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If I chose another time, I would go to CLIL again. I think our teachers are good. I have always heard that teachers in secondary school are meaner than the others who teach in middle school or at least there is one who is truly mean but in our class all teachers are okay. Maybe they are not all fluent in English but we are not all mother tongue. I like CLIL activities even they are more difficult because I learn new English words and sometimes when I need them, I remember the words from the activities. About CLIL activities, I regret that we study in English some concepts, which are difficult even to learn in Italian language and for that reason we could not understand well something that we will not study it in Italian another time. It is a shame we have not IT as a subject. In these days, knowing like a computer works is a must, but studying by ourselves is really hard because the informatics language is not a joke. I think CLIL is a great opportunity for us.

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I’m quite happy with my choice because I have a lot of opportunities: I can learn in English, that is really important. But there are also a lot of negative things and sometimes I tell my self: “Why did I choose CLIL?” I can’t say that is a simple class, of course learn in English is more difficult that learn in Italian. But this is a challenge and I love challenges so I chose to try to do this class. At home I don’t have much free time because I have to do my homework or do some sports, so sometimes I’m really tired. Every day there are at least two oral tests. Fortunately we are in 28 so you have only one oral test for subject in a month. Often I am not really happy with my marks, but I don’t have the time to study more so I can’t improve. In the end I can say that if I could choose again I wouldn’t be so convinced to do CLIL. I would think twice.

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CLIL is a great chance that I’ve taken. It isn’t true that it’s a difficult class, it requires hard-working and willpower only. This class offers more opportunities than the others, because to know English is really important in order not to have languages barriers in the world, to express your own ideas.

CLIL joins the subjects of a scientific high school with the English language, which means more fluency and speech skills. So it’s a great class for those who love and are good at Maths and English.

The only negative aspect is that teachers are a lot demanding and sometimes it’s hard to balance study and have fun.

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When I did the choice of attending this course at first I think that I could do it. Then, when I realize better the situation, I said "No! I can't do it! It will be so difficult!" And when I did my first lesson of History in English I was terrified bacause I didn't undersand nothing and I thought that it would be continually worse. But only two months later my ears used to hear the English language not only in the grammar and vocabulary parts, but also in Maths' discussions or Science's topics.
I'm really happy of my choice and I don't want to change it: obviouslly it will be more difficult but step by step I will arrive at the end of this travel.

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Overall, I think i did the right choice, but there are, obviously, pros and cons.

The pros are that this is a course which improve your English skills and it teach you how to speak more fluently, which is why I do it.

The cons are that we do many things, more than other students do. I think that our teacher believe we can do more difficult and more things than other, only because we are at CLIL, but we are here not because we are geniuses but because we love English.

I like doing other subjects in English, it isn’t so difficult as I thought, there are some teacher who are wonderful, other don’t speak English very well.

One of the thing I like least are projects. Some theachers give us  things  that aren't in the programm but they invent them for us. It's very kind things that they do for us but them confuse me. I think this is a my problem, but I hate to do projects and things which are unusual, I don’t really know why but they stress me, like tests and oral ones and like homework. A lot of homework. Sometimes they are very few, sometimes they are so much I can’t do both them and do what I want, and sometimes we don't understand exactly what to do.

My classmates are wonderful and i can't complian about this.

CLIL is a special opportunity, it makes me proud of myself, but sometimes it make me depressed.

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At the beginning of the third year of middle school I hadn’t got clear ideas of what to do next, what I wanted to study and which I school I wanted to attend. But suddenly I found out about a particular school course called CLIL: to be honest, I had never heard of that name before, but some friends of mine knew people who used to attend that course, so I got interested about it. When I found out that was a scientific course with specific lessons in English I got even more exited: I love English, and at the time I used to have extra lessons with another teacher, because I wasn’t satisfied with my school’s teacher and I wanted to improve my skills. He said that I the right language level and therefore I decided to test myself and try to enter the class. Personally, CLIL started as a challenge to test myself and it still represents what it represented at the beginning. I want to learn, more and more things, even if that means sacrifice some of my freetime. At the moment I’m quite satisfied with this course: I want to continue my experience at Grigoletti, knowing that things will continue to get harder, but giving up is not on my “to-do” list.

