PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES FOR TRAINING CLIL TEACHERS

Ana Lorena Molina Castro

ELT Academic Consultant

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TASK 1

What activities do you expect to

take place in a communicative

English lesson?

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TYPICAL COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIESInformation-gaps

Role plays

Pair work

Group work

Projects

Discussions

Games

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WHAT IS CLIL?

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TEACHING OF

CONTENT OF THE

CURRICULUM

THINKING& LEARNING

SKILLS

TEACHING OF

NON-NATIVE

LANGUAGE

DEMO LESSON SOCIAL STUDIESLearning Objective:

Learners will be able to

differentiate and describe

the processes

of weathering and erosion

and their effect on Earths

surface.

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WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN THESE TWO PICTURES?

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PAIR WORK DISCUSSIONWas this Social Studies demo lesson

similar to the ones you experienced

when you were at school?

How did the class begin?

What was the strategy used to give

new input?

What activity was proposed to

practice?

How were the 4Cs reflected in the

demo lesson?

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DO YOU REMEMBER?

What is CLIL?

What practical activitiesare expected to happen

in content subject classes?

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CONCLUSIONS

CLIL training sessions should includedemo-lessons on different subjects.

Cognitive demand of activities in theseCLIL demo-lessons should move from

activating LOTS to activating HOTS.

Activities used can be similar to those ofa regular communicative English Class.

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