| 110402 - from Anneli (Sweden) - 2016-03-06 : "Looking for: Penpals14-15 year- old, English as a second language"
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Hi English teachers!
My name is Anneli and I teach a class of 23 students, 13-14 year olds in English in a school in the Sweden.I'm looking for a class (about the same number of students) somewhere in the world who have been studying English for 4-5 years as their second language and would like to develop their English skills and knowledge about other cultures/people.I'd like to correspond during a year or so from now on. I've done this kind of correspondance before and it's so fascinating to see how the students love this work.
I think that it's a special feeling about getting a letter in your hand that someone has written just for you, so the first letter would preferably be sent by snailmail to the school.Later on I think the easiest way to handle all this must be that we e-mail each other (all the letters), make a list of penpals and send the letters to our students at the same time. This is a suggestion of how we could work:
* First letter; A presentation of the student and questions to the penpal
* Second letter: Write about your country and where you live, questions
* Third letter: Culture and traditions, music,foo etc.
* Fourth letter: A presentation about a special subject e.g inventor, musician, explorer...
Maybe you have more ideas but 3-4 letters would be a great start and after that the students can go on writing if they like. Are you interested? I hope so, then write to me.
All the best, Anneli Larsson |