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www.eatingabroadtogether.eu

EatingAbroadTogether

EAT  is a new and exciting European project that started in November 2007 and lasts for 2 years.The project involves 20 primary schools in 5 European countries - Romania, Bulgaria, Holland, Italy and the UK. Each school has linked up with a foreign school from one of the partner countries.
Together, they exchange healthy eating tips, recipes, cultural similarities and differences, local customs and old wives tales.

The children also research their local recipes and traditions, draw pictures to accompany words, phrases and record these words to help each other with pronunciation.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The project involves 20 primary schools in 5 European countries - Romania, Bulgaria, Holland, Italy and the UK. Each school has linked up with a foreign school from one of the partner countries.
Together, they exchange healthy eating tips, recipes, cultural similarities and differences, local customs and old wives tales.
The children also research their local recipes and traditions, draw pictures to accompany words, phrases and record these words to help each other with pronunciation.

All the data is collected and translated into all the partner languages and entered into a multilingual databank. The multilingual databank is a website with several sections. There is a series of blogs (between each pair of schools) where children (and teachers) can post text messages and photos for their partner schools.  There is also the category with words, which comprises mainly vocabulary related to food. Each word is translated in the 5 languages of the country and the pronunciation of the respective word has been recorded by the children also in the 5 languages. The website also contains a „frequent phrases” sections and children can find out what are basic „ survival” phrases in the other 4 languages. As the project develops, the website will also be made of a recipe maker (focused on how to cook healthy, simple recipes by starting from a basic set of ingredients), a section called „resources” about cultural traditions, local superstitions and sayings about eating and healthy eating in each country.
Besides developing the children’s skills in English, which is the main communication language, the EAT  project also promotes multilingualism because all of the children interact with the languages of their peers through the website. The multilingual data base contains, besides words related to food, every day phrases in the languages of the project, most of them suggested by the children when asked what they would like to ask the pupils from the partner school.

As initiators of the project, we tend to believe that raising awareness on the importance  of multilingualism has been greatly facilitated by providing a highly interactive manner through the platform and the blogs: on the one hand every child got the chance to interact with  ”real” Bulgarians, Romanians, Italians or Britons, and, on the other hand, the languages have been approached in a creative manner: each of the words uploaded on the website has a picture associated to it, drawn by the pupils.