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…
Tests in a CLIL setting So, in your CLIL lessons you: keep an eye on the language output of students make sure students are engaged with the tasks you prepared for them motivate students to speak English all the time. So far so good right? Indeed! But you are not…
Practical ideas! With only a few CLIL books out there, I quickly noticed this CLIL resource pack. The book itself is quite different for a couple of reasons. First of all, the target audience are primary schools and lower grades of the secondary schools. Furthermore, unlike other CLIL books, this…
The book as a start, not as a goal.. As a Maths teacher, I always use my book as a source for the problems my students have to do. It is simply too much of a task to come up with all of the problems myself. Yet, instead of just…
CLIL and Second Language Learning: A must? Whenever CLIL is discussed within any content, the main topic is always: second language acquisition. This makes sense, because CLIL is all about learning a second language while learning a subject at the same time. Or is it? The role of language within…