Choice of topics – work performed by the workshop participants
1. Topics proposed by the learners and reactions of the participating teachers
Yesterday? Where have we come from
• Free time in the past
• Language
• Eating habits
• How and why should we keep our traditions?
• Tell an incredible adventure
Today? Where are we now
• Eating habits +
• Use of different languages -
• One day in my life +
• How do I dress for school/when I go out +
• What stresses me +
• Multicultural society -
• Life at home?
• What do you think about your town/your region? -
• Sport?
• I love holidays?
• "May I go out tonight?" +
• What makes me happy?
Tomorrow? Where are we headed
• My concerns and hopes concerning the future +
• For our planet?
• Studying/working abroad -
• The man or woman of my life -
• Ask the genie to fulfil three wishes?
2. Suggestions from the working groups and decisions taken by the participants
A. Where are we now?
1. School
1.1 What does your school do to develop your creativity?
—› dismissed/rejected
1.2 Does learning differently prepare you better for adult
life? —› dismissed/rejected
1.3 A day at school (time-tables, matters, clothes, customs,
etc. – everything concerning school)
—› What would you need to know if you wanted to spend
a day in my school?
—› A1. Gulliver forum
1.4 What are the most pleasant moments during the school year?
—› dismissed/rejected
2. Everyday life (everything except school)
2.1 A day in your life —› dismissed/rejected
2.2 What are your eating habits? —›
dismissed/rejected
2.3 Is the choice of clothes important for you? —›
dismissed/rejected
2.4 "May I go out tonight?"
—› Besides your school work, what do you do during the
week? —› A2. Gulliver forum
2.5 What do you enjoy doing in the weekend? —›
dismissed/rejected
2.6 Could you live without your cellar phone? your computer?
without television? —› dismissed/rejected
3. Languages
3.1 Is it important for you that everybody should keep
their mother tongue?
—› dismissed/rejected
3.2 What regional/foreign languages are spoken in your
country?
—› dismissed/rejected
3.3 Do you think that learning English helps you discover
the other European countries’ culture? —› dismissed/rejected
—› How does learning foreign languages help you discover other
countries’ culture? —› A3. Gulliver forum
4. Human relationships
4.1 How do you make friends? How do you spend your spare
time with them? —› dismissed/rejected
4.2 What is the person you most admire? Why? A4. Gulliver forum
5. Civil life —› dismissed/rejected
5.1 What do you do as an individual to fight against pollution?
5.2 Do you volunteer in any activity
6. What makes you happy?
—› What makes you happy and what stresses you? —›
A5. Gulliver forum
7. What stresses you?
B. Where have we come from?
1. The meaning of the past
1.1 Is the past important for you? Why? —›
dismissed/rejected
1.2 Should we forget shameful past events? —›
dismissed/rejected
1.3 Could the modern man live in the past? —›
dismissed/rejected
2. Traditions - origins and reasons
2.1 How and why should we keep our traditions? —› B1. Gulliver
forum
2.2 To what traditional feasts/festivals would you like to invite me?
—› B2. Gulliver forum
2.3 What is the origin of your national feast? What do you do on that particular
day?
—› B3. Gulliver forum
3. Values
3.1 What values are respected in your country? —›
dismissed/rejected
3.2 What values are most important for you? —›
dismissed/rejected
3.3 What are the family values (in the past? nowadays?
in the future?)? —› dismissed/rejected
3.4 How did your grand parents live when they were young? Ask people
around you to know more. —› B4. Gulliver forum
3.5 Among the following values, which is the most important for you: friendship,
money, education, personal success, health? —› B5. Gulliver
forum
4. What behaviours did/do you object to in your society? What behaviours do you accept? —› dismissed/rejected
5. Is there anybody who left his/her country and became universally famous? —› dismissed/rejected
C. Where are we headed?
1. How do you imagine your life as an adult? —› C1.
Gulliver forum
1.1 Which kind of job do you dream of? —›
dismissed/rejected
1.2 What family would you like to have in the future? —›
dismissed/rejected
1.3 In what country would you like to study, work, live? And why?
—› C2. Gulliver forum
2. What are your concerns concerning the future: scientific breakthrough?
politics? environment? others...
—› Are you optimistic or pessimistic as regards the future?
(scientific breakthrough, politics, environment…)
—› C3. Gulliver forum
3. How do you imagine Europe in thirty years’ time? —› C4. Gulliver forum
4. Ask the genie to fulfil three wishes. —› C5. Gulliver forum
Definitive list of topics for the Gulliver forum:
A: TODAY
A1 What would you need to know if you wanted to spend a day in my school? (time-tables, matters, clothes, customs…)
A2 Besides your school work, what do you do during the week?
A3 How does learning foreign languages help you discover other countries’ culture?
A4 What is the person you most admire? Why?
A5 What makes you happy? What stresses you?
B: YESTERDAY
B1 Why and how should we keep our old traditions?
B2 To what traditional feast would you like to invite me? Why?
B3 What is the origin of your national feast? What are you doing during this day?
B4 How did your grand-parents live when they were young? Ask people around you.
B5 Among the following values, which is the most important to you? (friendship, money, education, personal success, health)
C: TOMORROW
C1 How do you imagine your life as an adult?
C2 In what country would you like to study, work, live and why?
C3 Are you optimistic or pessimistic as regards the future? (scientific breakthrough, politics, environment…)
C4 How do you imagine Europe in thirty years’ time?
C5 Ask the genie to fulfil three wishes.