CLIL

5 WORDS

• Personal meaningful understanding.
• Interthinking
• Patterns
• Interactive behaviour
• Apprentice

3 IDEAS

• Using the language in everyday experiences improves communication and makes it successful.
• Children need to transform their everyday understanding into the systematic and meaningful knowledge of a community subject.
• Teacher has to be an expert guide to assure understanding and the correct developing of learning and communicative skills, giving them tools.

1 MAIN IDEA

CLIL is something that involves  all educational community. It's a project of the whole school, not only the responsability of an English teacher during one our. If any center want to promote successful leassons of CLIL, it has to be very concious about the amount of effort and the proper way of work it. I doesn't mean only translation of few words or contents; it means teaching only in English some units, so they have to work in order to get a lesson at the same level of one in L1 but with more scaffolding, language help and supervision of understanding.

IN MY SCHOOL

In this school, they make Science in fifth and sixth grade one our per week. They also have a book, so they follow it and practice the content through its activities. In each trimestre, there is a book with a specific topic that they treat along the three months.

Moreover, I consider that there is a whole school connection because its content is shared with Sciences in Catalan, so they have to arrange the different themes that they are going to treat as they have to be different but with a relation.

Finally, as I can observe is very challenging and motivating for them. Maybe, they like more Science than English lessons as they can practice and acquire the language skills without thinking on them, so they find it more engaging and meaningful. They participate more they feel more secure using this language and it is funny for them learning somethings in English.