Practical Activities for CLIL

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Practical Activities for CLIL
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)

• Nina Lauder
• Alcázar de San Juan - 2007

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Outline for Todays Session

• Warm up
• Oral activities in class
• Practical activities
• Evaluation and feedback

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Important 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

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

• 105
• 41010
• 21

• 1991
• 1.65
• 36

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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)
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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

Louverture des frontières et la mondialisation
des échanges, comme les progrès de lintégration
européenne, font de la connaissance des langues
un enjeu essentiel, professionnel et culturel,
pour le citoyen de demain.
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Practical Activities

• Numbers in her life
• Whats different?
• Whats missing?
• Dinosaur Data
• (with cross curricular connections)
• Pairwork
• Clap if correct

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Numbers in HER life

• Unscramble the letters to find the
• name of this famous inventor
• A R I M E / R I C U E
• Why were these numbers important in her life?
• 1867 1934 2 1911 4

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Whats different?
A
B
C - 3 645 15 3 ½
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Whats missing?

• Study the pictures for 15 seconds
• 
  NO PENS

Bunsen burner
laptop
skipping rope
test tube
calculator
metronome
projector
mouse
globe
pen drive
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Nowwhats missing?
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Dinosaur Data

• Unscramble these questions
• name / Whats / 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?

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Dinosaur Data

• Look at your Dino Info Card
• Ask questions to other dinosaurs

DINO INFO CARD Name Tyrannosaurus rex Size
12.4 metres long, 5 6 metres
tall Habitat humid, sub-tropical forests
Eating habits carnivore Movement on two,
strong legs Additional information one of the
biggest dinosaurs very fierce
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Dinosaur Data Questions

• Whats 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?

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Dinosaur Data Chart
Pupils fill in a chart when asking questions
Name Size Habitat Eating Habits Movement Additional information
.metres long ..metres tall Humid, sub-tropical forest Very fierce one of the .. dinosaurs
.metres long ..metres tall On .., sturdy . Three horns large skull
THIS INFORMATION IS IN FORMATO DIGITAL OR ON
CEP SEVILLE WEBSITE (RECURSOS MATERIA
PLURILINGUISMO)
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Cross-Curricular Connections

• What other subject areas could dinosaurs be tied
  into? How?
• Work in groups and build a mind map of possible
  activities

Graphs
Maths
Geography
DINOSAURS
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Cross-Curricular Connections
-tools for discovering dinos -on-line quizzes
-where dinosaurs lived -map work -climate
Technology
Geography
Maths
DINOSAURS
-Graphs -Measurements
-make model dinos -make puppets -dino
mural -dinos from plastecine
Art
Physical Education
Science
-how animals move -healthy diets/habits
History
-bones, muscles -fossils
-time lines -life spans
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Infant Classes
FINGER PUPPET
COLOURING
DRAWINGS
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Projects
Songs

• Dinosaurs Lived Long Ago
• (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!

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En Français
Ere primaire  (570 millions à 235 millions
d'années)
Ere secondaire (245 millions à 65 millions
d'années)
Précambrien (lt 570 millions d'années)
La vie se développe dans l'eau bactéries,
algues puis animaux au corps mous (éponge, vers
..)
coquillage, animaux invertébrés  à carapace  (570
M.A.) puis règne des poissons cuirassés  (550
M.A) puis règne des grands amphibiens (340 M.A.)
Règne des dinosaures
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Resources

• Photocopiable resource books
• www.link2english.com
• Non-fiction readers and reference books
• Internet (on-line activities and photocopiable
  material)
• ELT Coursebooks and resources
• MORE INFORMATION IN FORMATO DIGITAL

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Thank you for coming!! Merci beaucoup! Good
luck and happy teaching!