of greek superleague, Olympiakos. Other teams I like are Liverpool and Bayern Munchen…

CHRISTOS-THEODORE WROTE:
Bojorno, we are Christos and Theodore. We are from high school of Oropos in Greece.
We are 16 year old and we are good students. Our favorite sports are football and Basketball.Cristos favorite team is MILAN and mine is AEKfc.His favorite football player is Kaka. Mine is Ishmael Blanco.
We are like very much NBA.Our favorite team in NBA is Boston Celtics.
We like to go internet cafes and clubs with our friends every Saturday.
.Our favorite foods are pizza, spageti and pastitsio.
We have many forests in Greece and we have much oxygen here.
For many years we have a very important problem. Many factories are polluting our river Asopos.We love very much Italy and one day we want to visit you.

MAGDA-GREGORY WROTE:
Dear Italian friends
We are Magda and Gregory...We’re going at the first high school of Oropos...Oropos is one of the most beautiful areas in Greece. Oropos is about 50km away from Athens. We are writing this letter because we want to get to know you better…How many types of pizzas do you have finally??? I am sure that our pizzas are better than yours…
Me, Greg who I’m the most gorgeous guy in my High school…I m 17 and my interests are football, football and of course FOOTBALL!!!
Now about my friend Magda…She is 16 and her interests are modern dance and volley.
Let’s get serious now ,we care about environmental problems…and we hope to do something to solve it. We want you to support us..

VLASSIS-IOANNA-POPI WROTE:
HELLO GUYS OURS NAMES ARE VLASSHS, JOANNA AND POPI ..!!!WE ARE STUDENTS OF OROPOS (GREECE) HIGH SCHOOL..!OUR FAVORITE TEAM IS PANATHINAIKOS fc….AND WE LOVE ITALY ….WE ARE VERY HAPPY WITH OUR COOPERATION …WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO CONTACT WITH U WITH E-MAILS…!!!!!WE RESPECT OUR PLANET AND OUR ECOSYSTEM… ……………..WE CONCERN AND WORRY ABOUT THE POLLUTION OF OUR PLANET ….!!!!!!!WE WANT TO BE ACTIVE MEMBERS OF IT’S SAVE..!!!!!
PLEASE HELP US……GOOD LUCK ….CYA………(****CIAO****) ..!!!!
P.S WE WANT TO TRAVEL IN YOUR COUNTRY VERY MUCH ..BECAUSE IS VERY BEAUTIFUL..!!!!!! OUR INTERESTS ARE DANCE , BREAK DANCE ABOUT POPI & JOANNA...MY FAVORITE INTEREST ARE TRAINNING (RUNNING)& BILLIARDS…ALSO I LIKE TO LISTEN HIP-HOP &HEAVY METAL MUSIC LIKE JOANNA…ESPECIALLY GREEK HIP-HOP..!!!

YIANNIS-SPYROS-PANAYIOTHS WROTE:
Ø Hi my name is John. I’m living into Oropos witch is 46km far from Athens. I go to high school in Oropos. My favorite sports is football, my team is A.E.K. and my favorite player is Ismael Blanco. In my free time I listen hip-hop music. I take part in a team of people that they work for our environment. I’m really disappointing with that mess.

Ø Hi! I’m from Markopoulo City, which is 45km far from Athens. My name is Spyros and I’m 16,5 years old ,so I’m going at high school. In my free time I like to play PES2009. I also like to hear Rock, R&B and rap music. My favorite sport is football and I play in the team of Oropos for at about 3 years. My favorite team is Olympiacos F.C. and I like Diogo. As for Italian teams I like INTER MILANO and my favorite player is Ibrahimovic!! Italy is cool!!!

Ø Hi!!!! My name is Panagiotis. I’m 16 years old. My favorite team is PANATHINAIKOS F.C. I live in Markopoulo City and I go to the high school in Oropos.

We are very sad about the situation that exists in our planet! We want to work hard to get the things in their old order!!`
We are also disappointed for last summer’s fires in our country and that our government don’t do anything for the recovery of the Greek forests!!!

EYDOKSIA-DIMITRAKIS WROTE:
Dear Italian friends,
Hi, my name is Eudoxia and I am 16 years old. I am in the second year of high school which is in Oropos. Oropos is an amazing place with beautiful beaches and great people.
My hobbies are, listening to any kind of music, reading mysterious books, taking photos with my sister and of course I love DANCING.
The environmental problems it’s a matter that should concern all of us. So, I decided to join the team that occupies with the project ‘TO GREEN OR NOT TO GREEN"
HI MY NAME IS JIMMY AND I AM 16 YEARS OLD. I LIKE FOOTBALL AND I AM VERY INTERESTED IN ECOLOGIC PROBLEMS!

