CLIL teaching tips
Practical advice and ideas from Keith Kelly on using video in class, and from Carol Read on integrating CLIL into the Primary Classroom. This section also features a CLIL factsheet and some useful tips and suggestions for helping students learn and practise vocabulary.
Inside Teaching tips
CLIL - tips 1
Some advantages and disadvantages of teaching CLIL
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Tips on fitting CLIL into the English classroom
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Tips on integrating CLIL into the school English curriculum
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Tips on creating your own CLIL materials
Teaching Tips: Working with words
Author: Keith Kelly
Fantastic tips to help students learn and practise vocabulary
Working with words: Word of the week
Students create a wall space or poster for difficult words or words of particular interest from the unit of work they are studying.
The Many Faces of CLIL
This free factsheet from Uncovering CLIL provides a quick overview of the different educational approaches that come under this umbrella term. Includes background information on language showers and suggested activities.
Tips for using images in CLIL lessons
These tips can be used with any images you have from course books, downloaded from the web, taken from magazines or drawn yourself.
Teaching Tips: Content-based Primary Activities
Author: Carol Read
Excellent activities to help integrate content-based material into the Primary classroom
Content-based primary activity
Integrate content-based learning into your Primary classroom with this excellent activity on saving water.
Using YouTube in CLIL lessons
A simple activity for getting students to use YouTube for CLIL purposes but without the need for any recording in class!
Using Video in the CLIL Classroom
Keith Kelly gives tips on using transcripts with video clips (and adding subtitles to video) as well as a quick step-by-step guide to inserting subtitles into film using Movie Maker.
Teaching tips: Using video in the classroom
Author: Keith Kelly Type: Article
Keith Kelly provides us with some useful tips and practical ideas for using video in the classroom.