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Am I happy with this choise? it is a good question and nowadays I am not sure about the answer.
I choose CLIL because I always  liked English (AND I STILL LIKE IT) and i think that it is useful for the future.
However i noticed that CLIL is different from other classes not because of English but mostly because we are students who want to study and we are always one step ahead of the others; and this is proven by the tests of the last year. And now I don't know if this is the way I planned for this importants years of my life; i mean i love Learning things but i am not sure if this long way (CLIL) is the right one. I see my friends of "liceo grigoletti" who are not stressed as I am becuase of the school... And that's all.
Then I have a problem with the weariness that when i arrived at home I dont have any strength to start studying. So I start really late my homework and at the end I dont go to do my sport because I have to study. Not to talk about the marks. i was used to have wonderful marks last years and be one of the best students of my last class. Now I am one of the worst student and my marks have been decreased a lot and it is quite depressing sometimes. This is what it is about my choice. I hope i will be more confident  about  CLIL and now I try to do my best to be proud of me and especially make my parents proud of me.

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If I will have the possibility I think I would choose CLIL again.
I am convinced of my choice, I am not convinced of the amount of time that I spend everyday doing my homework.
I had to delete all my afternoon activities because I don't have time to study, and I can't live with the reality that I can't have time for myself.
Given that I have no time for myself I am always irritable, frustrated and depressed, and I can't adjust these emotions.
In this period I'm feeling bad, I can't sleep at night because I am to anxious for school and apart from school I have some other problems, but teachers don't care that we are adolescent, teachers treat us like we are drudges.
In this two weeks I slept between five and seven hours, I am exhausted and unfortunately I don't have time to recover the sleep.
Teachers exstabilish new tests everyday and usually we have less then a week to learn all, and sometimes they neither explain what we have to study, so it is useless to have teachers because you have to study all by your own.
Personally I don't know what to do.
And I see all of my friends that are in other types of high school doing nothing in the afternoon, watching television, going out with their friends, and I always start to cry and feel depressed  because I have no time, I don't have any possibility of unload because I delete all the things that make me happy.
Yes, my english improved but at what price?
The price is higher than the profit, in this case.
I admit I am not a genius, I am a normal person so please treat me like a normal person!
And there are some teachers that really can't speak in english, so I keep asking myself why this type of people are teaching in a CLIL course?
I have too many questions, and only a few answers.
But there are people that make me happy of course.
Some of my classmates for example, and a small part of the teachers.
CLIL is a great opportunity for me and I'm trying to doing my best to be the people I truly want to be in the future.

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Am happy with my choice?

I think that if I could go back to the past, I'll choose the CLIL course, it's a really good opportunity for me to improve my English applying it to subjects, and it really different from speaking English at home.

Although they are some things which I think we can really improve.

I admit that I'm disappointed because before I attending this course I thought all the teachers speaked good English but after attending this course I realized that not all our teachers are good in English, so it difficult for them to explain and so for you who are listening to the lesson it difficult do.

I also think some teachers are not so involved in doing English lessons,but they're also very good teachers who really do creative lessons, making them more interesting.

I would also like that the teachers sometimes understand me, and not pretend always, because I always try do to my best so if sometimes they see I'm in difficult they should try to help.

Although I'm happy to be in this class, because I have so intelligent classmates who are passionate with what they learn and so I can really learn many things from them and they also involve me to study and work hard.

Finally I'm happy with my choice the are the things that we can really improve.

If we improve these things I already mentioned I think it we'll be a really great course!

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I do not think I would not choose CLIL if I had the possibility to, but I cannot even be sure that I would be so proud and excited about my choice.

I can say that CLIL has increased my english skills a lot in just one year and I know how to turn to somebody now, but it really made me feel discouraged sometimes, especially when my classmates had no problems to understand Maths and Science and Physics in english language and I could barely translate the words.

When I attended the first year of CLIL, I have suddenly noticed that there are two kinds of teachers: the first ones who try to do challenging lessons to make our vocabulary improve; and the second ones who do not take english classes so seriously or because they do not think that our knowledge is good enough or because they do not want to put effort pointlessly.

I am sure that my english will improve and that I will be able to speak fluently, and I am happy with that. Anyway, I am not sure that my excitement will increase.

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At first, I thought that CLIL was a special course more difficult than the others high school courses, with certificated teachers and very cleaver students. The only big problem of this class is that nobody before your decision to attend to this says the truth, and here I am to say it.

