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CLIL | This book gives a comprehensive overview of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). | Do Coyle, Philip Hood, David Marsh

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A kétnyelvűség előny vagy sem? (Jávor Rebeka)

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Ma a világon már a kétnyelvűség normája van jelen, ami különböző csatornákon keresztül lehetővé teszi a több nyelvet beszélő, vegyes családok kialakulását is. Ezekben a családokban azonban még ma is igen nagy fejtörést okoz az a kérdés, hogy hogyan, milyen nyelvi közegben neveljék gyermekeiket. Kérdéseik vannak, és válaszokat akarnak. A kétnyelvű gyermekek nevelésről megoszlanak a vélemények, viszont a korai kétnyelvűség bírálata és a hozzá való negatív hozzáállás gyakran mítoszokon és félreértelmezéseken alapul, nem pedig tudományos eredményeken. Ennek ellenére azonban, ahogy Kovács Ágnes Melinda (2014, 558) is írja: "...a negatív következményektől való félelem mindig is erősebb lesz a pozitív tapasztalatoknál, és valószínűleg számos pozitív kutatási eredményre lesz szükség ahhoz, hogy elfeledtesse a néhány létező negatív vagy kétértelmű eredményt." Ezért itt arra törekszünk, hogy a gyermekkori kétnyelvűséggel kapcsolatos kétnyelvűséggel kapcsolatos képet a tudományos gondolkodás követelményeinek megfelelően kiegyensúlyozottabbá tegyük.

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Facing bilingual education: kindergarten teachers’ attitudes, strategies and challenges

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This article examines how majority-language teachers coping with additive education view their roles in a bilingual framework, how they perceive issues of culture and language in young bilingual c…

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A kéttannyelvű oktatás hazai megvalósítása és fenntartás

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The Bilingual Kindergarten Program in a nutshell The Bilingual Kindergarten Program fosters an environment where children acquire English naturally and joyfully, while our partner institutions provide the high standard of Hungarian kindergarten educationBy immersing children in the English language through play, routine activities, and cultural experiences, the Bilingual Program allows for organic language development at […]

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CLIL stands for content and language integrated learning. It consists in teaching a subject through the medium of a language other than the school language. In CLIL classes learners gain knowledge of the subject while simultaneously using and learning the foreign language. It is important to notice that CONTENT is the first word in CLIL. However, CLIL subject teachers also need to help learners with language, make learners notice it and then use it.

This is where "CLIL ACTIVITIES" come in. Experienced CLIL teachers have come up with 36 activities which help knowledge acquisition and give language support. They are our learners' favourites and easy to carry out. We hope you and your classes will enjoy them!

Carmen Steiner, Dagmar Morandell, and Rosmarie de Monte Frick

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Experienced CLIL teachers have come up with 36 activities which help knowledge acquisition and give language support.

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Early bilingualism, language transfer, and phonological awareness

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Early bilingualism, language transfer, and phonological awareness - Volume 28 Issue 3

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A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

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The good news about formulating a strong lesson plan for a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) class is that it will contain many of the same features of a good lesson plan for any class. That is, it will include transitions from and to the previous class and the next one, it will warm students up to the day's lesson in an engaging way, it will present new material and recycle familiar material, it will include some ways to assess progress during the class, and it will be flexible enough to account for classes that move slower or more quickly than you had anticipated.

What's important about CLIL lesson plans, though, is that you take care to include both subject area content and language points so that you derive the full benefits of a CLIL approach. If you try to wing it, you might wind up concentrating on one area to the detriment of the other. Over time, you'll develop your own CLIL lesson plan template, but if you need some inspiration, check out the CLIL lesson plan examples below!
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What are the key elements of CLIL lesson plans?

Content

Most teachers find it easiest to start by considering the content. What knowledge - that is, what subject area material - do you want to transmit? How are you going to present it - through an article, a video, a demonstration, a discussion, an experiment?

