CLIL Essentials

1.1  Aims  of  and  rationale  for  CLIL   Participant  worksheet  

Principles in action - Answer sheet

Conditions Aims for the classroom Examples of classroom tasks

Learning is whole when we use:
x multiple areas of learning
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x achievement and evaluation
We can create a sense of community by:
x getting children to collaborate on
activities and share experiences
x encouraging cooperation, help and
Culture respect within the group
x rewarding risks
x identifying their roles inside and outside
the classroom
x Use pictures to elicit parts of the body from
students and categorise them into hard or
soft, later introduce lexis: limb and organ
x Involve learners to agree on the evaluation
criteria for the next task
x Jigsaw reading tasks require cooperation
and sharing of information between groups
to complete a task
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Content needs to:

x be natural, real or understandable
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Content x be engaging and allow for learning to
be active x Mathematical problems are presented in
x encourage language use as a vehicle everyday contexts (with pictures if possible)
to do things (role plays/tasks etc.)

We can encourage communication by:

x setting the classroom up (seating,
posters, resources) to support
x Learners negotiate to get the supplies they
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x scaffolding tasks which reduces stress
and makes explorative tasks more
x Learners analyse a model text to identify the
manageable
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Communication x providing learning opportunities that writing their own
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x Teacher provides useful language before an
x offering choices about how to do things
activity.
x Reducing teacher talking time (TTT)
and increasing student talking time
(STT)

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