For EDL 2009 Europe Direct Komotini has already designed a series of actions entitled “Poliglossoupoli” (translation in EN would be: “Multilingual city”) where students, young pupils and school teachers will have the opportunity, through interactive and imaginative activities to discover the linguistic richness of the EU and to identify common features between the different languages, belonging to the same linguistic family.
Some of the activities which are included in “Poliglossoupoli” and could be realised in your country are:
- a PowerPoint presentation about the importance of EDL, the Multilingualism, Director General of Interpretation and DG of Translation of European Commission - exhibition with covers of comic-books from all member-states of EU entitled “EU ComiCrossing”
- role-playing games
- ground game in which the students separated into two teams will have to put some comic-book covers in the respective country or group of countries/ depending on which linguistic family they belong
- activity sheets (crosswords, acrostic, coloring-pages etc.)
At the end of these activities will be distributed to the participants publications, leaflets, post-cards and posters of the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities about Multilingualism, and languages in Europe.
Furthermore, a great challenge for promoting EDL in our region is the MEDIA. Throughout the week radio-spots about the importance of EDL will be broadcasted by radio stations and articles about the EDL and Multilingualism are going to be published in local newspapers.

Etwinning Project: Open up your ideas to the world.
Process:
1. School groups students will choose their "special" words in their mother tongue, then they will find translations in different foreign languages (by themselves or with help from partners). 1a. If wanted as additional activity, the reasons for word choice can be posed in the classrooms and added to the slide or added to a poster that will be displayed at school and in the twinspace.
2. Addtional. The following sentence will be translated into different languages and will be displayed in slides and creatively designed slides: Hello,welcome. Please, open your ideas to the world!.
3. Collection of fotos during activites.
4. Exhibiton of all results at schools, if possbile. 4. Use the Materials and Language Fun section of the EDL page.
Expected results:
They will prepare a slide with "special" word and their translations. Slides can be creatively designed. Slides with translations from process 2. ICT contact in the twin space. Displays of photos at schools and twin space. schools.

Une langue ça se parle, ça s'entend - Une langue ça s'écrit, ça se voit.
*Faire un travail en arts visuels sur les alphabets de différentes langues.
*D'abord observer signes identiques/signes différents.(lettres et/ou signes)
*Choisir chacun ou par groupe des signes/lettres non connus dans l'alphabet de notre langue et en faire un panneau afin de les "donner" à voir aux autres élèves de l'école.
*Les présenter de façon répétitive (Pop'Art) de manière à mieux les mettre en valeur.

At Terakki Schools we celebrate The European Language Day every year. This year's activitities for 1st Grade will include singing songs in different languages and learning to say "Hello" in other languages. Our 2nd Grades will learn challenging Tongue Twisters in English and other languages. They will also prepare cards using multilingual sayings. The 3rd Grades will have an International Day. On that day they will learn about other countries, cultures and languages. They are going to listen to the sample music from these countries as well.

Pour 2009, je suggère de faire un jeu de rôle durant ces initiations afin que chaque personne retienne des éléments clés : se présenter,dire bonjour, s'excuser, demander son chemin, décliner sa profession

*à partir des expressions contenant le mot "langue" en français faire un poème utilisant le plus de ces expressions.Production d'écrit en assemblant et harmonisant les expressions trouvées et/ou apportées par l'enseignant.

(langue de bois, donner sa langue au chat, langue maternelle)

* à partir des expressions contenant le mot"langue" en français réfléchir au sens littéral de l'expression et la détourner afin d'en imaginer une autre et ainsi commencer une prose.
ex: donner sa langue au chat? et pourquoi? pourquoi ne pas la donner à son chien? hein? Pourquoi?............
(création poétique en production d'écrit)