The students of Class E1 prepared and displayed their project on “Unusual Greek Customs”. The customs chosen were “The Day of Babo” and “First Weekend of Lent”. It was an excellent activity for the students to investigate, learn new vocabulary, use the Present Simple, collaborate.

Here comes the procedure followed:

1. introduction of the project topic
2. assigning the students with the task of finding information in Greek about 2-3 unusual Greek customs
3. having each student choose one custom and describe it in brief in class
4. recording each custom on the board
5. having the students vote for two of the most interesting customs
6. assigning two different students with the task of writing a brief description of each custom and bringing it in the next class
7. distribution of these descriptions in photocopies
8. board translation of the descriptions by the whole class (great collaboration kids!)
9. assigning different tasks to the students: bring stationary, engross text, find photos, write captions, help with the layout, etc.
10. composing the final pieces

In order to help my students better understand and organise their information I also handed them the following questions to answer:

1. Where does this custom take place?
2. When does it take place?
3. What does this custom celebrate?
4. Who can take part?
5. What do people do this day?
6. Where does this custom come from?

Amazing work, dear students!