The work has been done in part at school and in part at home. The class spontaneously arranged in groups and each of them gave his/her contribution. They were happy to be protagonists and any decision was taken in class after a discussion.
Though we had a clear idea of what to tell, the organization of the work has undoubtly been the hardest part of the work. They wanted to tell so many things that one narration wasn't enough. So selection of texts and pictures took us a little while, but in the end we all agreed with the choices made.
They chose who had to be the narrators and who had to be in the technical team and we used the new lab of the school with the interactive white board, to pass the narration into "1001 storia".
They turned to be very professional and self confident and this increased the self esteem of some students. Moreover, they proved to be able to solve problems even those they didn't expect to face. Through the linguistic activities of production, listening, interaction and mediation, they improved their communicative competence and used the L2 to talk about something which wasn't strictly connected to their English syllabus as the CLIL approach advocates.
All this was very stimulating and the result was not only the narration in itself but the sense of pride they felt for the work done.
They loved going around their town looking for medieval traces to show to other people through their narration.
Their enthusiasm was my reward.