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It was actually our second day, because we flew in yesterday and started school on Sunday with a meeting in order to plan our week.

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National college of Ireland, our school. It’s a very modern school, near Liffey river

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National college of Ireland, our school. It’s a very modern school, near Liffey river

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Andrea Scaccabarozzi, Emilio Magni, Davide Mauri, Ilenia Perrotta, Simonetta Rossi

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Our day is very busy, school starts at 9:00 a.m. and lasts until 3:30 p.m.
Today our teacher Gill talked about CLIL theory and communication skills and accomplished many tasks.

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Our teacher Gill, between Simonetta and Emilio 

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Our teacher Gill, between Simonetta and Emilio 

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After school, we enjoyed the walk through the center and visited the Trinity College and the Book of Kelts. It was a full day, but we enjoyed it.

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Long Room

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The topic today was scaffolding, which is a teaching technique that support students’ learning in order to make them autonomous. We were  given many interesting  tasks, such as using specific visual organisers (e.g. T chart, Venn diagramm, quadrants...j. We enjoyed multilingual groups.

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Gill was very good making it interesting giving as an interactive setting. In the afternoon we dealt with speaking frames and we tried to built one of them by talking about qualities of farmers.

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In the late afternoon we went for a photo walk. It was a field activity lead by Stephanie and Eduardo. We had to take pictures in Dublin according to a specific criterion chosen by us, such as infinity, light and shadow.. We don’t tell you our criteria because it is a surprise in our portfolio.

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Our group during field group with Stephanie and Eduardo

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Our group during field group with Stephanie and Eduardo

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It was a long school day, but we survive! In order to get to know Irish civilisation, we finally we went to the oldest pub of Ireland!

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The Brazen head, the oldest pub of Ireland 

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The Brazen head, the oldest pub of Ireland 

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First of all, good news: Emilio is getting better! Today topic is differentiation and planning. Most of the day we practised in groups, applying schemes to “real” CLIL lesson. This was also the beginning of our portfolio that we are supposed to present during the last day.

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In the afternoon we experienced scaffolding first hand: we visited Hugh Lane Gallery, searching for masterpieces and works of art to describe them. There many paintings of different modern artists, such Monet, Pissarro and Bacon. We did this with all our international classmates, whom we are getting to know better. Eventually we got some free time for us!

For dinner a new pub was waiting for: sláinte!

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Edgar Degas - A peasant woman

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Francis Bacon

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Today we concluded the study of planning with CLIL methodology, working on assessment. The course is about be completed.  Now is our turn to work and put in practice what we learned in theory. Most of the day was spent in group works. We will present our project on Saturday morning. It was good to talk to Gill about our doubts and ideas.  She was very helpful.

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Late in the afternoon we attended the farewell event organised by English Matters in the Duke Pub. We drink a pint with the other students of different courses. We enjoyed the company and the atmosphere. We made friends with Austrian, Spanish, Czech and other Italian teachers.

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Gill had some nice activity for us. The aim was to make sure we won't forget her and her teaching, and it was fulfilled for sure. We played games and talked to each other for a while, and we were really feeling like we had been working together for years.

Some serious talked involved suggestions about websites, ICT and apps we can use in CLIL.

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School finished early because we were going to visit Glendalough, a medieval monastery from 9th century in a beautiful natural landscape. Both historians and scientists enjoyed the trip because both architecture and nature were gorgeous. The stories told by John Kennedy, our Irish guide, made the trip funny and interesting.

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Because we were a little worried about the final exam we were about to hold on Saturday, we tried to loosen stress by drinking our last beer and cider in our favourite Irish pub so long, the Celt!

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History group with Simonetta Rossi and Andrea Scaccabarozzi 

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History group with Simonetta Rossi and Andrea Scaccabarozzi 

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Science group with Ilenia Perrotta and Emilio Magni

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Science group with Ilenia Perrotta and Emilio Magni