It can be helpful when planning to finish sentences such as I want my students to be able to/At the end of the class, they should know... If you have a cooperating content area teacher at your institution, meet with that person in advance to go over your goals and see how they interact with theirs.
Want to learn more? Take a look at the following video, from the Bridge Specialized Certification course in CLIL to see what CLIL is all about:
Language

Once you have the content pinned down, you can pick out the necessary language and communication skills that students will need to engage with the material. For example, these could include:

Specialized vocabulary

Functional phrases and collocations

Pronunciation or intonation practice

Grammatical structures

Features of text organization

You'll find these linguistic features in the texts that you present, but also in the language that students need in order to complete tasks. Imagine yourself as a student carrying out a task. What will you say? What will you write? Then, determine if you'll need to teach any of this language to your class before presenting students with the task.

For example, imagine that you want students to be able to explain how a lever works. You plan to provide a demonstration or a video of a lever being used, and you will ask students to write a few paragraphs about what they see. For vocabulary, they might need to know words like machine, beam, lever, fulcrum or pivot point, effort, resistance, mass, distance, and so on. For grammar, they might need simple conditionals and cause/effect statements, and, of course, expressions of measurement: If you double the distance on one side of the lever, it takes half as much mass to balance./When you double the distance on one side of the lever, you need half as much mass to balance.

As you determine the content and the language, make sure you have a reasonable balance of both - enough content to keep learners engaged and enough language for them to engage with the content.

If you are cooperating with a content teacher, make sure you also share the language that you are teaching. The cooperating teacher will then know what they should expect learners to be able to communicate in their class. They might have ideas for useful language that you did not think of!
Take a look at the following infographic, from the Bridge Specialized Certification in CLIL course, to see a summary of the advantages of using a bilingual education method like CLIL:
What are some tips for CLIL lesson planning?

Connect what CLIL activities students are doing today with what they have done before. Remember, our earlier experiment with putting sugar in the flowers' water? Well, today we're going to add salt and see what happens.

Connect your class to other classes. I know in your art history class you just saw a film about the Egyptian pyramids. Today, we're going to make and label posters that show what's inside a pyramid.

Have some extra content information in reserve. You are the language teacher and are not expected to be a content area specialist. However, you will earn your students' respect if you occasionally demonstrate content knowledge beyond the exact classroom task. Do a little research online, and perhaps learn an interesting fact or two about a famous explorer, a story about a scientific discovery, or a current example of social science theory. You might not find the right situations to bring up this information in every class, but you'll be ready if the opportunity arises.

Be able to explain the importance of the target content. It's natural for students to wonder why they are being asked to learn certain information. However, they may hesitate to ask a content teacher a question like Why are we studying ancient Greek architecture? Who cares what the Parthenon looked like originally? Since you are the language teacher, students may feel safer (and more polite) directing those kinds of questions to you. Be ready with an answer! What does the content in your CLIL curriculum have to do with real life? Before your class, ask yourself Why is this important? Why is this interesting? Make sure you have good answers. If you don't have answers, ask a content area specialist or do a short online query to prepare yourself.

Check out the following clip, from a BridgeUniverse Expert Series webinar, in which speakers discuss how CLIL is the future of education:
What is a CLIL lesson plan for kids?

Lesson: Density

Target content: Understanding what density means and how it can be demonstrated

Target language: Sequencing words (first, next, then); vocabulary (nouns: oil, water, food coloring; verbs: put, add, sink, float, rise, fall; adjectives: heavy, light, dense); grammar (comparatives: heavier/lighter/denser than)

Exposition: Demonstration of density through an experiment. Students will predict, observe, and report.
Procedure:

1. Show students a tank of water and several objects, such as a stone, a feather, a scrap of paper, a coin, a piece of Styrofoam, oil, food coloring.

2. Ask students if objects will float or sink in the water and why (to elicit It is heavy/light, It is heavier/lighter than water).

3. Define density (density = mass/volume). Ask students which objects they think are the densest and the least dense.

4. Ask students which objects they think are denser than water and which are less dense than water. Encourage them to use the correct comparatives: I think oil is less dense than water. I think a stone is denser than water. To reinforce the language, have them speak in pairs and then write their guesses down. Ask them how they can test their theories.