I found many negative sides in these two years of high school. Everybody thinks that CLIL is difficult because of the English lessons, but I leant that is the smallest problem: yes, you have to know English to understand what the teacher is saying but the in the majority of the times is the topic of the lesson that is difficult, also explained in Italian. I thought that the topic of all the subject were the same of the other scientific courses, or linguistic ones. However, I understand that we done things that the other students do the next year, and even if we spend a lot of time for study all of this thing the results are not always good. I know that this class is for who want to succeed in the future, and this implies that it must be difficult, but in some moments I fell so depressed and sad because after hours and hours of study, the teachers are not happy about me. Some weeks I spent all the afternoon and the night on my desk and I sleep 4 hours per day to complete my homework and the next days teachers do not care about my condition, complaining if I looks tired or if I do not pay attention during the lesson. About teachers, there are two others problem: the first is that some of them do not speak English very fluently and is very hard to understand what they want to explain especially if the subject is complicated. The second problem is that they do not care about the enormous amount of work we have to do. They continue to give us homework and set the date of tests, but at the same time some of them do not prepare what to say to us for the lesson or they give back to us our test weeks later, when we had only an afternoon to study.

Anyway, I cannot say that for me this was a bad choice. I like work hard and I sacrificed a lot of my free time in these years, but I am happy with it. I am the kind of person that get angry is the results are not the same that expected, but I know that CLIL will help me in the future.

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I think that frequenting a CLIL course is a great opportiunity to improve our foreign languages skills and to learn subjects in a different language. It would also give us the possibility of attending universities abroad.

I am happy of my choice because I think it is very useful and some teachers really care about preparing good CLIL lessons and being sure everyone of us has learnt. On the other hand I am a bit disappointed because we are not doing CLIL classes with all our teachers.

I also believe that some teacher charry us too much and demand us high results, just because we attend CLIL. But this is not an excuse. We have other activities outside school and our life doesn’t only revolve around school. Learning is right, but we are also allowed to have some free time.

However I am really happy of being in this class, where I met great people.

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I choose CLIL because I thought that in this way I would improve my English and that's a great opportunity.
Now that I'm in this class I think that there are some negative aspects
For example, some teacher gives us too much pressure and anxiety that sometimes is not necessary and makes us feel sad,we also feel sad when we study hard and don't get the results.
We also have to work in a completely different way, more challenging, more difficult from our mates that aren't in this course.
But even if these aspects are part of our daily routine, it's difficult not to  mention the positive aspects of this class. First of all, we are a wonderful class and have great relationships between us, wich is not assumed. Then  since last year, we have improved our English level thanks to our CLIL lessons, and maybe all this pressure that makes us feel sad will give us more privileges and more opportunity out of high school, so we keep working hard and try to don't give up and that's the only reason why I can say that I'm happy with my choice.

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I personally really enjoy CLIL. I think that choosing to do this kind of school will help me in the future, maybe for the University and my future job. Also, I think that English is a really important language in our society, mainly because by knowing it you can go to several places and not have any comunication problems. Of course, there are also not so good aspects  in our class, for example, we don’t always understand non-english teachers when they speak, but then they repeat what they said, so the CLIL lessons are not so difficut, also because we tend to do easy parts of the subjects in English.

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I’m quite happy with my choice but I think there are also many negative sides of attending a CLIL class. I think that our course is not very different from the other even if we must study a lot and the marks we obtain are not the ones we expect. Sometimes I feel very sad because I don’t get the results I deserve but I don’t give up because CLIL is a way to improve my English, a big opportunity for our future and honestly is what I ever wanted to study. I hate the fact that every day I am compared with my classmates and this make me very anxious and sad because sometimes I feel like I’m not as good as some of my friends. But there are also good sides of attending this “special class” because since the last year I noticed that I improved a lot my English and now I’m able to speak more fluently and some teachers are helping us a lot to improve our vocabulary. Despite this I’m not so happy that some teachers don’t take so seriously the CLIL lessons and do it in a hasty way because it is a waste of time and we don’t understand anything. We are a class of hard workers and we try to help each other but it is not so easy because teachers are very demanding (more than in the other courses) because they are sure that if we chose this course we want to give the best and succeed but it is very hard for the most part of us. Despite this if I could come back I will choose again this course because it is what I need to fulfil my dreams.

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I've chosen CLIL beacuse I decided to attend a scientific high school and I liked the idea of doing a part of all the subjects in English. I'll be honest: I'm happy of my choice even though sometimes I think that I've chosen this class to learn much  more things in English and not to do much more homework than all the other classes even when they aren't pertaining to CLIL project. This fact is a little bit annoying but obviously it isn't relating to all the subjects and to all the teachers. I love my class and my classmates, but sometimes I feel a bit out of place because I'm not as apprehehensive as my classmates about marks or tests. This doesn't mean that I don't care about school, but only that my classmates and me have different personalities, different routines and different lifes. Surely there are people in my class better than me at school, but I don't care of it because I'm proud of what I am. Anyway, I think that if I could go back I'll choose CLIL again. I've always loved the challenges and I get bored if I don't work hard!

