Title: Raising student's motivation to learning languages Participants: 1 Participant's profile: Ms Kwiatkowska has graduated from 'State Higher Vocational School' in Płock (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Płocku) with the title of BA in English language teaching. She continued studying on 'Społeczna Wyższa Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości i Zarządzania' in Łódź. She got the title of MA in English language and translation on 10 December, 2011. As a teacher she has been working since 1 October, 2008 in different types of schools. First, she worked in the primary school 'Szkoła Podstawowa im. ks. Jana Twardowskiego w Gawłowie' from 1 September, 2008 - 24 July, 2009, and from 1 September, 2009 - 31 August, 2010. Then, she worked in the senior secondary school 'Zespól Szkól im. Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza w Sochaczewie'.She has been working in Zespół Szkół w Sochaczewie since 1 September, 2011. Ms Kwiatkowska works mainly with the students of junior secondary school 16/18 and she also teaches in the primary school 2/18. Aims of the project: 1. proving Ms Kwiatkowska's language competence in speaking, writing, reading, listening, 2. raising students' motivation to learning foreign languages. It is going to happen by making lessons more enjoyable and worthwile. The course 'Creative activities and motivating materials for the secondary classroom' is for teachers who want to explore a wide range of teaching ideas and activities designed to motivate students and make the language lessons more interesting. On the workshops, teacher trainers will talk about: a variety of motivating activities which engage students' imagination and creativity - innovative role play and drama activities, use of media, poetry and stories ; learner styles and learner training- different strategies for differentiation; increasing motivation and inclusivity in the classroom, motivating mixed ability classes; creative activities for large classes; cross-cirrcular laguage teaching; developing learner autonomy; language analysis for teaching; all four skills - particulary integrated tasks; stimulating activities for exploiting textbooks; creative writing activities; correction and feedback strategies; evaluation and assessment; using authentic materials; grammar activities; teaching vocabulary; the Lexical Approach; task based learning; using new technology; recent developments in English. There is also going to be a lecture on the Education System, a day visit to State Schools, a workshop on life in Britain, 3. training other teachers on the topics mentioned above, 4. making contacts with teachers from different European countries and do a project with them Context of the project: Students in primary schools are pretty motivated to learning English. They are eager to take part in English lessons, collect stamps for being active, prepare posters. However, the situation changes a bit later on. In junior secondary schools, they somehow lose their willingness to studying. There can be a few reasons: their difficult age of adolescence, but also the way of giving lessons by teachers. In their childhood teachers were repeating words for a few lessons, they played more games, read shorter texts. The situation has changed, they are asked to study more at home, teachers speak a lot, too much, there is not much place for moving - kinesthetic way of learning and additionally many students from Zespół Szkół are from poor families, parents do not help them, they often have to rely on their own. This is the reason of why we want to change our lessons, we want to give students more fun at school not only 'speak', we want to show them that the world gives them many possibilities and the only thing they have to do is to try. They can look at their English teacher, who takes part in programmes from European Union. They can also visit foreign countries if they help their teacher in preparing a project. Description of what is going to be done: We want one of our teachers to take part in the workshops 'Creative Activities and Motivating Materials for the Secondary Classroom' and train others after coming back. Our teacher is going to read the books from recommended reading to prepare for the workshops. We are going to prepare materials to promote our school and region among teachers from other countries. Our school Our teacher is going to talk to other teachers from our school and prepare a list of questions, she will ask to teacher trainers on the course. After coming back, we want Ms Kwiatkowska to talk about what she saw and learnt, train interested teachers on creative activities and motivating materials. The teacher will also present interesting information on the region she visited to students. She will write an article about the course, which will appear on the school's Internet website. We hope, that the course will influence school's positive image, students will get more interesting lessons, which will make them forget about their problems.