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THE BEST OF ALLEGRO

"I have learned as much from the people I have taught as they have learned from me."
A teacher in Nottingham, England

In Cuenca, Spain, children with Down's syndrome are learning English using an interactive whiteboard.

After discussing typical courses in Sweden the rumour spread to the centre restaurant who obtained the recipe for a Swedish speciality called Janssons Frestelse. It was put on the menu one Friday in the centre restaurant which caters to about 300 residents and outside users of the centre.

Parents in Nottingham, England, join in their eleven-year-olds to watch a French presentation, La Courgette Volante, with juggling, unicycles and a talking Mona Lisa.

500 marginalised learners across Europe are learning languages with ALLEGRO.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS IN UNITED KINGDOM

We have worked with 13 organisations in Nottingham and the East Midlands, forging close links with them at all levels.

We have set up 16 sub-projects, reaching a total of over 200 learners.

We have taught Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch.

Learners have varied in age from 2 to 70.

We have worked in two local prisons, providing opportunities to learn a language for inmates whose education programme cannot usually provide this.

We have set up several projects with parents and their children, to promote family learning and to show them how to encourage their children to become enthusiastic language learners.

Our teachers have come mainly from the Department of Languages at Nottingham Trent University and have welcomed this opportunity to widen their teaching experience.

We have won a European Award for Languages 2005 [European Languages Label] for our innovative work.

Spanish dancing at SureStart