In September, 2003 a new Comenius School Project began. ...

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• INTERESTEEN!
• Comenius School Project
• Spain-United Kingdom-Poland-Romania
• 2003/2004

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The project

• Partners, the schools
• The questionnaire
• Activities
• Sports
• Music
• Friends
• TV Cinema
• Fashion
• Holidays
• Conclusion

In September, 2003 a new Comenius School Project
began. We are four partners from Poland, Romania,
United Kingdom and Spain, being the Spanish
school the coordinator of the project.The project
is called INTERESTEEN! and aims to discover
the interests of teenagers in these four
countries, their similarities and differences
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Partners
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The schools Percentage of students in every
school
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The questionnaire

• A questionnaire about teenagers general
  interests was arranged . Three hundred students
  in each school answered 30 questions.The topics
  dealt with
• Activities in the afternoon
• Sports
• Music
• Friends
• TV and cinema
• Fashion
• Holidays

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Activities

• According to their school timetable the students
  participating in this project finish school
  everyday between 2/3 p.m. in U.K., Poland and
  Spain and later at the Romanian school cause
  they have all their lessons in the afternoon.
• When enjoying their free time they like
  practising sports, listening to music and
  dancing, playing or working with computers and
  watching TV mainly but overall they like meeting
  friends outdoors or at other pals houses, the
  more time they spend with friends , the happier
  they feel.
• Although their timetables are quite different, in
  Spain they stay outdoors or have their meals
  later than in the rest, there are more
  similarities than differences.
• This is what we try to discover about them,
  and in this way, maybe we, adults, understand
  them much better, or maybe not!

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Sports

• The king of sports is football , played by boys
  and girls. Football teams are supported by lots
  of teenagers, but mainly boys go to matches.
  They practise sports regularly at school during
  their Physical Educations lessons, and then in
  the afternoons, at sport centres or parks.
• Depending on the weather and the place where
  they live we find some popular sports, for
  example, in Czestochowa teens go skiing from time
  to time, but skiing is not so popular among the
  other students in U.K., Spain or Romania.
• Among British teenagers sports like cricket,
  hockey, gaelic football or rugby are well known,
  but not often played in the rest of schools in
  our project. Romanians and Spanish go swimming
  more regularly .

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Sports in every school
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Favourite teams in their own country
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Favourite Sport teams from another country
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Music

• Teenagers in every country listen to the same
  kind of music, the one they can dance with . Some
  traditional tunes like banghra among the Asian
  community in Oldham (U.K.), flamenco in
  Aljaraque (Spain), are listened as well. In
  Vaslui traditional hora is their favourite, and
  in Czestochowa polka and oberek is music to
  sing and dance.
• They do not spend much money on music and they do
  not often go to concerts, though a great number
  of them like dancing at discos or at friends
  parties. They start going to discos when they
  are between 12 and 14 years oldmost of the
  Spanish kids start a bit later, between 14-16
  years old.
• Just a few boys and girls play an instrument ,
  the guitar and keyboards being the most usual
  among them. Only a small number like classical
  music and listen to it from time to time.
• Other types of music they listen to
  rap,dance,break-beat,heavy,hardcore, techno,
  garage...

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Music in every schoolWhat about classical music?
...
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Favourite bands and singers in their own country
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Favourite bands and singers from another country
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Friends

• Most of kids go out in groups, in Romania these
  groups of friends are called grup , in U.K.
  its a gang , in Poland they are called
  koledzy and in Spain they go out in a
  pandilla .
• The teenagers meet their friends daily, at
  school, they often go to other friends houses
• When they go out they prefer sharing their
  secrets with a friend of their same sex.
• All of them like visiting other friends homes,
  they usually meet their friends parents there.

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TV Cinema

• Teenagers spend between 2 and 4 hours a day
  watching TV. They hardly go to the cinema, maybe
  once a month or less. They do not know much about
  actors and actresses even from their own country,
  they like American films, mainly action or horror
  films.
• So, heroes like Van Damme, Bruce Willis or Arnold
  Schwarzenegger ( whom many of them do not know
  how to write even his name!) are their
  favourites.
• Looking at the questionnaire we can make a chart
  for each country showing their preferences
  dealing with the type of TV programmes they
  prefer and favourite programmes in each place

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Favourite TV programmes
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Favourite programmes in each country
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Fashion

• Teenagers in our schools do not often go shopping
  , the say they do not spend a lot of money on
  clothes, although they like wearing some popular
  labels, mainly with sport wear like Nike, Adidas
  or Reebok.
• They like wearing casual clothes, sport wear and
  jeans. In Oldham and Vaslui the kids wear uniform
  to go to school, but they say they do not like
  it.
• In Vaslui students prefer bright colours when
  buying or wearing clothes in Aljaraque and
  Oldham like dark colours the most and in
  Czestochowa they like wearing both.
• About the most popular shops for teenagers in
  every place we are showing next chart

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Popular shops for teenagers
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Holidays

• Teenagers use to go out for a day trip with their
  family, they go to the seaside, to the
  countryside or to visit relatives living in close
  towns.
• They travel by car or by coach overall. A
  significant difference is found in the British
  teenagers, as they are living on an island they
  are used to travel by plane more often than the
  others, it is only a small number of kids in the
  other schools who have ever travelled by plane.
• When they are asked about their dreamt holidays,
  many of them dream of exotic places, some like
  the Caribbean or the Seychelles Islands or of a
  trip around the world!!!!
• Here is a chart where we summarise the most
  popular places they would like to go if they had
  to plan a trip.

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Most popular places to go on a trip