Teaching vulnerable groups English and teaching them about intangible cultural heritage: myths, legends, tales were approached in the 4 Elements project joint staff trainig held in Reus. The Reus municipality representatives who addressed the training call their town “a small big town” which is exactly the impression it gives to its visitors. The town has approx. 100 000 inhabitants, but narrow streets and small squares squeezed among them give the feeling of a small Mediterranean settlement. Reus, however, has good urban infrastructure and a robotized hospital on the top of it.
Though the project partners may be discordant, their expertise is compatible. The French editors Les Apprimeurs are setting up an E-book for dyslectic/older learners (SIGIL – an open code multi-platform e-editor). For those who have reading difficulties an auditive file will be created. The size of fonts and fonts themselves will be varied, as well as background colour could be changed, which is quite useful for older learners as well. The digital program StoryBird was presented by DomSpain. This is an educational application that can be easily used in older adult education https://storybird.com/. Universal principles of cultural interpretation (John Muri) were presented by My artist, a Greek partner. Instituto dei Sordi from Turin introduced the participants to the language of signs. Slovenian Third Age University contributed theoretical discussion on four elements: earth, fire, water, air in old and contemporary urban myths, legends and fairy tales. (Source: Olena Bilozerova, DomSpain)
