Our visit to jung:de

As planned, I visited Goethe Institut's exhibition, "jung.de"with the kids.
In the beginning of the opening ceremony we were greeted by a representative of the institute, both in German and Greek.
After that a big surprize was waiting for us. A group of capoeira dancers (Jacobina-Arte) started playing music with traditional instuments and dancing, while we were clapping following their rhythm.
Suddenly a dancer comes down off stage and asks if anybody wants to join the group! To our surpize, one of my students, Makis, comes up on the stage and show us a few moves while we are cheering and clapping!!
We continue to the exhibition room where the kids look around with interest. Of course they found more interesting the buffet with the delicious snacks and drinks that had been prepared for us!!!
It was an unforgettable evening!!!

Seminar in Goethe Institut

As I have mentioned before, I've been teaching two languages in Greece. Because of this I can compare what is offered to the teachers and students who learn a language.

And I have to say that the German Instutut in my hometown does a lot to motivate people to learn about the language and civilazation of German speaking countries.

This time ti is an exhibition called jung:de and it is all about young people in Germany. Through pictures, music and art we can discover many things about life over there.

To make it more interesting, they also organized a seminar for teachers, where we were provided with tons of materials (both in paper ans on-line) that we can use both in the exhibition and in class




I'm looking forward to visiting the exhibion with my students and we are also planning a project on that.
It's really a pity that these things don't happen in the world of EFL, at least not over here

First Entry

This is my first post on this blog. I used to keep another blog on yahoo, but I decided that I somehow need need a fresh start.
I guess I'd better tell something about myself first.
As my profile says, I am Theodora, I am in Greece and I teach English and German both at a language school and privately
I am married and I have a 5-year-old son, he's in pre-school.
Well, over here I am going to post things about my life, my work, my country, as well as anything I find interesting!