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23–27 October, 2013 Comenius Project Meeting

Galati - ROMANIA

As a 4th theme to our project we worked on traditional ‘FOOD’ from all around Turkey.

We also travelled around the cuisine of all the partner countries of our project.

FOOD

We started with a questionnaire to get a general idea about our students’ taste.

QUESTIONNAIRE

QUESTIONNAIRE: YOUR FAVOURITES

1. What’s your favourite dish? ________________________________________.

2. What’s your favourite drink? ________________________________________.

3. What’s your favourite dessert? ________________________________________.

4. Do you have breakfast every day? ________________________________________ .

5. Which is your favourite: breakfast, lunch or dinner? Why?

_________________________________________. _________________________________________.

6. Do you prefer chocolate or sweets? ________________________________________.

7. Do you drink milk regularly?

_________________________________________.

8. Who is the best cook in your family? _________________________________________.

First of all, we worked on a Turkish folk character: Nasrettin Hodja.

Nasrettin Hodja is considered a Turkish populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes. He is a well known character both by young and old people in Turkey.

NASRETTIN HODJA

As a wise man, Nasrettin Hodja always helped people to find the right path and stay away from evil. In doing this, he mainly used jokes. In many of these jokes he used ‘food’ items as symbols.

Our students searched for Nasrettin Hodja jokes related to ‘food’. And they shared these stories with their friends both in Turkish and English.

Tarifi Bende

Nasreddin hoca bir gün yolda yürürken canı pirzola çekmiş,

Kasaba gidip pirzola almış ama nasıl yapılacağını

bilmiyormuş.

-Eee ben bunu nasıl pişirecem daha yapmasını bilmiyom

demiş.

Adam tarifi yazıp vermiş hocaya. Hoca yolda giderken bir karga

pirzolayı elinden kapıp havaya yükselmiş.

Nasreddin hoca arkasında bağırmış:

-Karga bak bak tarifi bende. Demiş

NASRETTIN HODJA

NASRETTIN HODJA

They tried to depict the jokes by making flashcards.

They also tried to rewrite some of his funny stories in their own words along with a picture.

In cooperation with Science Department, we organised ‘Animals are Friends!’ Festival.

‘ANIMALS ARE FRIENDS’FESTIVAL

Our students brought their pets and displayed them in the sports hall. Each class visited the stands and had fun.

‘ANIMALS ARE FRIENDS’FESTIVAL

While doing all these, we get the major support from our principal as he is a real animal lover. Here are the animals that live in our school.

Along with the ‘Animals are Friends!’ Festival, we organised a charity bazaar in our school.

CHARITY BAZAAR

Our students brought home-made food belonging to different regions of Turkey. They decorated stands, sold the food items and donated the income to Animal Shelters and Tohum Otism Fund.

After this social responsibility project, we moved on with another questionnaire to raise our students’ awareness towards charity issues.

QUESTIONNAIRE

QUESTIONNAIRE: HELPING OTHERS

1. What’s your favourite animal? ________________________________________.

2. Do you have a pet? ________________________________________.

3. Have you ever visited an animal shelter? ________________________________________.

4. Have you ever been to a zoo? ________________________________________.

5. How can we help people who are in need?

________________________________________ ________________________________________.

6. How can we help animals which are in need? ________________________________________ ________________________________________.

7. What do you know about charity institutions?

_________________________________________. _________________________________________.

8 . What do you think about making a donation? ________________________________________.

In cooperation with Music Department, our students sang a song called ‘Sonbaharda Meyveler’ (Fruits in Autumn) in their mother tongue.

‘FRUITS IN AUTUMN’ SONG

‘FRUITS IN AUTUMN’ SONG

We announced 8th October as ‘Cookie Day’ in our school. We went to the dining hall with our students. They shaped their own cookies. And had great fun!

COOKIE DAY

And 10th October was ‘Lunch for Friends Day’.

First, some of our 6th and 7th grade studentsdesigned menus for that special day.

‘LUNCH FOR FRIENDS’ DAY

Then, they participated in the preparation of lunch for the day.They tried to cook some traditional Turkish dishes like: Izmir meatball, Mantı and Ezogelin soup.

‘LUNCH FOR FRIENDS’ DAY

As the last step, the students were given an assignment to prepare a cookbook. They worked in groups, searched and came up with various recipes including dishes from Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, England, Italy, Poland and Turkey. And they prepared their own cookbooks.

COOKBOOK

Would you like to tasteone of these?