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[Laurence]

Greetings,

I�m an elementary grade 5 homeroom teacher in a Korean K12 school in China.

I want to run a task based �keypals� exchange, I�m looking for (a) partner school(s) to work with. The project would work by exchanging typed/scanned work by email. I have run a similar project from a primary school in Indonesia in conjunction with a school in New Zealand, which was generally successful and really interesting/stimulating for teachers and students.

The aims are:

* for the students to learn about each other/get to know each other by completing structured tasks.
* to highlight/demonstrate/discover aspects of different/students� own cultures.
* to engender �communicative� (less �academic�) second/foreign language use.

I�ve got some nice ideas for structured tasks to get started and of course I am open to new ones. The first one I would like to do questions our ability to judge character by appearance. It would involve setting a simple writing task for the students, collecting all their work and emailing the work to me, and vice versa.

So I'm looking for someone, preferably an elementary grade 5 teacher working in a different part of the world, to coordinate the exchange. If you�re interested and would like to hear more, I would really like to hear from you:

laurence299(at)yahoo(dot)com

or PM me on this site and I can email you.

Warm regards,

Laurence.