WORLD HERITAGE IN HUNGARY

A COMENIUS PROJECT FOR SZENT BENEDEK BILINGUAL PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL

Designed by BALÁZS DICSŐ-

ERDŐDI dicsobal@yahoo.com

while reading listen to Márta Sebestyén

CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE MISSION

POSSIBLE 2. THE MISSION 3. THE PROCESS 3. SOURCES AND SUGGESTIONS 3. SOURCES AND SUGGESTIONS 4. EVALUATION 4. EVALUATION 5. CONCLUSION 6. CREDITS AND

REFERENCES

1. INTRODUCTIONDear Szent Benedek Elementary Students!Imagine yourselves as a foreigner, who wants to learn about your city, Budapest and about your country, Hungary. Try to show them the natural and built beauties of Hungary. Your task is to show why Hungary is a special place in the world.You only need groups of three and creativity. The best groups can present their work in Tallin in May, 2010. We need English presentations: posters, paintings, music, videos, present and past of Budapest or a world heritage site which you visited recently.I wish you good luck and be creative to show Hungarian culture and landscape to the curious visitors.

2. THE MISSION POSSIBLE

The choice is all yours how to present Hungarian World Heritage of Budapest, Pécs, Hortobágy or Lake Fertő (in German Neusiedlersee).

In Budapest your choices include the Castle District, the Danube Embankment and the Andrássy Avenue.

In Pécs, the European Capital of Culture in 2010 the early Christian Necropolis.

In the Hortobágy National Park you can present the westernmost Eurasian steppe region.

At lake Fertő present Europe’s largest salt lake and its environment.

2. THE MISSION

You should work in groups of three and your presentation should last for 15 minutes.

You can present your ideas in many ways. Sensual: Give it all to the senses (food, costume, parfume), that

characterises a World Heritage site, let it be the Hortobágy or the Fertő Hanság. Make a movie about the process of making it!

Talk-based: write a short story or a poem, a piece of literature or music that symbolises your choice the best and act it out.

Visual: make a powerpoint, poster, painting or collage using any material you think is necessary.

Movie-centred: You can make a cartoon, a documentary or a movie about your favourite World heritage site

Artistic: make a theatre about a World Heritage site’s in costume or modern outfit.

Ecological: show why nature, animals and plants are important part of Hungary

Like a teacher or scientist: make a research and publish an article with pictures about a person, a building, street, nature, animals or plants that are special in Hungary.

You can use any tools and instruments to make a new and original show of the Hungarian World Heritage sites.

3. THE PROCESS1. Make groups of three.2. Decide about the area: teacher or scientist, artistic, writing-

based, visual, speech-based, movie-oriented or biology centred.

3. Talk with your group mates and write down the many ideas.4. Choose from the ideas. Check the sources you have, your

knowledge and how much time it takes. 5. Divide the tasks among yourselves (one does reading, other

does the drawings and the third makes the music, or one knows biology, the other learns geography, the third helps to put it together in a presentation).

6. Use the internet and the library to look for information. 7. Talk about your progress weekly with your English and

history teacher.8. The final date of the written (video) presentations is 16

March, 2010. 9. Present your creative work in class. The teacher and the class

will decide about the best presentations. 10. If you win, your group is going to travel to Tallin, Estonia, to

present your work and enjoy being there.

3. SOURCES AND SUGGESTIONSWorld Heritage of Hungary – Architectural heritageHungarian world heritage sitesBudapestMuseumsWorld Heritage sitesA selection of doorwaysHouse of Mai Manó on Andrássy AvenueBranczik Márta – Demeter Zsuzsanna: Budapesti Építkezések Állomásai (Stations of Constructions in Budapest), Fekete Sas Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2007Jalsovszky Katalin-Tomsics Emőke: Budapest az ikerfőváros 1860-1890 (Budapest the Twin Capital), Helikon Kiadó, Budapest, 2003Lukacs John: Budapest 1900, Bilingual edition, Európa Kiadó, Budapest, 2004Ráday Mihály ed.: Budapest teljes utcanévlexikona (The Complete Street Lexicon of Budapest), Sprinter Kiadó, Budapest, 2003

