Old games are still alive

Kostas from Kavasila High school and Alena Mayova from Gymnasium Česká Lípa are both PE teachers. They decided to try a project in the eTwinning,too. The name of the project was The old games are still
alive.It was a short project in which they introduced each other the rules of one old game. The Czech teacher introduced the game BEATING OUT. It was difficult to translate the name into English, but the rules were quite clear.
The Greek teacher described the game called FAININDA, really a very old game.
Then, both teachers tried to teach the games during PE lessons and they also introduced the partner´s school. At the end of the school year the games will be played in public.
The good thing of the project was that both teachers practised ICT tools and also English. The Czech teacher Alena Mayová has started studying English course to be able to communicate better.
When I visited Greece in April 2006 I also went to Kavasila High school. Kostas asked me to take part in his PE lesson and he showed me the way how they had understood the rules of the Czech game. It was so interesting to see this game being played by the Greek children. They found the game too cruel and they didn´t want to hit the players with the ball. They didn´t want to hurt themselves. So instead of hitting the opposite players, they hit the floor and then waited if the ball hit somebody by chance.I explained the rules to them again and in a few minutes they knew how to play the game.
At the end of the lesson they showed me their game which is really very old and comes from the ancient times.Now I will know if the Czech students can play Faininda well. Also the presentation helped us very much