Students of Vilnius Jonas Basanavičius pre-gymnasium participated in a project, called “My favourite hero”. They read books of famous writers, made summaries, analyzed the characters and the plots for three months.

Name of the task: Describing a character

Level: A2/B1

Age: 10+

Time: 2-3 months

Resources needed: Computer/laptop/smartphone

Aim: to improve reading and writing skills, stimulate students’ imagination and encourage them to love literature.

Description: students work individually or in pairs/groups to create a summary of a story they read. They also analyse their favourite characters’ personality in the chosen story and illustrate them.

Procedure: First, students read the stories of famous writers, then they write a short description of the story and describe a chosen character. They can also draw the pictures to illustrate the main characters of the story.

Notes: This task is very useful to encourage students to read. It also helps to improve grammar skills particularly the use of adjectives describing personality.

Foreign languages (English/French/Russian) – collaboration result

ESL teacher – student collaboration result:

There are lots of places that aren‘t accessible to people with disabilities. But I want to tell You about places that are accessible and comfortable to people that are using wheelchairs. One such place is Monciškės.

Monciškės is a settlement located between Palanga and Šventoji. In Monciškės people with disability can enjoy their holiday when they are near Baltic Sea.

What is so special about Monciškės? All houses, cafes, facilities and beach are accessible and adapted to the needs of wheelchair users.

Monciškės beach is always full and this is not surprising because this beach is comfortable to everyone including people with bikes, families with small children and elderly people.