CLIL lesson plans: areas and objectives
CLIL lesson plans: areas and objectives
CLIL for Children content map for CLIL lessons
CLIL lessons objectives - the 4 Cs principle
CLIL topics by modules
Students
flexible
lower primary/
upper primary
English teacher/
content teacher
big groups/ small groups
Subject area
Science
Geography
Mathematics
Modules
The world of plants
The world of animals
The world around us
The world of numbers
The world of shapes and units
3 Lessons
1st general
2nd specific
3rd project
Objectives
Linguistic: vocab
Linguistic: skills
Linguistic: functions
Content
CLIL for Children content map for CLIL lessons
CONTENT (THROUGH LANGUAGE)
The foreign language is learned through topic content
provided in a way that encourages active natural learning
The focus for language learning is NOT on structure or
grammar, but on language use in real-life contexts (to
solve tasks)
COMMUNICATION
The emphasis is put on effective linguistic learning for
communication and immediate use
Language is used as a medium to perform tasks, solve
problems, develop projects, as well as to express ideas
COGNITION
The foreign language (English) is used as a language for
thinking in parallel with the mother tongue
Using English for thinking enriches understanding of
concepts
CULTURE
Learning a foreign language is learning about cultures that
use that language and contrasting them with one’s own
culture
Using English for communication and thinking is a key
competence to function across multilingual globalised
spaces
CLIL lessons objectives - the 4 Cs principle
• Module information:
Subject area: Geography
Module: The world around us
3 Lessons (90’)
• Lesson topics:
Exploring the Solar system
Travelling around the EU
What’s the weather like today?
Lesson 1: Exploring the Solar system
Language and Communication
Vocabulary: names of the planets of the Solar System, solar system, revolve around the sun, spin, closest, hottest, largest, rings, orbit, coldest, planet, highland, lowland, mountains, waterfall, volcano, river, lake, sea, ocean, highest, deepest, canyon
Skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking
Functions: giving basic information about each planet, extreme geographical features of the world and students’ own countries,
Lesson 1: Exploring the Solar system
• Content : order of planets, concept of planet movement, basic information on each planet, basic information about extreme geographical features
• Culture : understanding the place of man in space, identifying extreme geographical features in ss’ countries
• Cognition : orientation on the map, ordering
The world of animals
Animals at home and in
the jungle
Scales, fur and
feathers
Animals in our care
The world of plants
Physical size of plants
Plant parts and life cycle
The growth of a plant
The world around us
Exploring the Solar system
Travelling around the EU
What’s the weather like
today?
The world of numbers
Metric vs customary
units
Time zones
Venn diagrams
The world of shapes and units
Shapes are fun
Fractions in action
Let’s play, let’s weigh
CLIL topics by modules
Science - the world of plants
• Students recognise selected spieces of flowers,trees and herbs
• Students match UK countries with their symbolflowers
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
• Students name anatomical parts of plants(seed, roots, stem/trunk, leaves, flowers, branches)
• Students understand and describe the life cycle ofa plant
Lesson 3
• Students plant and record growth of a plant
• Students enact Jack and the Beanstalk mini drama
Science - the world of animals
• Students categorise animals
• Students describe what animals eat, where theylive, what they can do
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
• Students name anatomical parts of selectedanimals (tail, wings, fur, etc.)
• Students describe animals
Lesson 6
• Students know how people take care of animals
(e.g. pets, wild animals, forest animals in winter)
• Students prepare projects on selected animals (e.g
posters, descriptions, etc.)
Geography - the world around us
• Students name and point on the map EU countries
• Students match selected EU countries with
characteristic elements (language, flag, capital,symbols, etc.)
Lesson 7
Lesson 8
• Students name selected elements of landscape
and locate them on the map of Europe and theircountries (e.g. river, lake, mountain, etc.)
• Students design a map of the world with extreme
elements of landscapes and present it(e.g. The longest river, the highest mountain)
Lesson 9
• Students describe the phenomena andconsequences of extreme weather conditions
• Students present the water cycle.
Maths - the world of numbers
Lesson 10
• Students read long numbers• Student do equations on large numbers
(3-, 4-digit numbers)
Lesson 11
• Students tell the time on the clock and calculate the
time in different time zones
• Students know the calendar and do text tasks
based on the calendar
Lesson 12
• Students can read coordinates (eg. play battleship,
colour a hidden picture)
• Students understand the notion of inclusive,
exclusive, joined and disjoined sets and ascribe
concrete objects to the sets
Maths - the world of shapes and units
Lesson 13
• Students name selected geometrical instruments
and geometric figures and their space relations.
• Students create tangrams with various figures and
describe their pictures.
Lesson 14
• Students understand the notion of fractions and
use them in text tasks.
• Students understand the idea of percentage and
present data in the form of a graph
Lesson 15
• Students match products with containers and
metric units they are sold in
• Students use money to tell prices and
amounts/numbers of products.
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