My Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the benefits of Comenius Project.
Central Idea: Joining in Comenius Project will improve participant's English listening & speaking skills as well as giving them opportunity to meet new people and get to know about their cultures. I am going to inform you about Comenius Project and its benefits on the participants by using examples based on my experiences and I am going to start with description of Comenius Project. Comenius programme is a European Union project for school-level education. It is named after the 17th-century Czech educator John Amos Comenius. The aim of the project is to help young people understand the European cultures, languages and their value as well as developing their knowledge and language skills. It also helps young people to develop their personal skills for a basic life requirements like self-esteem or self-confidence. In this project, the participants meet with each other in each partner country at certain intervals. They stay at the participants' house for at most 2 weeks and they spend time with host families. They go to their school to do social activities like preparing music or cultural dance performances, to share and discuss researches which the participants do about host participants' culture, languages or values before. They also discover the cities' important places like museums, churches or mosques and other touristic places. They do activities like shopping or hanging out together in the city centre. Participants have great chance to meet new people and make a good friendships thanks to Comenius. This project helps participants develop their language skills in the way that they do research about the partner countries' culture, language or history in English before the meeting in each partner country and then they go to each country to meet with the partners and to share and discuss what they know about each other before. They have to do