5. Drop the different objects and substances in the water and have students describe what they see. The oil is sinking to the bottom! Oil is denser than water.

6. Have students write a paragraph about which substances are denser and which are less dense than water. They can use sequencing words to describe the experiment. First, Ms. Kim put a stone in the water. The stone sank to the bottom. This means that the stone is denser than water. Next, she...

Follow-up/application
Ask students, "Why is understanding density important?" If students are stuck or lacking ideas, ask, "How do we know if a boat will float or sink?"
Want to see a CLIL lesson plan in action? The following video, from the Bridge Specialized Certification course in CLIL, demonstrates how a CLIL lesson with young learners might look in the classroom:
What is a CLIL lesson plan for teens or adults?

Lesson: The Sun

Target content: The nature and composition of the sun

Target language: Names of elements (i.e., aluminum, carbon, copper, helium, hydrogen, iron, etc; include elements related to the sun and some distractors); vocabulary related to energy (atomic, electricity, energy, fusion, gas, heat, light, nuclear, sunlight, temperature)

Exposition: Explanation of the composition of the sun and how it shines through a song. Presentation and discussion of how and why scientific theories change over time with new information. Students will predict, learn, and practice content vocabulary, listen and check, discuss, and assess one another.
Procedure:

1. Show students a photo of the sun. Ask "What is this? What is it made of? What does it produce?" Accept all answers, even in students' native language (L1).

2. Present the target vocabulary on index cards spread on a table. You could define, classify, discuss, etc.

3. From YouTube, play the song, "Why Does the Sun Shine?" (Tom Glazer). Divide students into two teams, one on each side of the table. As students listen, they grab the appropriate index card when they hear the word.

4. At the end of the song, the teams exchange the words they grabbed. Have students take turns reading the words aloud, and go over any pronunciation or questions about meaning.

5. Play the song again, and have students return each card to the table when they hear the word sung. This reinforces listening comprehension and recognition. (Note that the same song has been covered by the group They Might Be Giants, so on the second listening, you could use a new version of the song.)

6. Pass out a sheet of gapped song lyrics - you could gap certain STEM words, rhyming words, or linguistically significant words (such as past participles or auxiliaries), or even create two different worksheets and put students in pairs to listen for different language and then compare with one another to check answers.

7. For extra credit, let students (alone or in pairs) memorize and perform the song.

8. Tell students, "This song was believed to be correct when it was recorded in the late 1950s. However, it contains one piece of information we now know to be incorrect. What do you think it is?" Let students guess and discuss.

9. Explain the meaning of "retraction." Then, say that the band They Might Be Giants, who recorded a cover of the "Why Does the Sun Shine?" song, later recorded a retraction song when they learned about a scientific update.

10. Play the song "Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma)", and let students follow the lyrics on a printed sheet.

Follow-up/application

1. Conclude with a discussion of why and how scientific information gets updated and why retractions are important. Offer some useful sentence frames, such as "People used to think X, but now we know Y."

2. Have students work in groups to write quiz questions based on factual information about the sun. Circulate to help with language as necessary. Groups can exchange quiz questions in a subsequent class, or you can collect them, collate the questions, and distribute one quiz to the whole class in a future session.

The big picture

In conclusion, remember that the most important parts of a content lesson and a language lesson actually dovetail. They address the questions, "Why is this information important?" and "How can I talk about it?" Effective CLIL lesson plans focus on fostering learners' curiosity and interest while giving them the tools to share, question, and apply information to their lives.
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Underlying principles
The principles behind Content and Language Integrated Learning include global statements such as 'all teachers are teachers of language' (The Bullock Report - A Language for Life, 1975) to the wide-ranging advantages of cross-curricular bilingual teaching in statements from the Content and Language Integrated Project (CLIP). The benefits of CLIL may be seen in terms of cultural awareness, internationalisation, language competence, preparation for both study and working life, and increased motivation.

