My poor test dummies, I mean, students.. As you are probably aware, I try out new CLIL activities in my lessons every now and then. To be honest, I would to do it more often, but I am not always in the most creative mood. Last week however my creativity…
Guest post by Phil Ball, Part 3 of the “Practical CLIL ideas” series Sequence of activities This sequence of activities looks like nothing special at first, but it was very important to me because it confirmed what I’d always thought about good CLIL practice – that it works best when the…
Do your students talk a lot? Good! CLIL is all about maximizing language output for students. But that is not easily achieved when a teacher explains most of the time, leaving little room for students to actually practice their speaking skills, is it? That is were student speaking time comes…
Why are language expectations important? Guest post by Janet Streeter “Do you know One Direction?” “Have you met Justin Biber?” I was reminded that teenagers are the same the world over. I smiled, said “No, sorry, I’m afraid not” in my best British English and looked hopefully at my colleague…
Pronunciation as a vital element of CLIL A couple of months ago I received a mail asking me about the role of pronunciation in CLIL. Or, to be more specific, phonetics. The write mentioned he could not find any specific content about this topic in relation to CLIL. I have…
Easy to implement CLIL activities in your Mathematics lesson! I posted an article about this topic sometime ago and wanted to share more ideas on activities I regularly use in my lesson. For the record: all of these activities require no preparation time at all and can be used in…
A creative approach to CLIL Guest post by Rosie Tanner, Part 2 of the “Practical CLIL ideas” series The CLIL ball is one of my favourite activities. You can use a CLIL ball to activate prior knowledge about a topic or about language or to revise or assess what your CLIL…
In CLIL Magazine issue 10 several CLIL experts shared their best ideas on the use of CLIL in lesson. These ideas will be published online over time and can be found on this page. Part I Peter Sansom: From image to text: How to encourage pupils to think creatively Part II…
Why focus on ICT? As the world around us evolves and becomes more computer-minded (or device-minded, if you want to get technical), we as teachers have to ‘evolve’ as well. In my experience, education is quite often a step behind because of the huge investments involved with new ICT developments…
The latest in-depth CLIL Book It doesn’t often happen that a CLIL book that tries to challenge the established ideas, shake them up a little, and approach CLIL from a different perspective is published. Putting CLIL into Practice does exactly that. I found it to be a refreshing read, cover…