'My Family Tree'

Image: Genealogy Family Tree, by przylga

'My Family Tree' is a project you can carry out in your classroom to work with the vocabulary about the family.

It's a very simple project with which we develop some key competences:

• Linguistic communication competence.
• Social and civic competences.
• Initiative sense and entrepreneurship.
• Cultural awareness and expression.

The students will work in groups of three and each one of them will have to assume his/her part of the work to complete the taks together with the rest of the group.

The teacher will show a model of family tree for them to know how to do it.

To carry out the project, the students must get photos of famous people, cartoon or comic characters, etc. They can use magazines or the Internet. If they use the Internet we will be also developing the digital competence. Using this material they will create a figured family tree, the funniest the better. As a support for sticking the photos they can use any material they prefer (cardboard, a large piece of cloth, wood...). It's very important to use imagination and draw pictures or stick various things to decorate it (flowers, buttons, leaves...). The members of each team will have to meet out of the school timetable (at home, in the library...) to do the project, and they will have to bring it to the classroom on a determined date and show it to the rest of the class, giving the opportune explanations and answering the questions of their classmates.