While CLIL may be the best-fit methodology for language teaching and learning in a multilingual Europe, the literature suggests that there remains a dearth of CLIL-type materials, and a lack of teacher training programmes to prepare both language and subject teachers for CLIL teaching. The theory may be solid, but questions remain about how theory translates into classroom practice.

Classroom principles
Some of the basic principles of CLIL are that in the CLIL classroom:

Language is used to learn as well as to communicate

It is the subject matter which determines the language needed to learn.

Content - Progression in knowledge, skills and understanding related to specific elements of a defined curriculum

Communication - Using language to learn whilst learning to use language

Listening is a normal input activity, vital for language learning

Reading, using meaningful material, is the major source of input

Integrate language and skills, and receptive and productive skills

Lessons are often based on reading or listening texts / passages

The language focus in a lesson does not consider structural grading

Listen and label a diagram/picture/map/graph/chart

Listen and fill in a table

Question loops - questions and answers, terms and definitions, halves of sentences

Information gap activities with a question sheet to support

Trivia search - 'things you know' and 'things you want to know'
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Class surveys using questionnaires

20 Questions - provide language support frame for questions

Students present information from a visual using a language support handout.

Listen and make notes on specific information (dates, figures, times)

Listen and reorder information

Listen and identify location/speakers/places

Listen and label the stages of a process/instructions/sequences of a text

Listen and fill in the gaps in a text

Language is functional and dictated by the context of the subject

Language is approached lexically rather than grammatically

Learner styles are taken into account in task types.

Speaking focuses on fluency. Accuracy is seen as subordinate

Writing is a series of lexical activities through which grammar is recycled.

Cognition - Developing thinking skills which link concept formation (abstract and concrete), understanding and language

Culture - Exposure to alternative perspectives and shared understandings, which deepen awareness of otherness and self.

A CLIL lesson is therefore not a language lesson neither is it a subject lesson transmitted in a foreign language. According to the 4Cs curriculum (Coyle 1999), a successful CLIL lesson should combine elements of the following:

In a CLIL lesson, all four language skills should be combined. The skills are seen thus:

For teachers from an ELT background, CLIL lessons exhibit the following characteristics:

In many ways, then, a CLIL lesson is similar to an ELT integrated skills lesson, except that it includes exploration of language, is delivered by a teacher versed in CLIL methodology and is based on material directly related to a content-based subject. Both content and language are explored in a CLIL lesson. A CLIL 'approach' is not far removed from humanistic, communicative and lexical approaches in ELT, and aims to guide language
processing and supports language production in the same way that an ELT course would by teaching techniques for exploiting reading or listening texts and structures for supporting spoken or written language.

Lesson framework
A CLIL lesson looks at content and language in equal measure, and often follows a four-stage framework.

Processing the text
The best texts are those accompanied by illustrations so that learners can visualise what they are reading. When working in a foreign language, learners need structural markers in texts to help them find their way
through the content. These markers may be linguistic (headings, sub-headings) and/or diagrammatic. Once a 'core knowledge' has been identified, the organisation of the text can be analysed.

Identification and organisation of knowledge
Texts are often represented diagrammatically. These structures are known as 'ideational frameworks' or 'diagrams of thinking', and are used to help learners categorise the ideas and information in a text. Diagram types include tree diagrams for classification, groups, hierarchies, flow diagrams and timelines for sequenced thinking such as instructions and historical information, tabular diagrams describing people and places, and combinations of these. The structure of the text is used to facilitate learning and the creation of activities which focus on both language development and core content knowledge.

Language identification
Learners are expected to be able to reproduce the core of the text in their own words. Since learners will need to use both simple and more complex language, there is no grading of language involved, but it is a good idea for the teacher to highlight useful language in the text and to categorise it according to function. Learners may need the language of comparison and contrast, location or describing a process, but may also need certain discourse markers, adverb phrases or prepositional phrases. Collocations, semi-fixed expressions and set phrases may also be given attention as well as subject-specific and academic vocabulary.

