Help with school project in Germany

[finknottle]

Ds1's new secondary school has a project week in mid-Feb and I've volunteered to do something wrt English.

It's only 4 half-mornings, well, 3 really and then a presentation on the Open Day on the Sat.

Ds1 is so happy there and the teachers are v good. It's a small village school, quite new and while they've been renovating work-shops & labs etc, they've few resources for English.

As the children only really started learning English at the start of the school year they won't be up to much language-wise but need to be involved, i.e. we need to do something they can present.

I thought I'd do a British Isles display:

England
Wales
Scotland
Ireland

We can paint flags,
have posters/maps showing capitals etc
typical food, maybe write out short descriptions
sport (rugby, hurling, football, cricket)

So I need material. Have a couple of magazines I can cut a few pics out of.
Thought I'd contact the embassies in Berlin but the project starts on Feb 13th and don't have much time.

Help! Ideas, old mags you don't need - anything, please

German corner is good - some don't speak German but will still join in. I remember there was a thread in German a while back - this one is going to be in English isn't it.

I think we should have it as easy as poss - in English or German (or Germlish) as the mood takes us. Some people like practising a bit.
Also native speakers in other countries.
Also might be useful for people new in country & learning German to be able to ask, "How do I say X?"

When it gets too long, we just start a new one.

Only stipulation is no discussion of schools Anything beyond factual information re dates/makes of satchels etc strictly verboten.

'Only stipulation is no discussion of schools' OK then we won't be on it very often then we'll be somewhere else probably on primary - sandy is on there quite abit anyway!

No, for our sanity we need an outlet

I think we put people off because as Sandy wrote, every thread on food/translation or anything German ends up with us discussing the
daily aggravation of the school system.
Unfair to others & we (I anyway) feel guilty somehow.
We should be able to compare & complain and others shouldn't be put off

So off I go, 2 threads coming up.

here's the first one