PécsWorld Heritage sitesBBC about PécsPaleochristian cemetaryPécs culture in advertisementPécs photo galleryBoros László – Kalmár Lajos: A pécsi bazilika és a város ókeresztény emlékei (The Basilica of Pécs and the Early Christian Sites of the City), Alexandra Kiadó, Pécs, without yearSoós Péter: Barangolások hazai tájakon II. (Travels on Home Soil), p. 251-258, Buk Kft., Budapest, 1994

3. SOURCES AND SUGGESTIONS

World Heritage of Hungary – Natural heritageHortobágyHortobágy and the puszta magicThe pusztaHortobágy National ParkHortobágy photo galleryHortobágy Máta Stud Park and Gene PreservationHortobágy Bird Hospital 3D TourEcsedi Zoltán ed.: A Hortobágy madárvilága (The Birds of Hortobágy), Hortobágy Természetvédelmi Egyesület, Balmazúváros-Szeged, 2004Soós Péter: Barangolások hazai tájakon I. (Travels on Home Soil), p. 513-520, Buk Kft., Budapest, 1994

Lake Fertő (Neusiedlersee)Encyclopedic Neusiedler SeeUnesco cultural landscape explanationLake Fertő biosphere reserveLake Fertő nature and developmentFertő-Hanság regionWorld Heritage problemsSoós Péter: Barangolások hazai tájakon II. (Travels on Home Soil), p. 346-353, Buk Kft., Budapest, 1994

4. EVALUATIONExpert guides to Hungarian World Heritage

Experienced guides Rough Guides Visitors

Participation

All three students were active and eager in the creation, making and presentation of the project .

Students participated in the creation making and presentation of the project .

Students at times had an interest in the making of the project .

Students didn`t get into making the project .

Points 25-20 points 19-17 points 16-14 points 13 -

Presented Work

The presented project is compact, creative, shows full knowledge of the area covered and the media used and has high quality English.

The presented project was good, had knowledge of the area covered and used properly the media and had a good quality English.

The presented project was patchy, had some knowledge of the area and the media used and a below average quality English.

The presented project was not thought over, had not much knowledge of the area and the medias chosen with a weak quality.

Points 25-20 points 19-17 points 16-14 points 13 -

4. EVALUATIONExpert guides to Hungarian World Heritage

Experienced guides

Rough Guides Visitors

Team work The students divided the work well and efficiently worked to the best of their knowledge and completed each other.

The students divided the work and worked together and helped each other.

The students could agree on sharing some work, at times helped each other.

Students could not work together and the work is not complete.

Points 25-20 points 19-17 points 16-14 points 13 -

Oral presentation

Each student had a part in the presentation, which was clear, presented in a well-sructured way with a clear command of English.

Students didn`t participate in the presentation to the same degree, the presentation was structured with a good command of English.

Students shared the presentation at times, had a presentation with a below average English.

Presentation did not take place or was not structured, did not share work and the English was not understandable.

Points 25-20 points 19-17 points 16-14 points 13 -

Overall points

100-80 79-68 67-56 55-

5. CONCLUSION Read this after you finished your Comenius

World Heritage project on Hungary. I hope you learnt a lot about your group

mates, the materials used in your project, and oral presentation.

I hope you also learnt a lot about Hungary. This English project also helped to develop

your English and perhaps made you more open to show your country to other people.

I also hope that you got very good marks. But it is also important to look back and

see step by step your work and use the experience in later times.

Congratulations for your efforts!

6. CREDITS AND REFERENCES

For the outline and structure I owe debt to webquest.

The pictures were taken by the designer. The links and books are clearly marked,

for the hypertexts just click and open the internet site. When you finished browsing you can return to this presentation.