Kamil Trzebiatowski (EAL Coordinator, Newland School for Girls, Kingston-upon-Hull)

ASE TeachMeet, York: 6 July 2015

Do You CLIL?

http://valuediversity-teacher.co.uk/

CLIL Content and Language Integrated Learning

Teaching subjects such as science, history or geography through another language.

Perfect for the subject teacher using English as

the language of instruction.

Result: learning content and English at the same

time.

PERFECT FOR EAL

WHY?

NALDIC: “EAL is primarily about teaching and learning language

through the content of the whole curriculum.”

NALDIC, 1999: The Distinctiveness of English as an Additional Language: a cross-curriculum discipline

The task ahead of EAL learners

BASS (2006) Distinguishing the difference – SEN or EAL?

EAL Learners have to:• Learn English• Learn content through the curriculum• Socialise with other children in the yet-unlearnt

language• Learn culturally-embedded social practices of

the classroom

Catching up is essentially EAL children’s problem – curriculum doesn’t wait.EAL children have a moving target.

NALDIC (1999) The Distinctiveness of English as an Additional Language: a cross-curriculum discipline: A Handbook for All Teachers

If a child is 3 years behind (linguistically), every year they need to make 1 ½ years of progress (for 6 years) to catch up with native speakers.

All the questions are in Present Simple. Let’s teach that!

1• Read the text• Complete the diagram

2• Underline all the verbs in one of the

texts

3• Provide substitution table for

writing sentences in Present Simple

4• Write a paragraph (in Present

Simple) using only the diagram

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FOCUS ON IMPERATIVES

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1. ______ the oven to 100 degrees C.2. _____ the chocolate, bread, stone, paper

and water on the trays.3. _______ one tray empty.

4. _______ a photograph of each tray.5. _____ all the trays in the oven for 5 minutes.6. _______ out the trays and _________ each

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AND AGAIN – FOCUS ON LANGUAGE

WHAT TYPE OF WORDS ARE

MISSING?

Are they:• content words?• language words?

From: Workman, G. (2014) CLIL Maths and Science Materials. Gem Publishing

Sequencing – words, paragraphs, sentencesLabelling a diagramGrouping parts of texts according to categoriesCompleting a table, diagram or flowchartGap-fills: missing words, phrases or sentences Underline or highlight parts of texts: e.g. adjectives,

adverbs, connectivesGive each paragraph a titleDraw a table or diagram using information from a textWrite questions about a text

CHANGE THE TEXT A LITTLE USE THE ORIGINAL TEXT

Millions of tonnes of metals are used every year for many different jobs. They are used for building cars and bridges (iron), making drink cans and food packaging (aluminium), plumbing and electrical wires (copper) and making batteries (zinc). But they all face one

problem. That is corrosion.

We use millions of tonnes of metals every year for many different jobs.

Millions of tonnes of metals are used every year for many different jobs.

YOU CAN’T USE “WE” NOW

IRON ALUMINIUM COPPER

BUILDING BRIDGES BUILDING CARSMAKING DRINK CANS FOOD PACKAGING

ELECTRICAL WIRES PLUMBINGMAKING BATTERIES

We use metals to

NOW WRITE ABOUT METALS BUT DON’T USE “WE”.

Sentence and paragraph scrambler:

http://davidbrett.uniss.it/eLearningTools/paragraph%20scrambler.html

Gap-fill generator:http://random-idea-english.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/tools-gapfill-generator.html

Cloze generator (removes specific types of words):

http://l.georges.online.fr/tools/cloze.html

Total Cloze generator:http://esl.fis.edu/learners/writing/misc/star1.htm

DO NOTspend hours on this!

Graham Workman: CLIL Maths and Science Materials. Gem Publishing

Margaret Grieveson and Wendy Superfine: The CLIL Resource Pack. DELTA Publishing: Peaslake

Liz Dale and Rosie Tanner: CLIL Activities: A resource for subject and language teachers. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge

MacMillan’s CLIL pages: http://www.onestopenglish.com/clil/young-learners/science/

Graham Workman’s pages: https://grahamworkmansecondary.wikispaces.com/?responseToken=0794874e0ee2a892e327ef1f3936452e7

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