Implementing my clil experience

IMPLEMENTING MY IMPLEMENTING MY CLIL EXPERIENCECLIL EXPERIENCE

ROSA GALÁN

JANUARY 2014

INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTIONThis is my first experience implementing a CLIL session, but I am sure it won’t be the last one.

Our Management Team is getting more and more involved into this change of philosophy, so English teachers hope it will be a realty shortly

LESSON PLANLESSON PLANTitle of the Lesson: Measures Level and group: 6th Primary ICT resources: www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/maths

Background Information: Their tutor taught them this topic in the previous year, so they are familiarize to the vocabulary in Catalan and the content is not new for them. But I want to introduce them also to the Speed concept, and that's a new content.

Learning objectives:•To review metric units of length and to know them in English.•To reflect about suitable units to measure everyday objects or places.•Review Scales and get introduced to new vocabulary in English as “speedometer”•Review converting units, for area and volume, and comparatives in English when talking about “larger, smaller”•Practice the concept and the vocabulary of “multiple and divide”•Introduce them to the formulas :in this case “Speed, distance and time”

• Competencies involved: Mathematics, communicative, autonomy, learn to learn

• Assessment: Teacher observe the whole process of learning: the previous knowledge, the construction of new concepts and English structures and vocabulary, the team work, the decisions and the planning of their poster, power point or prezi and finally the presentation and defense of their final job.

• DescriptionTeacher print the information of the website, divided into 5

topics: choosing appropriate units, reading scales, converting units, converting units for area and volume, and speed, distance and time. Students are grouped into 5 teams. Teacher give them the information and help to understand the concepts and the vocabulary in English.

Students have to prepare a lesson about the topic to present to the rest of the class, with the help of a poster, a power point or a prezi. Pupils know already these tools.

• InteractionTeacher - StudentsStudents – Students

• Skills: Listening, Writing, Speaking, Reading and Interacting

• Materials Printed informationPosterPC to do the Power Point or the Prezi

• Bloom's Taxonomy:CreatingUnderstandingRemembering

FINAL REFLEXIONFINAL REFLEXIONFirstly, I should stress that children were astonished when I proposed them to do a CLIL activity: it was their first time and I have noticed different feelings: surprise, excitement, some fear... Positive points: they start working very quickly, with clear ideas, programming homework of this activity by Skipe, meeting during the weekend or at playground time.

And they defined their final defense with resources as Prezi, using our PDI or with a Power Point, even when I explained that just a manual poster will be enough. Weak points: they are not used to work in groups using English as a communication language, so they talk in Spanish again and againGroups: We had some problems to organize the groups, because of their relationships.

Some picturesSome picturesI have taken some photos to illustrate the development of the collaborative task. This was the first session: in groups of 5 pupils, they read the information, understand and design their defense or their lesson to teach the rest of the classmates next week

Reading the Reading the information and information and

designing the defense designing the defense

Outline to define a Outline to define a PreziPrezi

First reading to First reading to understand the topicunderstand the topic