Practical Activities for CLIL
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Practical Activities Practical Activities for CLIL for CLIL Nina Lauder Nina Lauder Seville – February 2007 Seville – February 2007
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Practical Activities for CLIL. Nina Lauder Seville – February 2007. Outline for Today’s Session. Warm up Oral activities in class Practical activities Evaluation and feedback. Why use oral activities in class?. They encourage learning a language in a natural, real context. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Practical Activities for CLIL Nina Lauder Seville February 2007
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Outline for Todays Session Warm up
Oral activities in class Practical activities
Evaluation and feedback
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Why use oral activities in class? They encourage learning a language in a natural, real context. They encourage students to predict meaning and get the gist of what is being said. They increase the students exposure to EnglishThey provide a meaningful purpose to English.They give students a chance to improve their listening skillsThey are motivating and educational. They tie in with the Common European Framework which makes an emphasis on developing communication skills.
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Possible drawbacksWhat 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
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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 lifeUnscramble 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?
ABC- 3 64553
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Whats missing? Study the pictures for 15 seconds *NO PENS*
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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 DataLook at your Dino Info Card
Ask questions to other dinosaurs
DINO INFO CARDName: Tyrannosaurus rexSize: 12.4 metres long, 5 6 metres tallHabitat: 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 QuestionsWhats 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 ChartPupils fill in a chart when asking questions: THIS INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED ON THE WEBPAGE
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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
DINOSAURSMaths Graphs Geography
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Cross-Curricular Connections
DINOSAURSMaths -Graphs -MeasurementsGeographyPhysical Education-where dinosaurs lived-map work-climate-how animals move-healthy diets/habitsArt -make model dinos-make puppets-dino mural History-time lines -life spans Science-bones, muscles-fossils Technology-tools for discovering dinos-on-line quizzes
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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
INFORMATION ON SPECIFIC TITLES AND WEBLINKS ON WEBPAGE
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Thank you for coming!!
Good luck and happy teaching!
