A new experience

Last Wednesday she opened the door...
We're speaking about Isabel Cullen! How nice she is! A 16 year old girl who came here in Italy to study Italian, with a cultural exchange program! She comes from Perth in western Australia. We are really happy to host this friendly girl in our class for two months. She's staying with a family that takes part in this international project. But, just think about that: she has flown for 18 hours! What a stressful and long journey! What else can we say? We really like her, she's very pretty and now she is part of our class. We speak in English with her, of course, but she attends all our lessons and naturally she helps us not only for English but also for German, that she can speak well. We would like to make a similar experience in our future.
Lucia, Gabriella, Francesca, Serena.

Something about our school

Our school is located near "Fontana Luminosa" and the castle, just in the centre of l'Aquila.
It is called ITASS "Elena di Savoia".
We are 350 students (but only 20 boys!!!). So the boys are very lucky, but the girls not very much.
Those who love scientific subjects attend the biological branch, where there is a lot of maths, chemistry, biology, science etc...
Those who are fond of foreign languages attend the linguistic branch, where they study mostly: Spanish, French, English and German. Another branch is "social activities" that is a more pratical course where you can study psicology, aliments, healthy and junk food, diets, illnesses and how to give disable people the means to work, live and comunicate in social life.
All the students in our school attend the lessons from Monday to Saturday from 8:20 to 13:30.
There are no lessons in the afternoon, but some projects: etwinning is one of them, as well as sport activities, theatre etc...
We assure you that our male teachers are very handosome but they are few, the female teachers are nice and young in spirit. This is why we make a lot of projects.
ITASS Etwinning group.

NEWS ABOUT ITALIAN SCHOOL

NEWS ABOUT ITALIAN SCHOOL

This week in our school there is the so call “pausa didattica” decided by the students.
Do you know what it is ???
This isn’t an occupation of the school as the students are in the classroom with their teachers but
the teachers can neither explain nor make oral and written tests.
We don’t have the usual lessons but we ask teachers to do special activities, for example :
We play volley and football matches;
We watch films about history of Italy, about psychological topics and documentary of bio-chem and so on.
We read the newspapers
We speak about political topics (the law 133 and 137 concerning the new school reform)
We make orienteering for universities
We write the school journal
Some of us try to improve some subjects with the help of our teachers
We visit interesting places of art in our town with our teachers.
This “pausa didattica” from one side can help some students understanding better some subjects, on the other side, some students can deepen some subjects.
In the end we can tell that it is a different way to have lesson.
And you??? Do you have similar experience in your school….???
Waiting for your comments……………. Bye Bye


By Alessandra and Jessica

Mattia,Giulia,Debora ( the leaders of the group)


















We are trying to organize our work !!!!! we are sure we will make a lot of mistakes...but it's important to comunicate something!!!! we will work hard to make our best.... ;-)

This is our first meeting for ETWINNING project !!!!!