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Progress reports 2002 - 2003

William Ellis School / Lycée de la Vallée de Chevreuse

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Ms Marguerite Freeman / Mme Verdier

Background

William Ellis is a comprehensive boys’ school in North London. 24 Year 10 pupils have been sending emails to seconde pupils at Lycée de la Vallée de Chevreuse in Versailles. This email exchange has concentrated on exchanging personal details.

Progress to date

William Ellis boys involved in the project have found it to be very motivating and to have put language learning in a real context for them (particularly as girls are involved…). Replies were received to emails sent in the Easter term, but, unfortunately, this term our pupils have had no response.

Future Plans

The teacher running the project for William Ellis has been unable to contact her colleague in France although she has tried several times, and so we have not been able to plan or implement any new plans. The French colleague is not the same person who attended the conference in Putney and this may be one of the reasons why the link has broken down.

Ideas and Recommendations

The linguistic ability of the Versailles pupils is much more advanced than that of our comprehensive intake. As there was reluctance to have pupils from very different age groups corresponding with each other, there are problems with advancing the project to a linguistically more advanced level.

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