School of the future is the title of the project that Zespol Szkol Publicznych (Jozefoslaw, Poland) is taking part with 4 other countries (Germany, Holland, Bulgaria and Romania). The presentation shows results of the research our students conducted with their teachers. We presented it on 16 th April 2013 during the visit of our guests. Our project will be continued until summer 2014

1. Meeting in Poland
15.04-19.04.2013

2. Andrzej Mazur
Wiktor Kuklewski

3. Facebook vs. Twitter vs. E-mail
We asked 50 people about their preferences
concerning communicators they like most.
Here are the results:

4. 87%
3%
10%
communicators
facebook e-mail twitter

5. As we can see the greatest number of respondents
prefer facebook. Twitter is on the second position. When
we asked about it people said twitter is less popular. E-
mail is the least popular. Almost all said it’s slow and
uncomfortable.

6. • More formal
• larger attachments
• Quickly sent
information
• Easy to use
• A lot of friends
• Clear interface
• Add posts and links
Benefits
Facebook & twitter E-mail

7. Marta
Golińska

8. There are billion users on fb. We
place there a lot of photos,
information about us, films.
Everyone can see it on our profiles.
Everyone can see where you are
from, who you are meeting and what
you are interested in.

9. We shouldn’t add people who
we don’t know, because they
can be dangerous for us. We
can’t be sure who they really
are. Sometimes these people
want to collect information
about us. For example, they
want to know who your
parents are and where they
work. These ,,virtual friends’’
can bully or rob us!

10. For many young people fb
became an integral part of
their lives. They want to be
popular. Everyone wants to
have more ,,like it’’ under
photos or posts. As a result,
communication with our
real friends becomes less
important.
Facebook can be an
addition.

11. To sum up there are many advantages
and disadvantages connected with using
facebook. Certainly fb can be useful and
facilitate our life but we should be careful
and avoid spending all our free time on
it.

12. Olga Jabłonowska
Julia Nowoszewska

13. Ways of using websites
to learn English
FACEBOOK:
By this social website you can communicate with
people from different countries, which can teach you
lots of new expressions and words.
TWITTER:
On Twitter you can follow our favourite celebrities
or just our friends and that also can teach you lots of
new words.
YOUTUBE:
 Watching interesting people is so exciting! It’s even
better when you watch them in English and
understand more and more… You won’t even notice and
you’ll be able to understand every word.

14. TUMBLR AND BLOGSPOT:
Reading entries of your favourite bloggers
helps you to learn English.
INTERNET GAMES:
In some of them you can play with people
from other countries and also most of these
games are in English.
SKYPE:
Skype is one of the best ways to talk with
somebody, especially in English! You don’t have
much time to check words or expressions so
you have to try use your own vocabulary.
SITES WITH LYRICS TRANSLATIONS:
You can finally find out what is your favourite
artist singing about! And you can learn new
words!

15. Questionnaire

16. Patrycja Śliwińska
Ola Wielgolewska

17. 18 people talking
about us
116 people like
our page

19. What did we achieve?
We believe that this site is a very good way to
communicate fast nowadays. We can put there
pictures, posts, videos, and music. We comunicate in
English, thanks to this we can learn a foreign
language and find new friends. This is a fantastic tool
to make our project more popular and stay in touch
with our partners when they come back home!

20. Teachers and technology
Dominik Ciborski
Wojtek Hoheker

21.  How often do you use multimedia on your lessons?
 What do you use multimedia for?
 Would you take part in any extra trainings or courses
to improve your multimedia skills?
 Is multimedia equipment in our school sufficient?
 Do you think that lessons with multimedia are more
interesting for the students?
 Do the student understand more with multimedia
used on classes?
 How do you prefer to perform your lessons – with or
without multimedia?
Questions asked in the
questionnaire

22. Great majority of teachers use multimedia once a week.
Often we heard that multimedia are used for presentations or
educational films.
The knowledge of multimedia was not sufficient for many
teachers.
Multimedia equipment in our school is not sufficient
Lessons with multimedia are more interesting for the
students.
Students understand more with multimedia used on classes.
Quite many teachers prefer conducting their lessons – with
multimedia

23. Aleksander Hebda
Natalia Konatowicz
Julia Biernat

24. You can use films and
music to learn English in
many different ways:
Through watching English or American films with
subtitles you can learn the right pronunciation of
new words.
We can also learn real, everyday language and use it
in class.

25. Music is also very useful: you
can print out the lyrics of
your favourite songs,
translate them and learn a
few new words.
Listening to songs will
improve your pronunciation.
Singing songs along will help
you remember the new
words.

26. Comenius Project
Prepared by:
Zuzanna Kijek
Agnieszka Kliś
Aleksandra Patkowska
Natalia Pogorzelska
Aleksandra Sej
No. of respondents: 24 girls and 22 boys

27. • Most of the students
learn English (7-9 years)
and German (4-6 years)
• The least of respondents
learn Spanish, Latin,
Hungarian and Mandarin

28. How do you define your knowledge of foreign languages?
• EnglishEnglish
• very good and good
• GermanGerman
• middle
• RussianRussian
• weak and very good
• FrenchFrench
• weak and middle
• ItalianItalian
• weak
• SpanishSpanish
• weak
• HungarianHungarian
• very good
• MandarinMandarin
• very good

29. Most of the students learn foreign
languages also out of school and try to
widen their vocabulary for example by
reading books and magazines as well
as watching movies. A lot of students
(57 %) said that they always, often or
usually translate songs in English.
When it comes to additional materials
they use the most frequent answer was
the Internet (35 respondents) and
dictionaries (27 respondents).

