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I' M VERY HAPPY TO DISCOVERY A LOT OF TOOLS AND A NEW TEACHING METHODOLOGY!

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I' M VERY HAPPY TO DISCOVERY A LOT OF TOOLS AND A NEW TEACHING METHODOLOGY!

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Extensive Reading!

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What is your idea of Extensive Reading? Have you ever tried it with your students? How? If not, how would you do it? Write a brief paragraph (about 300 words) commenting on your experience (if any) and/or on your "Extensive Reading in CLIL lesson plan" you produced in Week 4 with particular focus on the impact of the language dimension.
Many teachers teach the reading through a reading passage, that it usually is short and the instructions are focused on checking of comprehension, studying the grammar and/or vocabulary, or developing a reading skill.
This type of reading is called Intensive Reading because the learners study the reading and check their comprehension. However, Intensive reading has a lot of limits:
- The reading is difficult, so learners have few chances to build reading speed and fluency.
- The reading is short and because it is difficult, the learners read slowly and they cannot meet a lot of language.
- The whole class reads the same material, which is too easy for some and too difficult for others.
- All the students have to read at the same pace as they do the tasks together.
- The reading is interesting to some learners but not others.
Conversely, the Extensive Reading gives students the chances to read longer texts chosen by students themselves,  the boys  can read at their own speed and at their own ability level. This can be done with Graded readers. Students can build vocabulary and they develop  an awareness of collocations (common word partnerships) and thousands of lexical phrases. Students meet hundreds of grammar patterns. However, textbooks do not provide enough meetings with grammar for real acquisition to occur. Extensive Reading provides opportunities to see grammar in context so learners can deepen their understanding of how grammar is really used. Extensive Reading helps learners to build reading speed and reading fluency. In particular, developing reading speed is important because it helps learners to understand language faster and better. One objective of Extensive Reading is reading for pleasure. This builds confidence and motivation which makes the learner a more effective use of language.
I didn’t know Extensive Reading and I heard about it for the first time in this course. I think it's a great opportunity for students as they have the chance to get closer to the world of reading and develop a love for it. However, at the beginning, I found it very difficult to plan a lesson on Extensive Reading thinking about the discipline that I teach. But then reading the material I realized that it is indifferent matter that is taught having to design an activity aimed not to acquisition of specific skills of mathematics, but of skills that can be spent in all disciplines and especially in everyday life. Precisely for this reason I came up with the idea of offering students the reading of classical texts of fantasy genre, such as Alice in Wonderland, which as everyone knows is a beautiful book of geometric transformations. In this way students can choose the book more in line with their interests but also to approach a subject in many of them irksome as well as passionate about reading.

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EXTENSIVE READING IN CLIL LESSON PLANNER

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EXTENSIVE READING IN CLIL LESSON PLANNER

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WEEK 4 FORUM WEBTOOL FOR READING, WRITING, VOCABULARY

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WEEK 4 FORUM WEBTOOL FOR READING, WRITING, VOCABULARY

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Language Garden is a treasure trove of materials and resources on teaching language literacy. Using Language Garden, students will be able to learn about language plants, read and listen to narrated stories, and compose their own language plants.
- Language plants show phane a language plant, words branch off from each other. They are like little trees, or
plants, made of language
- Language plants show sentences.
- Language plants show different sentences
. We can change the order of words and phrases in a sentence.
- Language plants show word building. It is really useful to show how to    build new words. It increases the number of words a learner knows.
- Language plants show spelling
- Language plants work in all languages

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Mid term!

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Clil path ways!

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Reflect on your Learning Designer Activity, download the grid, complete it and upload it again as a new entry to the database.

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I make the Peer Review activity of lesson planning of Graziella Fava.

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The link is https://v.gd/Fm9ey7

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Surfing the net!

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Write a short paragraph commenting on the potential of technologies for CLIL, also mentioning your experience (if relevant) and possible weaknesses (if any).

The use of technology is an important part of the methodology Clil. New communication technologies have a central role in learning. They contribute to the spread of knowledge by increasing the capacity and quality of knowledge transfer techniques. The language provides access to global knowledge.
In the design of a Clil lesson, the teacher can not avail of  traditional teachings, but should give students  access to information in different ways. It is important to use video, images, texts, diagrams, ... In addition to that students acquire the skills necessary to ensure that it is an active protagonist of his learning. The student must have the ability to speculate, to experiment and to reorganize the various hypotheses in order to get to know. All of this is strongly linked to the use of software that make this effective work for each of them.

I think that we must not talk about clil methodology without thinking about the technology.

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www.prezi.com:  It's an application to make presentation. It is an online presentation tool with zooming presentation editor. Prezi is a service based on a cloud and it gives you a ZUI. I like Prezi very much!

www.popplet.com: It is a simple mind mapping tool. It lets students organize ideas by drowing, writing or importing imagery. It lets students collaborate on the same organizer at the same time and share their work with others.

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Antonio_My favourite webtool for Techno-CLIL 2017

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Brainstorming!!!

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CLIL strengths and weaknesses: write a short paragraph expressing your ideas and opinions, also referring to your experience (if any).
In the last years, it is introduced the Clil lessons in the secondary school. Many teachers are scored because they think to must teach their subject in English Language. At first I also thought that the  MIUR was asking too much to teachers. Than I  realize that the introduction of Clil modules is a great opportunity for teachers and students. The English language is an obstacle only if you don't change your way of teaching. The Clil methodology makes it possible to create lessons in which students have the opportunity to acquire knowledge autonomusly and mostly it allows them to acwuire cognitive and metacognitive skills. Finally, Clil methodology gives students the opportunity to work collaboratively. I have not yet had the chance to do a Clil lessons but I think its also rewarding for teachers. I think that because the teacher has to be brought into question  and he has the opportunity to propose his subject differently.

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I think the CLIL is a great opportunity for students and for teachers.

It provides an opportunity to acquire new skills!!!

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I love the mountains!!

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The test' s result is 83.
A score of between 75 and 100 shows that you are on your way to being an effective CLIL teacher who is applying many aspects of CLIL methodology in your classroom. However, you could think more about the language element of CLIL teaching and how to integrate language learning more with content learning.

I can become a good clil teacher!!!

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I'm Antonio Cintio. I'm a teacher in the Secondary School. I teach Maths. I live in Bagnoregio (Italy).