OUR EXAMPLE OF CLIL

Hello classmates,

In today's lesson we talked about the CLIL project. CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. It refers to teaching subjects such as science, history and geography to students through a foreign (or not necessarily foreign) language. This can be by the English teacher using cross-curricular content or the subject teacher using English as the language of instruction.

So, we will do our own example of CLIL project.

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 The most important point for us is to teach English but in a funny way. We don't want our students to get bored; we want them to participate actively (of course, meanwhile learning). So the activities will be games.

-       Moreover, we will group our students. The objective is to cooperate and work in groups. (That’s because we think that in that way we can learn more and better).

-        Talking about methodology, we think that some rituals or routines makes the students feel better and be more relaxed (because they know that will happen). So to start the class we will sing a song. After, we will tell them a story, and this story will be related with the next activity that we are going to do. For instance, we will tell them a story about some colors and after they will draw the rainbow). And for the end of the class, we will finish it with a song or with a game. OF COURSE ALL THE TIME THE TEACHER WILL SPEAK IN ENGLISH AND ALL THE ACTIVITIES, SONGS AND EXERCISES WILL BE IN THAT LANGUAGE.

-       More things that we talked about our project; the teacher will make some open-questions so that the students will answer. Furthermore, the teacher will make repeating sentences or some words. (In our project, we decided that for us the most important thing is the speaking language, but we don’t rule out the written English.

-       The topics that we will work in our project are the ones that are interesting for OUR students. So, when we know our students we will decide the examples of the didactic units. But those who usually have much success or the most used are; animals, family, feelings, means of transport and community workers, body parts, colors… But as teacher, we will work the ones who are significant.

-     Talking about material, and according to the text we read about CLIL, we will use, CDs, DVDs, puppets, books, songs… (We require for the material; native English speakers).

Finally, we want to use English with a natural way (in discussions…).

WE KNOW THAT ALL OF THIS IS EASY TO WRITE, BUT NOT TO PUT IN PRACTISE, BUT DON’T DESMOTIBATE!! WITH PRACTISE AND WITH PATIENCE WE CAN ACHIECE.

COME ON FUTURE TEACHERS, YES WE CAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!