Practical Activities for CLIL Nina Lauder Alcázar de San Juan - 2007 Qui ne connaît pas de langues étrangères ne sait rien de la sienne. One who does not.

Practical Activities for CLILPractical Activities for CLIL

Nina Lauder Nina Lauder

Alcázar de San Juan - 2007Alcázar de San Juan - 2007

Qui ne connaît pas de langues

étrangères ne sait rien de la sienne.

One who does not know foreign languages knows nothing of their

own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Outline for Today’s Session Outline for Today’s Session

Warm up

Oral activities in class

Practical activities

Evaluation and feedback

Important numbers in my lifeImportant numbers in my life Draw the following chart

Now listen and fill in the first column

Compare with a partner

Number My guess Correct answer

Numbers in my lifeNumbers in my life

105 105

41010 41010

2121

1991 1991

1.65 1.65

3636

Check your answers and work in pairs of groups to try and GUESS why these numbers are important to me….

Why use oral activities in class?Why use oral activities in class?

They encourage learning a language in a natural, real context.

They increase the students’ exposure to English They provide a meaningful purpose to English. They give students a chance to improve

listening skills They tie in with the Common European

Framework which makes an emphasis on developing communication skills.

www.cepsevilla.es (Recursos – Materiales de Plurilinguismo)

Possible drawbacks…Possible drawbacks…What are some possible drawbacks

to using oral activities in class?

• Students end up using their mother tongue to do the activity

• Students feel uncomfortable speaking English or lack fluency

• They can get noisy

L’ouverture des frontières et la mondialisation des échanges, comme les progrès de l’intégration européenne,

font de la connaissance des langues un enjeu essentiel, professionnel et culturel, pour le citoyen de demain.

Practical ActivitiesPractical Activities

Numbers in her life

What’s different?

What’s missing?

Dinosaur Data (with cross curricular connections)

Pairwork

Clap if correct

Numbers in HER life…Numbers in HER life…

Unscramble the letters to find the Unscramble the letters to find the

name of this famous inventor:name of this famous inventor:

A R I M E / R I C U E A R I M E / R I C U E

Why were these numbers important in her Why were these numbers important in her life?life?

1867 1934 2 1911 4 1867 1934 2 1911 4

What’s different?What’s different?

AA

BB

CC

- 3 - 3 645645 1515 3 ½3 ½

What’s missing? Study the pictures for 15 seconds Study the pictures for 15 seconds

**NO PENSNO PENS**

Bunsen burner laptop

test tube skipping rope

metronome

calculator

pen drive mouse globe

projector

Now…what’s missing?

Dinosaur DataDinosaur Data

Unscramble these questions:

name / What’s / your? long / are / you / How? you / are / How / tall?

live / Where / do / you? carnivore / you / Are / a ? do / How / move / you ?

you / got / have / other / qualities?

Dinosaur DataDinosaur DataLook at your ‘Dino Info Card’

Ask questions to other dinosaurs

DINO INFO CARDName: Tyrannosaurus rexSize: 12.4 metres long, 5 – 6 metres tallHabitat: humid, sub-tropical forests Eating habits: carnivore Movement: on two, strong legs Additional information: one of the biggest dinosaurs; very fierce

Dinosaur Data QuestionsDinosaur Data Questions

What’s your name?

How long are you?

How tall are you?

Where do you live?

Are you a carnivore?

How do you move?

Have you got other qualities?

Dinosaur Data ChartDinosaur Data Chart

NameName SizeSize HabitatHabitat Eating Eating HabitsHabits

MovementMovement Additional Additional informationinformation

….metres long

…..metres tall

Humid, sub-tropical

forest

Very

fierce; one

of the ……..

dinosaurs ….metres long

…..metres tall

On …….., sturdy

…….

Three horns;

large skull

Pupils fill in a chart when asking questions:

THIS INFORMATION IS IN ‘FORMATO DIGITAL’ OR ON CEP SEVILLE WEBSITE (RECURSOS – MATERIA PLURILINGUISMO)

Cross-Curricular ConnectionsCross-Curricular Connections

What other subject areas could dinosaurs be tied into? How?

Work in groups and build a mind map of possible activities

DINOSAURS

Maths

Graphs

Geography

Cross-Curricular ConnectionsCross-Curricular Connections

DINOSAURS

Maths

-Graphs

-Measurements

Geography

Physical Education

-where dinosaurs lived

-map work

-climate

-how animals move

-healthy diets/habits

Art

-make model dinos

-make puppets

-dino mural

-dinos from plastecine

History

-time lines

-life spans

Science

-bones, muscles

-fossils

Technology

-tools for discovering dinos

-on-line quizzes

Infant ClassesInfant Classes

COLOURING

FINGER PUPPET

DRAWINGS

Projects Projects

Dinosaurs Lived Long AgoDinosaurs Lived Long Ago(sung to "London Bridge is Falling Down")(sung to "London Bridge is Falling Down")

Dinosaurs lived long ago, long ago, long ago,

Dinosaurs lived long ago, That's prehistoric!

Brontosaurus was very big, very big, very big,

Brontosaurus was very big, that's prehistoric!

SongsSongs

En FrançaisEn Français

La vie se développe dans l'eau: bactéries, algues puis animaux au corps mous (éponge, vers ..)

Précambrien (< 570 millions d'années)

Ere primaire  (570 millions à 235

millions d'années)

coquillage, animaux invertébrés  à carapace 

(570 M.A.)

puis règne des poissons cuirassés  (550 M.A)

puis règne des grands amphibiens (340 M.A.)

Ere secondaire (245 millions à 65

millions d'années)

Règne des dinosaures

Resources Resources Photocopiable resource booksPhotocopiable resource books www.link2english.com www.link2english.com

Non-fiction readers and reference booksNon-fiction readers and reference books

InternetInternet (on-line activities and photocopiable material)(on-line activities and photocopiable material)

ELT Coursebooks and resourcesELT Coursebooks and resources

MORE INFORMATION IN ‘FORMATO DIGITAL’

Thank you for coming!!

Merci beaucoup!

Good luck and happy teaching!