2015 IIME REPORTCountry [ France ]School[ Honoré de Balzac ] Teacher [ Fujiko MARTIN ] grade ( 6 )JP School [ NUKA Elementary School ] Teacher [ Takamasa IWAI ]student number ( 25 )# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
French culture

Hours

Understand the World Heritage, knowing about Japanese Festivals

4IT

Write in English about oneself following an oral model

5

Art

Draw a mural- following models and discussing stereotypes to have a better
connection

10# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Our beautiful countries, their cultures and their sports

Message

We did research about our French culture to find it most representative symbols forJapanese people.
We also made research about French part of the World Heritage.
We realize how France and Japan are feeding common tastes and that they arechallenged by the same stakes: pollution, recycling…..

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
The pupils realize how our word can be connected
and still very separated in very rich and different
countries. They spent lots of time doing research, andthey are very proud to explain about French culture.
We also learned about Japanese culture through its
festivals (explained by the Japanese pupils)

Points for further improvement
We were very happy to study with Japanese pupils
and we realized how English is an international
language for a nice international project.
We also decided to study about Japanese influence
on Art Impressionism.
Next year, I hope to make a video conference. (if I
have a white board).

# How has your impression toward your partner country and/or the world changed?
Change in student’s impression
Change in teacher’s impression
Pupils started to understand people from overseas, The painting of the mural was the time of a freethey also learned about Japanese culture: they discussion and a free process of conception.
decided to make a lot of origamis, kirigamis, they With the growing connections to Japanese culture,
decided to learn about Japanese shodo and students started to study origamis thanks to internet
Japanese food.
tutorials.

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

09

Research

10-11

Composition

01

Painting

01-02

Appreciation
Reflection

02

What you did
We wrote introduction cards.
We saw the Japanese youtube clip.
Wewerelookingforinformation about interestingparts of French culture.
The pupils trained on piecesof paper first.

They did their part nicely.
The Pupils explained theirwork to their friends.

Your students attitude/reflection
They were very interested. They loved
the Japanese clip.
They nicely read books about Frenchhistory and monuments.
All did a great job. Some among thestudents were even more able than adultto draw the Tour Eiffel. They insisted in
drawing a disabled kid in handisport.
They were focused and they went
efficiently and quickly.
The pupils achieved their mural withgreat interest.

SubjectEnglish

FrenchEnglishArtArtFrench# Aim of the Lessons and Result
Aim: Rank A to C in order you put emphasis on (A: very much/ B: much / C: not so much)
Result: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected Effect
Understanding our owncultures
Understanding theother’s cultures

AimResultA4

A5

A

5

C5

A4

A

5

Attitude in learningA

5Expression ability

B

5

Appreciation ability

B5Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

How your students have reached itPupills were supposed to present French world culture Heritage.
About 40% only did the job.
We learned trough the Japanese pupil’s work about Festivals, byinternet research about Kenroku Garden, etc…..
All the pupils did write cards to their partners.
The pupils were asking for video conference, but we do not havethe white boards.
The pupils were very fond of their Japanese pen friends.
They did a good teamwork thanks to the mural they learned how
to make compromise about their own ideas.
They were enthusiastic and proud about their job.
They were able to express clearly their ideas to the internteacher or even to myself.
They did a very nice job to introduce the mural to their families
and friends.