Tasks for students
There is little difference in task-type between a CLIL lesson and a skills-based ELT lesson. A variety of tasks should be provided, taking into account the learning purpose and learner styles and preferences. Receptive skill activities are of the 'read/listen and do' genre. A menu of listening activities might be:

Tasks designed for production need to be subject-orientated, so that both content and language are recycled. Since content is to be focused on, more language support than usual in an ELT lesson may be required.
Typical speaking activities include:

Conclusion
From a language point of view the CLIL 'approach' contains nothing new to the EL teacher. CLIL aims to guide language processing and 'support language production in the same way as ELT by teaching strategies for
reading and listening and structures and lexis for spoken or written language. What is different is that the language teacher is also the subject teacher, or that the subject teacher is also able to exploit opportunities for
developing language skills. This is the essence of the CLIL teacher training issue.

Further reading
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching - www.factworld.info/
Comenius Project TL2L - www.tl2l.nl/
European Centre for Modern Languages - www.ecml.at/
Norwich Institute for Language Education - www.nile-elt.com
Science Across the Curriculum - www.scienceacross.org
EuroCLIC - www.euroclic.org
The National Centre for Languages (CILT) - www.cilt.org.uk
Content and Language Integrated Project (CLIP) - www.cilt.org.uk/clip/

Steve Darn, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey

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Gyerekdal - Számoló dal magyarul és angolul (Totyizselé)

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The Alphabet Song | Learn The ABCs | Finny The Shark

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Navigáció átugrása

english rhymes for children's

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Hickory Dickory Dock

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Hickory Dickory Dock | CoComelon Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs

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Sing the alphabet song, and listen closely for the claps so you can clap along! This is a great way to test your ABC skills!

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Rain, Rain, Go Away Nursery Rhyme With Lyrics - Cartoon Animation Rhymes & Songs for Children

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The benefits of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli

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The AMAZING scientific benefits of being bilingual

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Review the words playground, slide, monkey bars, sandbox, swings, and seesaw while counting to ten and singing "Hide and Seek" with Noodle & Pals!

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Sing and dance along to this happy farm song that reviews different types of farm animals and the sounds they make! 🧑‍🌾

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I created this worksheet for clil lesson about mammals (I teach also Science),it’s a reading comprehension and it’s useful to revise adjectives, body parts, can/can’t, I hope you like it!

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I created this worksheet for my English and Science CLIL lessons, there are different activities, I hope you like it ! PS my pupils love animals!

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I created this worksheet to present the topic "seasons". The first is Autumn. There are some ideas for teachers but youcan add everything you prefer. There are also two funny activities: the first to improve the languge and the second is an easy maze. I hope it can be useful!

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This crossword puzzle is good for practising basic environment vocabulary. The key is included.

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5 ideas for engaging CLIL activities in class - CLIL Media

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Want to implement CLIL activities in your lesson, without any preparation time? These five activities might just be what you are looking for!

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If you're familiar with Content and Language Integrated Learning, you know that it's possible that math, history or art lessons can help your students learn another language. This methodology uses academic subjects outside of foreign language education as a vehicle to teach grammar and vocabulary.

With CLIL activities and games, you can employ this framework in your class on a short-term basis, engaging your students' outside interests and boosting their proficiency. Let's look more closely at how CLIL works and what activities you can use in your own classroom.

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What is CLIL?

CLIL is built on a simple premise: Teach subjects to students in a foreign language. For example, with students who are learning Japanese, you could teach art, math, geography, history or any other subject entirely in Japanese.

In this framework, comprehension is more important than memorization, and communication is more important than precise grammatical accuracy. CLIL provides a space for students to communicate naturally in the target language, picking up vocabulary in context and learning how to express their own, original ideas.

CLIL was coined in 1994, though many of its underlying principles had already been in use for years. This type of language education dovetails with bilingual teaching and shares many principles in common with language immersion programs.

For a walk-through of the CLIL framework in general, you can check out this guide. If you're already familiar with it, here are nine fun CLIL activities that'll liven up your class:

1. Describe and Draw

The main objective of this activity is to spark active listening in the target language. You'll be giving your students instructions for creating a piece of artwork without showing them what the final image is supposed to look like. This activity can easily be adapted to classes of any proficiency level.
You'll need:
Colored pencils, erasers and papers or easels for all the students

An image of an artwork that's big enough to display in front of your class

A list of instructions for how to recreate this image, which you'll read one by one

Your instructions about the artwork can be as loose or as specific as you want. Surreal imagery works particularly well because it's harder for students to predict, so they'll have to listen attentively to the target language instructions.

