CLIL lesson plans: areas and objectives

CLIL lesson plans: areas and objectives

CLIL for Children content map for CLIL lessons

CLIL lessons objectives - the 4 Cs principle

CLIL topics by modules

Students

flexible

lower primary/

upper primary

English teacher/

content teacher

big groups/ small groups

Subject area

Science

Geography

Mathematics

Modules

The world of plants

The world of animals

The world around us

The world of numbers

The world of shapes and units

3 Lessons

1st general

2nd specific

3rd project

Objectives

Linguistic: vocab

Linguistic: skills

Linguistic: functions

Content

CLIL for Children content map for CLIL lessons

CONTENT (THROUGH LANGUAGE)

The foreign language is learned through topic content

provided in a way that encourages active natural learning

The focus for language learning is NOT on structure or

grammar, but on language use in real-life contexts (to

solve tasks)

COMMUNICATION

The emphasis is put on effective linguistic learning for

communication and immediate use

Language is used as a medium to perform tasks, solve

problems, develop projects, as well as to express ideas

COGNITION

The foreign language (English) is used as a language for

thinking in parallel with the mother tongue

Using English for thinking enriches understanding of

concepts

CULTURE

Learning a foreign language is learning about cultures that

use that language and contrasting them with one’s own

culture

Using English for communication and thinking is a key

competence to function across multilingual globalised

spaces

CLIL lessons objectives - the 4 Cs principle

• Module information:

Subject area: Geography

Module: The world around us

3 Lessons (90’)

• Lesson topics:

Exploring the Solar system

Travelling around the EU

What’s the weather like today?

Lesson 1: Exploring the Solar system

Language and Communication

Vocabulary: names of the planets of the Solar System, solar system, revolve around the sun, spin, closest, hottest, largest, rings, orbit, coldest, planet, highland, lowland, mountains, waterfall, volcano, river, lake, sea, ocean, highest, deepest, canyon

Skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking

Functions: giving basic information about each planet, extreme geographical features of the world and students’ own countries,

Lesson 1: Exploring the Solar system

• Content : order of planets, concept of planet movement, basic information on each planet, basic information about extreme geographical features

• Culture : understanding the place of man in space, identifying extreme geographical features in ss’ countries

• Cognition : orientation on the map, ordering

The world of animals

Animals at home and in

the jungle

Scales, fur and

feathers

Animals in our care

The world of plants

Physical size of plants

Plant parts and life cycle

The growth of a plant

The world around us

Exploring the Solar system

Travelling around the EU

What’s the weather like

today?

The world of numbers

Metric vs customary

units

Time zones

Venn diagrams

The world of shapes and units

Shapes are fun

Fractions in action

Let’s play, let’s weigh

CLIL topics by modules

Science - the world of plants

• Students recognise selected spieces of flowers,trees and herbs

• Students match UK countries with their symbolflowers

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

• Students name anatomical parts of plants(seed, roots, stem/trunk, leaves, flowers, branches)

• Students understand and describe the life cycle ofa plant

Lesson 3

• Students plant and record growth of a plant

• Students enact Jack and the Beanstalk mini drama

Science - the world of animals

• Students categorise animals

• Students describe what animals eat, where theylive, what they can do

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

• Students name anatomical parts of selectedanimals (tail, wings, fur, etc.)

• Students describe animals

Lesson 6

• Students know how people take care of animals

(e.g. pets, wild animals, forest animals in winter)

• Students prepare projects on selected animals (e.g

posters, descriptions, etc.)

Geography - the world around us

• Students name and point on the map EU countries

• Students match selected EU countries with

characteristic elements (language, flag, capital,symbols, etc.)

Lesson 7

Lesson 8

• Students name selected elements of landscape

and locate them on the map of Europe and theircountries (e.g. river, lake, mountain, etc.)

• Students design a map of the world with extreme

elements of landscapes and present it(e.g. The longest river, the highest mountain)

Lesson 9

• Students describe the phenomena andconsequences of extreme weather conditions

• Students present the water cycle.

Maths - the world of numbers

Lesson 10

• Students read long numbers• Student do equations on large numbers

(3-, 4-digit numbers)

Lesson 11

• Students tell the time on the clock and calculate the

time in different time zones

• Students know the calendar and do text tasks

based on the calendar

Lesson 12

• Students can read coordinates (eg. play battleship,

colour a hidden picture)

• Students understand the notion of inclusive,

exclusive, joined and disjoined sets and ascribe

concrete objects to the sets

Maths - the world of shapes and units

Lesson 13

• Students name selected geometrical instruments

and geometric figures and their space relations.

• Students create tangrams with various figures and

describe their pictures.

Lesson 14

• Students understand the notion of fractions and

use them in text tasks.

• Students understand the idea of percentage and

present data in the form of a graph

Lesson 15

• Students match products with containers and

metric units they are sold in

• Students use money to tell prices and

amounts/numbers of products.

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