CLIL

Before that class we have never heard about CLIL, we don’t know anything about it. But when we read about different real projects, we understand better the idea. One of the projects is from Cataluña and the other is from Zerain, that isn’t officially a CLIL project but it has a lot of same characteristics. So, here are some interest elements and ideas from the readings that are useful to our final project.

 

CLIL

• CLIL: contents learning and language learning, both integrated.
• They learn contents in English, not just learn language. 
•     Focused on communication.
• It doesn´t exist the best method, because each method has to be adapted to each situation, school, class, children and etc.
• The context is very important; we create the method from the context, so we can´t use the same method to all context. We have to see what I have (children, school, resources) and then I create the project.
• It must be centered on students. 

 

INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

• They work one topic in all the subjects.
• English is used to learn other subjects.One of the objectives of this project is to improve the communicative competence of students, especially referring to oral skills.
• When children answer in their mother tongue, teachers have to answer always in English, so students can repeat it.
• In oral activities, always try to use the same grammatical structure.
• The visual support is very important in this stage. Extra elements; like films, photographs, illustrations etc.
• The body language is very important too. 

UXUE JAIO DA!

• The activities depend on the children real context.
• They don´t use books.
• They have a very close relation with families so they work with them.
• Children of different ages were together in the same class.
• It is important to focus on the children interests and worrying, like this the students results and behavior are better.