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CLIL courses and handbook News

It's all in the planning!

The 4Cs, HOTS & LOTS, thinking skills, BICS, CALP... Only L2 ... little to no L1 ... 

Sounds gibberish doesn't it?

Even more if YOU are meant to include ALL of these in each activity of your CLIL lesson!

No Fret! it's all in the planning!

 

 

What to plan?

A CLIL lesson should be planned in detail in order to include all key elements that make a CLIL lesson. These are:

  • The 4Cs (content, cognition, communication, culture)
  • Prior knowledge
  • Learning objectives & Scaffolding
  • Activities with HOTS & LOTS and cognitive levels & age in mind
  • Materials & resources
  • Evaluation

The elements just mentioned should be relatively all included in the steps of your lesson.

 

THE MAIN STEPS OF A CLIL LESSON ARE:

1. Welcome routine

2. Introduction to the lesson

3. Presentation of New Content

4. Working session

5. Evaluation

6. Wrap up routine

 

 

The lesson plan provided with "The CLIL Approach - handbook" assists you in thinking of all the elements before the lesson. So you can have a detailed plan helping you to run the lesson as smoothly as possible. It is fully comprehensive and allows, as a standard, the inclusion of every important and necessary aspect for you to plan into your CLIL lesson. For each step of your lesson, the template includes sections to note thinking skills, R&W, speaking, listening, activities, games, evaluation as well as warm up and wrap up activities.

The 3rd page of the lesson plan is a customizable activity page that you can copy, personalize and use for as many activities you will need to design for your lesson.

The lesson plan template is provided in the handbook I wrote "The CLIL Approach", but if you'd like to receive a copy directly to your email then scroll up to the top of the CLIL section and tell me where to send it by signing up to my newsletter.

Effective CLIL starts with good planning... read more

Practically Speaking

Grammar, rules, formulas, Q&A forms... These are all very, very important! They give you strong foundations to build your long term knowledge of English through starter courses or more confident in English courses.

There are also other approaches...

CLIL methodology, for example, activates real time communication about concepts and topics being taught by the teacher who enables the students to express themselves about what they are learning there and then - Practically speaking.

Choose the type of learning that fits you and your needs the most.

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