Instructions:

Let's say you've chosen René Magritte's "The Son of Man":

Describe the artwork to your students so they can draw it. For example:
1. Draw the outline of a man from his knees up, putting his shoulders at the canvas' center.

2. Put a beige brick wall behind him. Color the rest of the background blue for the sea up to his elbow, and gray with clouds for the sky above that.

3. Put him in a buttoned black jacket over a white shirt with a red tie and a hat.

4. Draw a green apple floating in front of his face.

Once your students are done, have them compare drawings-this will usually get lots of laughter.

Display the original image and discuss how your students interpreted your instructions.

Make sure to go over any instructions they didn't fully understand. Instead of offering translations, talk in the target language and draw or demonstrate what you're saying.

You'll need:
A list of questions and answers (Alex Trebek's Jeopardy board has 30; you can adapt the number based on the size of your class)

A Jeopardy board to display at the front of the class (some board-making tools are available online, such as Jeopardy Labs and Jeopardy Rocks)
Instructions:
2. Jeopardy

If you need a refresher for this classic trivia game, check out this post for some basics of playing and things to consider. In the CLIL framework, Jeopardy can be geared toward a specific subject such as history, literature or science, with questions and answers all delivered in the target language.

From a CLIL standpoint, Jeopardy is useful because it can be adapted over and over to different topics. You can create a Jeopardy game about food one week and politics the next (though this also means preparing multiple sets of questions and answers). You may find that it's easiest to work on the board little by little over the course of a unit, or use it to close out that unit or warm up before a test.
What you'll need:
Printed bingo boards for every student in your class

Game pieces or chips for students to mark their boards

A bingo cage or a pad and pencil to keep track of numbers you've called out

Instructions:

The "what is" answer/question structure that Jeopardy is famous for can be needlessly confusing for foreign language learners, so stick with the regular question format instead. Prepare different categories for the questions and assign each question a certain number of points.

To make sure everyone gets a fair shot at the questions, you can give each team only one question per turn, even if they were correct. Students have to answer the question in the target language.

If the team answers correctly, they gain the corresponding number of points. But if they answer incorrectly, other teams can step in and answer the question to win the points.

The team with the most points at the end wins.

3. Math Bingo

This CLIL math game will get students thinking, counting and calculating in the target language.
You'll need:
A stack of magazines, print-outs, posters or any other material in the target language that can be cut up for a collage

Examples of your chosen art genre/period to display for the class
Instructions:
Scissors, glue/tape and poster board for students

Instead of putting numerical values on the board, you'll be using math problems. The first row of a board might read 8/2, 3+3, 2×7, 10-5, 4+3 instead of 4, 6, 14, 5, 7. However, you'll still be calling out simple numerical values; this requires your students to do mental math in the target language.

Prepare the bingo boards, with rows and columns having math problems instead. Here's a free online resource that will automatically create a large, randomized batch for you. The simplest way to create a math-based board is to choose a number range-say, 0 to 30-and then type in a string of problems that equate to numbers between 0 and 30.

To adapt this game to middle school and high school students, you can throw in more complex math concepts, like squares or longer multiplication and division. Don't be afraid to ask your colleagues down the hall what math concepts you might want to include on your bingo board!

Distribute the bingo boards to the student.

Call out a number in the target language. Students will look for the math problem on their board that matches the number, then place a chip on it or mark it.

Keep calling out numbers until someone gets a complete row or column. They can then shout out, "Bingo!"

After the first game or two, your students should become as comfortable with this version of bingo as they are with the original.

4. Themed Collages

This is a fun activity to teach any age range about different styles, genres and periods of art in the target language. It also requires engagement with authentic materials.