30. About 39% of students learn foreign languages only at school while 61%
of respondents learn foreign languages additionally. They have private
lessons at home or in language schools. It’s worth mentioning that there
is a higher rate of students who take extra lessons at home than at
language schools.

31. How do you estimate the content of your English
coursebook?
• Most of the students
believe that the level of
coursebooks is sufficient.
• Only 9 students said that
the level is too low.
• We also wanted to know if
students use dictionaries
in our coursebooks and it
turned out that only 9
percent of respondents
said that they never use a
dictionary in their
coursebooks. One thirds
of students answered that
they only sometimes use
the dictionary.

32.  Teachers usually start
lessons by checking a
attendance list.
 The number of students who
claimed that teachers begin
a lesson with checking
homework or revision of
previously introduced
material was the same (17
percent).
How does your teacher begin the English lesson?

33. Does your teacher give you handouts? How often?
Almost one thirds of asked students anwered that they are not given handouts. About
63 percent of students claimed that they receive handouts quite often.

34. Does your teacher bring multimedia presentations
related to lesson subject?
Our teachers mostly don’t bring or bring presentations 1-3 times per term, which is a
shame because presentations seem to be quite interesting in our opinion.

35. Do you learn by fun on lessons (quizzes, movies)?
How often?
Although there is a great amount of respondents who maintain that teachers use games,
quizzes or movies during a lesson, there are many individuals who are of a different opinion
(33 %).

36. Do you use English when
you’re abroad?
Do you think that foreign
trips improve your English
skills?
Most of the students use English abroad and believe it improves their
English proficiency.

37. No. of respondents: 24 girls and 24 boys
Paweł Duda
Jan Morek
Tomasz Nowacki
Mateusz Runiewicz
Karol Sokołowki
Jan Urbański
Presentation was created by Mateusz Runiewicz

38. 1.How often do you have exams?
Most of the students
said that teachers have
got a habit of
examining students
after each unit of a
coursebook. About 89
percent of teachers
prefer running a test
after every unit.

39. 2.What kind of testing
do you prefer?
Students seem to be afraid of
being tested orally. Only four
students answered that they
would prefer oral way of testing
of their knowledge. A great
majority of students have a
preference of written way of
testing.
In fact, teachers apt to test
students in writing. This may
be caused by the fact that ‘test
gimnazjalny’ (test that students
write at the end of middle
school) does not check our
speaking skills but our writing
skills, grammar, spelling, etc.

40. 3.Are short tests
announced in advance?
Apart from tests that last about
45 minutes we’ve got short tests.
The second are 15 – 20 minutes
long.
Students claim that
approximately 78 percent of
teachers tend to announce short
tests in advance so that students
can prepare themselves for a
test.
There is only small percentage of
teachers who ask students to
write unannounced tests from
time to time.

41. 4.How often do you
have homework to do?
In Poland it is common to give
students homework. Almost all
respondents answered that they
are always or often asked to do
homework. Only one person
answered that teachers hardly
ever give homework.

42. 5.Where do you do
your homework?
We also wanted to know where
students do their homework. Due
to the data that we gathered,
two-thirds of questioned people
say that they do homework at
home.
Most of respondents say that
they prefer doing homework at
home because it is easier to
concentrate there whereas at
school it is difficult to find a
place where you can focus your
attention.
What is more, we’ve got limited
access to the Internet at school
and as we all know, the Internet

43. 6.How many exercises have
you got as a homework?
The statistics of our survey
show that students seem to
have a lot of homework to do on
average.
Nobody said that their
homework limits to only one
exercise. Most of the students,
that is to say 50%, claimed that
their homework amounts from
two to five exercises while
approximately 19% of
individuals said that they are
given even more than five
exercises to do.

44. 7.Is the instruction of your
homework explained?
Although there are more
responders who admit that
teachers explain homework, a
great amount of students
maintain that teachers don’t
give explanation of how to do
homework, which is a shame.
It is important for a teacher to
explain the instruction of a task
to avoid students’ confusion
and misinterpretation. On the
other hand, students shouldn’t
be afraid to ask for specific
information how to do the task.

45. 8.How often do teachers
use teaching aids?
Nowadays teachers have got a great variety of
teaching aids: posters, charts, maps, drawings,
flashcards, dictionaries, overhead projectors, CD
players, DVD players, computers and so on.
However, there is still a great number of teachers
who seldom use such a kind of improvement of a
teaching and learning process, which is a shame.

46. Data compiled by our
research group show that
there are a lot of teachers
who hardly ever or even
never use teaching aids
(about 29% of teachers
altogether).
About 35% of respondents
said that teachers tend to use
teaching aids from time to
time and 31% of students
claim that teachers
frequently use teaching aids.

47. 9.Do you watch films in
English during the lesson?
Using movies in class can be
engaging and helpful for
students.
However, teachers who show
movies that are not connected
to learning have given movies a
bad name. Consequently, such a
kind of films may be regarded as
a waste of time not only by
students but also by their
parents.
It is important for a teacher to
introduce a film that educates
students and broadens the
mind.

48. Thank you for your
attention!