Our PhOtO's

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The nicest!! :)

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OUR GROUP!

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Francesca Gabriella Giuseppe Giorgia valentina

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Hi, we are students from the liceo of Monopoli, in Italy. We will be your partners in the e-twinning project. Here, there are our descriptions. We hope you'll answer soon to us, and we can't wait to receive your e-mails.

Hello! I'm Francesca, but all the people call me Frasca, I'm fifteen years old. I'm medium height and thin, I have got long, brown, straight hair and brown eyes. In the photo I am in the middle and I wearing a white shirt and blue jeans. I play the violin and I began conservatorio when I was ten. I’m love dancing very much and I'm keen on reading. Now I go to the “liceo classico” school and I like it because I think that it's very important for my education, moreover, I hope to become a teacher of Italian litterature in the future, because I love humanistic subjects. I've never been in Poland but I would like to go there. As far as concerns this project I think that it's fantastic and I hope to see you soon.

Hello! My name is Giuseppe. I'm fifteen years old. In this photo I am on the left, near Gabriella. I was born and I live in a small city facing on the sea called Mola di Bari in the south of Italy. I'm a tall and slim boy with short, brown hair, brown eyes and a small mouth. I attend the classical liceum Galileo Galilei in Monopoli. I have a lot of hobbies like reading history books and I attend a special school of music, the “conservatorio”, where I play the cello and the piano, and this year I started to attend a course on composition as well. I don't like sports, so I only go to the gym. In my family there are four people: my father aged forty five, my mother aged forty two, my little brother aged two, and me. My father is a furniture seller and my mother helps him in this job while my brother attends the first year of primary school. I would like to become a musician... It would be fantastic if I could travel around the world. I'm very happy to do this project with you!!!

Hello! I'm Giorgia but everybody calls me Gioy. I'm fourteen years old and I'm the youngest in my class. I'm medium height, I have got long straight hair, Brown eyes and in the picture I'm on the right and I’m wearing a green and blue T-shirt. I dance twice a week.. I love reading, playing with my dog and swimming in the sea in summer. I'm an only child. I love going shopping and sometimes I go with my friends to the cinema. We are keen on seeing comedies and musicals like “High School Musical”. My favourite dishes are pasta with basil sauce and meatballs. I'm very curious to know your typical dishes. I'm very happy for this partnership. I'm sure that we will become friends!

Hello, I'm Gabriella and I'm fifteen. I'm tall and thin and I've got long, wavy, brown hair and brown eyes. I'm friendly, a little bit shy and clever. In the photo I'm between Giuseppe and Francesca and I’m wearing a beige light sweater. I live with my parents in Monopoli, a small town with a wonderful sea, and I'm an only child. I've got a dog, Piccio. He is very nice and joyful and I love playing with him. Actually, I attend the “liceo classico” but for now I don't know what I would like to do in the future. I like studying and my favourite subjects are Maths and English, but I also like the other subjects. In my spare time I love reading, especially adventure and fantasy books. Than I'm fond of listening to rap and pop music and going out with my friends. Moreover, I do “aikido”, a defensive martial art, and till last year I used to play the violin in my secondary school. I'm very happy to meet you on the net and I'm sure this twinning project will be interesting and exciting. I hope to see you soon, with love, Gabriella.

Hi! I'm Valentina but my friends call me Vale. I'm fifteen years old. I'm medium height and thin. I've got long, brown, wavy hair, and my eyes are brown, too. In the photo I’m wearing a light blue sweater and I'm next to Giorgia. I love swimming and listening to music. In my spare time I like going out with my friends and going to the cinema. I love animals, especially tigers, dolphins and cats, in fact I've got three cats: Ricola, Pollo and Nasina. My favourite dishes are meat and chips, lasagne and pizza; in fact on Saturday evenings I go out with my friends in the square of Monopoli and than we usually go to a pizzeria to eat a pizza. I study a lot of subjects: Latin, Greek, Italian, History, Geography, Religion, P.E., Maths and English, but my favourite subjects are Italian and English. And you, what do you do on Saturday evenings? Where do you go when you go out with your friends? What are your typical dishes? I'm very happy for the twinning and I hope that we will become penfriends. Bye bye, Vale.

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October 25Th hh10 First lesson

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Today we have had our first lesson !
This time we are starting working as a class in a projectthat has to be carried on as a cross curricular one.
We have agrred about the main line of the project and the basic organization

division into groups (4 groups)
the roles inside each group(administrators, itc expert, journalist)
the first task: introducing (they have taken photos or made videos).

Very nice and different lesson, isn't it?