A Day in the Life Of

Our Project

In 2019 we, Freie Schule Guestrow (the coordinator) and Jelgava Secondary School No 5, started an Erasmus+ project, named “A Day in the Life of ...”, with primary aim of raising students' awareness of European culture and history.

Our Focus

We focused on two European countries, Germany and Latvia, with a special emphasis on what life is like in both the countries in different cultural settings. The students had an opportunity to look at, analyse and compare the life of a typical teenager in Germany and Latvia.

Our Results

By the end of the project the students:
  1. had researched, analysed and interpreted historical and cultural concepts of their own country as well as got introduced those ones of their peers' country, which helped them to develop and strengthen their critical thinking skills; the students worked on finding and analysing connections and influences between the past and the present as well as they speculated about the ways those connections might have influenced the values of a typical representative of the youth in Germany and Latvia;
  2. had enhanced their knowledge of history, culture, customs and traditions of their own country and of their peers' country; the first two points have found their reflection in two textbooks, which the students have written themselves under the supervision of their teachers;
  3. had improved their communicative EFL skills since all the communication, both live and online, was performed in English, which is a foreign language for both the sides;
  4. had improved their intercultural competence; the students worked on the concept of stereotyping, thus raising the issue of the necessity of tolerance for a new cultural background, which has also found its reflection in the end products of the project, i.e. two textbooks;
  5. had learned about the life of a typical teenager in a different European country.

Our Book

One of the project's significant results was writing a textbook, consisting of two parts - one part is about Germany and the other one - about Latvia, to learn about those countries as well as to practise English. While working on the project, the students got valuable experience doing research, analysing and interpreting the information, carefully selecting facts, writing texts for the book and creating tasks and activities for the texts.


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