This activity can be done individually or in groups, and it works for different age ranges. Students will be cutting up magazines or other materials to create collages that imitate a particular type of visual art. For a crash course on different art movements, you can look at The Art Story.
You'll need:
Printed road maps of a city or neighborhood

Printed driving instructions that you have written in the target language to get from point A to point B
Instructions:
Let's say you're teaching pop art to your class of language students:

Start by projecting images of work by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann and other big names in the genre.

Ask your students what these artworks share; even the youngest students should pick up on the fact that they all use bright colors, eye-popping visuals and sharp lines. The older your students, the more advanced of a discussion you can lead.

Get crafty. Give your students at least 20 minutes to put together their pop art-inspired collages. These should include the basic characteristics that came up during your lesson.

Wrap up for 5 to 10 minutes by asking your students to jot down the features of their collage and how they relate to the art movement you're studying.

Let your students hand in their work.

5. The Amazing Map Race
You'll need:
Target language sentences, expressions or questions printed out and cut out

Some "stage" space in the front of your classroom with a table
Instructions:

This is a CLIL geography game that requires reading in the target language. The gist: Students follow your printed instructions to get from point A to point B on a map as quickly as possible.
You'll Need:

Two true statements and one false statement prepared by each student

A board or pen and paper to keep track of points

Technically, this game can be played with a map of any location, but if you focus on an area where the target language is spoken, you get the benefit of familiarizing your students with an area they may ultimately want to visit as they strive for fluency. Moon Travel Guides has existing maps of select areas, while ViaMichelin lets you print road maps.
Instructions:

Let's say we're playing this game with English language learners, racing from Grand Central Station to Times Square in New York City. Your printed instructions might look something like this:
1. Drive straight on W 43rd Street for five blocks.

2. Turn right on 8th Ave and drive straight for three blocks.

3. Turn right on 46th Street and drive straight for one block.

4. Arrive.

Depending on your students' proficiency levels, you'll likely want to choose a more complicated route. To tie this game more tightly to geography concepts, you can use cardinal directions instead of "left" and "right," and reference local landmarks in your directions instead of just street names.

Students will use a red pen to "drive" along their map following your instructions. The first to hit point B with the correct path is the winner.

Your role during the game is to answer questions. For example, with the instructions above, you might have to explain in English what a "block" is.

You can put a fun twist on this game if your classroom has access to a computer lab. Instead of a pen and map, your students can use Google Street View to mimic the act of driving. They get a virtual on-the-ground exploration of a target language region, and it feels more like a real race, which can be exciting and motivating.

If applicable, you can also use this game to teach about the places where your target language is spoken and certain countries' colonialist histories.

6. What's My Line?

Here's one for the performers and creative thinkers in your class. What's My Line is a theater-based game that requires reading a target language script and listening to direction to act it out.

What you're ultimately looking for here is active listening, good pronunciation from your performers and engagement with new vocabulary. Your students will be saying lines out loud, and then their classmates will tell them what emotion to use when delivering the lines.

Prepare target language sentences. These can be fairly straightforward-the idea is that the audience's cues will make them interesting or even silly. Sentences like "the car is almost out of gas" read in an "overjoyed" tone of voice can get students listening and laughing.

Before you begin this game, take some time to talk in the target language with your class about different emotions an actor might need to portray. Go beyond the easier options like "happy" and "sad" and focus on more specific emotions, such as feeling proud, indifferent, awkward, or disappointed.

Since you'll likely be teaching a lot of new vocabulary here, write down all the emotions mentioned on your board.

Put the cut-out sentences into the sandwich bag and onto the table. Students who volunteer as performers will pick the sentences out of the bag to read in the style dictated by the class.

You can either pick individual students to briefly act as "director" and tell the performer what style to act in, or if your class is mature enough, have them call out directions at will from the audience. They should be pulling from your earlier conversation, referring to the emotions listed on the board.

To keep the game fast-paced, have each performer do three to five lines in a row before leaving the stage.