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In my opinion CLIL is an important opportunity that we have. I’m very happy with my choice because in this “special class” I learn lots of things especially I learn very well English that is, to me, a very important language because, I think that it can be useful for my future. I think also that if you want to attend CLIL class, you have to work hard, don’t consider the school as a game and give all your best. I think that the teachers are very helpful when you are in a bad situation, but they are strict too and it is right. Lots of the lessons are in English so you have to be good at english too. The base of the CLIL is the diligence because you have to use this opportunity. Sometimes I want to change my decision because I want to have more free time but then I understand that if I want a good future I have to be mature and make selections, the right selections: friends, family and school.

Sometimes the tests or the oral exams make me anxious and I feel bad and sad. This is my character and I consider tha marks  too much important: always my father says “Doesn’t matter if you take a bad mark the important thing is that you learn something more” and he is right.

This class is a big family and I’m glad to be part of this family.

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Frankly, I am delighted to attend CLIL classes and I think it is one of the best choices I've ever made.
As the others have already pointed out,there are both negative and positive sides.
In fact sometimes it is so difficult  and challenging  that I feel as if i won't endure it any more,but the satisfaction it gives is inderscribable.I know I have to work hard,but I am also conscious it will not be vain.
I love it especially for one reason:it gives me much more possibilities than a normal course.
I am not going to give up,because I love everything I learn and study every day and I am buiding my future.
"Virtus sudore et sanguine colenda est."
"Virtue is cultivated with sweat and blood."-Seneca

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In my opinion CLIL is a very good way to learn English but I'm not very happy with my choice. Being in a CLIL class means working very hard and I find it very difficult not to worry about the marks when I am in a class of hard working people. I don't like being  compared to my class mates it makes me feel useless. This class makes me anxious and every day I have to "survive" school. Some teachers don't take it seriously, they just prepare some fotocopies in English and they give it to us, but other Teachers work really hard and try to do their best.
The only good thing is that I found some really good friends that I love a lot and that don't make me feel so stupid.

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I’m happy with my choice: CLIL is a great opportunity for my future and I like being part of this kind of family; but I’ll be honest with you: sometimes this school makes me anxious because of the marks.

I know that I shouldn’t do that: teachers say that the school (and the life) is not make out of marks, but in my class there are so many good students that I worry to be compared with them.

However, I like doing lessons (especially when we talk in English) because the teachers are nice and really involving.

Even teachers are strict (not all), they are all fair and sensible, and they try to help you.

This school has taught me a lot since the first day of first class and I know it will continue to do that for years.

CLIL is a challenging school: teachers put you to the test, but trust me, when you succeed they acknowledge it.

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I am not so happy with my choice and to be honest it does not satisfied me so much. I mean: it is true that we do lessons in english and that we try to see things in another way but, except this, there are not so many differences between my course and a normal scientific course. Another negative thing, it's that some teachers that teach at CLIL are not so able to speak english fluently and so this make me so confused because they try to explain thing that are difficult even in italian in a language that they are not able to speak.  Despite this there are some good teachers as Mrs Nodassi, Mrs Bruno and obviously Mrs Ziraldo that make me happy with my choice.
I hope that during the school years we will have the opportunity to travel because the best way to learn english for me is meeting english people.
If I could come back I'm not sure that I'll choose again this course.
Luckily my class is good enough even if sometimes, talking with my mates that are geniuses, I feel useless and so dumb.

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I think there are both positive and negative sides of attending CLIL.

Let’s start from the negative ones. First of all, CLIL isn’t so much different from the other courses. In fact, not all the teachers take it seriously and do the CLIL module throughout the year, but only for a few lessons. Moreover, teachers are more demanding than in the other classes only because we are attending CLIL so they might think we are some kind of geniuses I guess, but that’s not true and this situation often puts us under lots of unnecessary pressure, because, even though we work hard, it doesn’t always pay us back.

I’d like to have more lessons in English, but I know it’s a bit difficult to do so because not everybody has the same level of English in this class.

However, I have good classmates and I think I have lots in common with most of them, so that’s great.

I also think that being in a CLIL course gives you more opportunities, like the e-twinning, for example, which I think is really cool, or going to the UK.
I've also noticed that I speak English more fluently and I've definitely learnt tons of new words which are commonly used in English-speaking countries.