Applications in CLIL

 

This session has been dedicated to study applications in CLIL. CLIL teachers can activate a new subject in different ways. The choice of activating tasks will depend on the lesson which follow. These tasks may seem time-consuming. but they are worth implementing. In the long run, they will often make learning more effective.

Teachers can deal with or more of the following aspects of a topic:

• language
• knowledge
• experience
• thinking

They can also select activating tasks which take into account:

• interactions
• multiple intelligences

After the theorical introduction we made activities to activate the diferent aspects of a topic.

Finally, the teacher gave us practical lesson ideas to activate knowledge that we had to desenvolupate like:

• Key words
• Competition: quickest or most
• Questions
• Scrambled sentences
• Red and green cards
• Props or visuals
• Video clip
• Internet
• Spider diagram
• Kwl grid
• Placemat
• Venn diagram
• Think, pair, share
• Predict, observe and explain
• Sentence stem
• Target practice

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

In the afternoon we visited the Bolhao market. Then took a boat to tour the Ribera del Duero.