Our activities aimed at a peer-teaching of Lithuanian to the students from the partner schools. The methodology used was based on Suggestopaedia. In preparation for the peer-teaching, the Lithuanian school students were divided into teams of peer-teachers, assistant teachers and tech supporters. The peer teachers were trained in Suggestopaedia by the English teachers at the hosting school and by the project coordinator online. The assistant teachers cooperating with teachers of the English and Lithuanian languages, designed the syllabus and produced the materials drawing from the parallel eTwinning project “Culture Mirrors”. (https://twinspace.etwinning.net/111684/pages/page/950594)                               

The lessons followed the suggestopedic guidelines of four stages: Introduction, Musical Session, Elaboration and Production. During the introduction, the peer teachers engaged the learners in conversation, modelling out ways of performing everyday communication tasks in Lithuanian. During the Musical Session, the students were immersed in the natural flow of the language while listening to peer teachers read the Lithuanian libretto accompanied by classical music. During the elaboration, the learners were offered a textbook with the basics of the Lithuanian language as well as a workbook. The language functions were taught in a communicative way enriched with interactive games, didactic and authentic songs and dances. At the production, they role-played a casting interview and answered a questionnaire in Lithuanian .

For the peer teaching activity we created a suggestopedic textbook, a workbook, posters, handouts, didactic songs and games, a slide presentation, digital games, a language test, a treasure-hunt game and evaluation tools.