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"Baby" CLIL: English and Math Hand in Hand
ByMargarita Kosior
What is CLIL?
• Content and Language Integrated Learning• Classrooms where a language other than the ss'
mother tongue is used as medium of instruction• Learning through acquisition rather than through
explicit learning• Use of foreign language for 'authentic
communication'
Math around us
• Playing store (money / value recognition)• Hopscotch• Using counting for understanding time
Math – indicative contentAge: 3-4
• Lines • Colors• Opposites• Position words (above, below, beside, inside,
outside, up, and down)• Shapes• Numbers 1-10
Math – indicative contentAge: 4-5
• Lines• Colors – revision• Shapes – revision • Numbers 1-10 – revision• Numbers 11-20• Sums and subtractions
Math – indicative contentAge: 5-6
• Revision:– Shapes– Numbers 1-20
• Math problems (sum and subtraction)• Ordering and sequencing
BooksAge: 3-4
• Books
BooksAge: 3-4 – cont’d
Other activitiesAge: 3-4 – cont’d
• Lines
Other activitiesAge: 3-4 – cont’d
• Colors: primary and secondary colors
Other activitiesAge: 3-4 – cont’d
• Shapes– Snowman– Ice-cream– Blocks of flats with
square windows
Other activitiesAge: 3-4 – cont’d
• Counting – Ladybug– Apple tree
StoriesAge: 3-4
• Colors and couting
Online resourcesNumbersAge:3-4
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm
Online resourcesColors
Age:3-4
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm
Online resourcesColors
Age:3-4
Games
• Opposites
BooksAge: 4-5
BooksAge: 4-5 – cont’d
Other activitiesAge: 4-5
• Identify numbers by shape
Other activitiesAge: 4-5 – cont’d
• Addition: adding and counting machine
BooksAge: 5-6
BooksAge: 5-6 – cont’d
BooksAge: 5-6 – cont’d
Other activitiesAge: 5-6
• Spelling number words: where spelling and math meet
Other activitiesAge: 5-6 – cont’d
Other activitiesAge: 5-6 – cont’d
http://www.communication4all.co.uk/Numeracy/Lilypad%20number%20line%20game.pdf
Songs
Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKPyO2vJEME
Songs – cont’d
• How Many?
Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zaC5onBvM
Benefits
Benefits – cont’d
• Overall linguistic competence• Improved oral functional production
Benefits – cont’d
Concerns and challenges
• How much target language to use?• Time-consuming
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every
door along the way.”Frank Smith
ResourcesOnline resources:• http://clil-network.uta.fi/index.php?id=18• http://www.goethe.de/ges/spa/dos/ifs/ceu/en2751287.htm• http://www.moed.bm/academics/Parental%20Information/Bermud
a%20Preschool%20Standards%20(NJ%20Adopted)/Bermuda%20Preschool%20Standards%20(NJ%20adopted).pdf
Books:Carol Medcalf, Collins Easy Learning – Numbers: Age 3-5Vincent Douglas, Total math: PreschoolPenny Dowdy, Shapes and Patterns (Get Ready for Preschool)Penny Dowdy, Shpes and Patterns (Get Ready for Reception)School Specialty Publishing, Brighter Child Coors and Shapes, PreschoolSchool Specialty Publishing, Brighter Child Numbers 1-10, PreschoolCarol Vonderman, Math Made Easy: Shapes and Patterns
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