MEDEA Awards 2009 Special Award: Daisy and Drago

Daisy and Drago is a MEDEA Awards entry by two teachers from the Terakki Foundation Schools in Istanbul, Turkey. It is an educational project which was created by 6-year old Turkish pupils and aims to entertain young learners while they learn a foreign language and help to build permanent learning in English. In a repetitive and funny story young children can learn to use the English phrases I can I cant Can you? as the young girl Daisy invites her friend Drago to several of her favourite sports activities, but he cant do them as he is a dragon and she is a human, but there is one thing that Drago can do...

Complete video of Daisy and Drago, uploaded by the two teachers, Miss. Özge Karaoğlu and Mrs. Havva Kangal Erdoğan
By integrating Art and English lessons, pupils had the opportunity to learn and combine artistry and language skills during the production of this animation film and their audiovisual aids are now an important part of the resulting animation. They learned how to record their voices and sounds for the animation, but also to create and maintain teamwork and present their artwork to an audience.

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