"A world of Famous Difference"

Planning Activities 


1. Dance in January 
(this is acually Maja's idea) it would be fun to perform some international well known song in our languages (by sequences) and to make merged song-video-performance of it in greek, polish, turkish and croatian..maybe we could do something like that in dance activity?

I did some research bearing in mind Greek songs that can be danced to and have gone international. You could check relevant song videos and info here 
a. Never on Sunday", also known as "Ta Pediá tou Pireá" (Greek: "Τα Παιδιά του Πειραιά"; English: "The Children of Piraeus"), is a popular song by Manos Hadjidakis.A vocal version was also released and performed by Melina Mercouri in the film of same name directed by Jules Dassin and starring Mercouri.The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1960, a first for a foreign-language picture.

It is said to be available in Croatian and Polish. Dancing to it could be taught by the Greek children in a video. (simple version of the dance) 
video clip from the movie, lyrics translated in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6zPpUwbj9g 
song with lyrics in English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzPlKTwVqJE&index=38&list=RDmA-4b_hEfKo 
(more info about song=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_on_Sunday_(song)) 

b. "Zorbas" (dance: syrtaki, it's easy to teach)  No lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls3gevqqqD0&feature=youtu.be (instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzlcxN0lxSo&index=30&list=RDmA-4b_hEfKo (dancing)

c. (other suggestion)Maja's suggestionpolish ish and crotain traditional dance is polka, also easy to learn, we can learn you and we learn syrtaki and something from Turkey?mething from Turkey?

d. (JUSTYNA's suggestion: I was thinking about this activity and I have a suggestion. Now we have 4  counties in a project and each country  can perform a traditional dance - a very  short one and then we can teach partners some basic steps - it can be a very  short part of a dance so that it won't be too difficult.
In Poland we have  krakowiak - our students can show You some simple steps to learn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FOCWt8mPcM
instrumental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjeK-bjlvXo  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTgYH__W2x8
And the same  activity do other countries.
A final product would be one blended movie with  Greek, Croatian, Turkish and Polish traditional dances - each dance would be  performed by all partners.
To be honest I think it can be challenging but we  would like to learn a few steps of Croatian, Greek and Turkish dances. 

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2. Poems in Feb
In Greek books there are texts byforeign writers translated into Greek. I suppose the same goes for your school books.
In addition, having done a bit of research I found Nobel Prize laureates in Literature who wrote in Polish, Turkish, Croatian or Greek.
Pupils could focus on one poet and/or one poem in their native language and recite it for partners to draw its images or dramatize it or ..........
3. Cooking  traditional meals? Exchancing recepies ,by making youtube video of it for partners to cook and Making an online cookery book with all recepies, photos and students impressions...or making uniqe recipe like polish baklava?Cro, Greece and Turkey eat it and we could add some polish ingridients??☺

About january activity 1-

  I was thinking about this suggestion, every partner use  own treditional dance with a small part another's country dans like our first Christmas song activity.
  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvIjDAvFC54&feature=share

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew_UAgYNo6c&feature=share
 
 2- About february activity:
 We can choose our traditional poet who famous at the world. Our pupil recite them, they can read different poem their native language, may they can read small part of poem in English and they can draw pictures about poem.
 3- Our children recite our traditional hero who is famous at the world like Mevlana 
 
Serpil form Turkey

Hi all.
All suggestions sound good.Maybe for March  or next  students can exchange their traditional children's games by making videos and explaining how to play and then another video or photos showing them playing the partners' games and talking about their impressions.To decide on which game to teach,  first students upload the photos of different  games-two ,three or four on their pages .Then partner students show their interest to one of the games of each country and the one that draws the most attention  will be the game to be taught  for that country.
Atike