You'll need:
A projector, display board or some other way for students to show the class the piece of artwork that they're presenting

A list of specific points that you want your students to address in their presentations
Instructions:
7. Two Truths and a Lie: History Edition

Two Truths and a Lie is a classic icebreaker game that many foreign language teachers may have already used. This version allows you to teach history through the target language in a fun and informal setting.

With this game, you've got students speaking and actively listening in the target language, while becoming more knowledgeable about the history of the culture they're studying. Unlike the original Two Truths and a Lie, you can also play this game in a team setting.
You'll need:

A projector, display board or some other way for students to show the class examples of artwork that their artist created

Paper and pencils or chalkboard/whiteboard space

Flashcards with conversation-starter questions
Instructions:

Each student speaks briefly (5 to 10 minutes) to the class about the artist they chose. They should discuss what type of work the artist makes (painting, photography, film, etc.), as well as their basic biographical information and the major themes of their work. Students can also discuss their own costume choices.

After the presentations, push all of the desks to the edges of your classroom and bring in some easels or free up chalkboard space for your students to draw together.

Tell students that they can free write, free draw or interact with one another in the personas of their chosen artists. A Spanish language student who has adopted Salvador Dali might spend this time talking about surrealism with a student who has adopted Joan Miró.

Bring in conversation flashcards with pre-written questions for students to ask one another as a jumping-off point. These can range from simple biographical questions ("Where are you from?" or "What art period were you part of?") to more complex ones ("How would I recognize your artwork in a museum?"), depending on your class.

At the end of your class time, give students 5 to 15 minutes to jot down some of their experiences during this activity. They can also hand in any individual or collaborative writing or drawing they did during flex time.

For big classes, you can stretch out the three phases across three separate class periods.

Have students come up with their truths and lies as homework. (You can assign different events or historical figures to your students to ensure that the game covers a diverse range of topics.) For example:
1. Benjamin Franklin designed the first American penny

2. Benjamin Franklin was an avid butterfly collector

3. As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin wrote fake letters under the name Mrs. Silence Dogood for his brother's newspaper

The second Benjamin Franklin "fact" is the lie.

One student recites three "facts" about a historical event or figure from the target language culture. Two are true and one is made up.

The other students write down the "fact" that they believe is actually a lie.

Everyone who was right gets a point; the student with the most points at the end of the game wins.

Keep track of repeated grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation errors and alert students to them at the end of the game to avoid interrupting the game flow.

8. Artwork Presentations

These presentations are intended to promote speaking and reading in the target language. The concept is straightforward: Students present a piece of artwork to the rest of the class. Still, there are certain elements to keep in mind so you can make the most out of these presentations as a CLIL activity.

To keep this activity in line with CLIL, let students decide on which artist to present. This will get them more motivated, and they'll have to think critically and creatively. Make sure that you've taught enough grammar and vocabulary to give students a solid foundation for engaging with the artwork.

Be clear with your students about the learning objectives for this activity. Explain that these artwork presentations should include specific details, such as biographical information about the artist and major artistic themes and philosophies, all in the target language.

Give your students free rein to choose any artist from the target language culture that they want.

If you're teaching a beginner class, ask your students to provide a handout after their presentation with summary questions. For more advanced classes, tell your students they'll also debate the quality of paintings they've presented on.

Students can then proceed with their presentations.

9. Adopt an Artist

This activity builds on the artist presentation, and works especially well with younger students who may be less inhibited to perform in front of others. However, this activity requires artist research, so you should assess how much you'll need to guide your students, based on their age and level. Students choose an individual artist to focus on-in this case, to "adopt."

For a set period of time (such as one class period) your students will dress like their chosen artist, share that artist's interests and speak about that artist's work. There are three phases to this activity: presentation, flex time and analysis.

With these CLIL activities, you'll be able to spark a range of student interests while encouraging target language communication.

Another way to help students learn their target language through their interests would be to show them native media in their target language, such as songs and popular online videos. FluentU makes this more approachable for language learners because its library of videos comes with interactive subtitles, vocabulary lists and quizzes.

Your students will be picking up new language skills without even realizing it, while also becoming more knowledgeable about the different topics your activities cover.

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