European day
of languages
Comenius project: Three is the magic number –
reduce, reuse, recycle
Osnovna škola Glina, Glina, Croatia
October, 2013.
At the initiative of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, the European Day of
Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on September, 26th.
This year for the second time our school celebrated European day of languages as
part of Comenius project: Three is the magic number - reduce, reuse, recycle.
Activity 1 – Brother Peter
 During this activity students learned
the rhyme Brother Peter in different
partner languages.
 Every class learned the rhyme in
Croatian and one more language.
 At the end of the activity we made a big
Comenius choir and the students sang
the rhyme in all the languages.
Activity 1 – Brother
Activity 1 – Brother Peter
Activity 2 – Word games
 In the second activity all the students
participated in learning 5 words from
different partner languages.
 They learned how to say SCHOOL, TEACHER,
STUDENT, NOTEBOOK and PENCIL in all the
languages.
 Later they played different games related to
the words they learned, partner countries
names and flags.
Activity 2 – Word games
Activity 3 – Recepie taste
 As a part of one of the earlier activities we
got from our partners recepie books.
 Teacher with a little help from their students
prepared some of the recepies from the
partner books.
 At the end of the European day of languages
project day we tried them out and had some
fun.
Activity 3 – Recepie taste
Comenius school team worked hard
on this project day and it was great!