LCSE Bilingual Exchange Project

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LC-SE Bilingual Exchange Project
By Penny McLaren Johanna Williams
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Bexley Grammar School Welling, Kent
Collège Louis le prince Ringuet La Fare les
Oliviers, Aix-Marseille
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Our Project details
The project involves two Year nine French groups
from England and one class of Troisième and one
class of Quatrième from France. There are
approximately forty pupils involved in the
exchange. The other pupils are also involved in
the letter exchange project and have been finding
out more about the Loire Valley. The staff are
mostly language teachers but we have also
recruited the help of our International Links
Co-ordinator who is also an English teacher.
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Aims and Objectives

• Foster an appreciation of the culture of the
  country of the partner school
• Improve the proficiency of their linguistic
  skills in the target language
• Develop confidence in using the target
  language-particularly in Speaking
• Develop a strong partnership with the link school
  in order for the pupils to create a web-site by
  the end of the 2 year project
• To make language-learning more real and
  enjoyable!

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Project Agenda-2003

• September
• Exchange of CVs to start up pen-friend links
• First exchange on the topic of holidays in native
  language.
• November
• Bexley Grammar pupils write a letter in French
  about Halloween and Guy Fawkes
• Le Collège Louis le prince Ringuet compile a
  project about festivals and the regional
  tradition of Olive oil Wine production in
  English

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Project Agenda 2003-2004

• December
• Exchange of Christmas cards in foreign language
• January
• Pupils in both schools write about Christmas
  traditions in England and France in the foreign
  language

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Bilingual Exchange Project based at Le Château
de Chambord 2004

• April 1st-5th Pupils from both schools meet! They
  all stay at the C.I.S in Blois
• April 1st Arrival
• April 2nd seminar on Architecture at the chateau
  in English
• April 3rd workshop on Chambord and the
  Renaissance in French
• April 4th seminar on Landscape
• April 5th seminar on understanding the
  Renaissance

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The Year Ahead

• In order to extend the project we will continue
  to correspond with our French partners and
  organise a trip to England
• We will continue with the theme of Castles and
  the pupils will work together to create a
  website.
• The website will improve their ICT skills as well
  as their cultural awareness.This will be the
  final product of the two year project.

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What do our students think?

• I found that exchanging letters was very
  interesting as we can find out what French
  students are like
• I liked knowing what the French peoples lives
  are like and how they compared to ours
• I think that writing to the French person has
  improved my French

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What do our students think?

• I think Ive benefited as I now understand more
  French and their ideas and celebrations
• I have benefited from exchanging letters with
  the French school because it has helped me to
  learn new words and understand French a bit more
• I feel I find French a bit more fun because of
  the pen-pals
• I feel privileged that I get to have my own
  friend from France!
• When I go to the Loire valley I am looking
  forward to practising my French on actual French
  people. The project to the Château de Chambord
  will definitely benefit my French and maybe what
  I know of French life

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Well see.!