• Introduce the wider cultural context
• Prepare for internationalisation
• Improve overall and specific language competence
• Prepare for future studies and / or working life
• Develop multilingual interests and attitudes
• Diversify methods & forms of classroom teaching and learning
• Increase learner motivation.

•  content subject teachers are able to promote their subject learning through English and Italian 
• to speed up learning a foreign language (in our case: English/ Italian) 
• to be able to use English/ Italian fluently and easily (a very important skill for students) 
• to prepare students to act on the international level 
• to develop good communication skills

•  EU students need English and Italian to equally participate in the European community to be able to communicate while travelling, studying or doing business abroad 
•  self-confident students use a foreign language as a content learning tool /medium  students are aware of how important learning a foreign language is to be able to analyse problems or challenges from different perspectives and to evaluate them

• Developing online teaching skills
• Developing CLIL competences
• a Framework for the professional development of CLIL teachers
• http://www.ecml.at/

• Extensive reading: An alternative approach
• Aims of extensive reading
• The characteristics of an extensive reading approach
• Motivation
• The teacher's role
• Conclusion

• Reading material
• Student choice
• Reading for pleasure and infomation
• Extensive reading out of class
• Silent reading in class
• Language level
• Use of dictionaries
• Record keeping
• The teacher as role model

1. Cover Illustration Game
2. Word Class Hunt
3. Making a Statement
4. Talking Text
5. Five Words
6. Question Time
7. Sentence Starter

1. It can provide 'comprehensible input'
2. It can enhance learners' general language competence
3. . It increases the students' exposure to the language
4.  It can increase knowledge of vocabulary
5. . It can lead to improvement in writing
6. It can motivate learners to read
7.  It can consolidate previously learned language
8. It helps to build confidence with extended texts
9. It encourages the exploitation of textual redundancy
10. It facilitates the development of prediction skills

1. ER develops learner autonomy.
2. ER offers Comprehensible Input.
3. ER enhances general language competence
4. ER  helps develop general, world knowledge.
5. ER extends, consolidates and sustains vocabulary growth.
6. ER helps improve writing.
7. ER creates and sustains motivation to read more.

Even more choice and variety of authentic topics 

Unit opener pages that introduce each topic and highlight learning objectives to aid learner autonomy 

More differentiation to cater specifically for mixed-ability classes Language Links features that look at the influence of other languages and cultures on English 

Special CLIL lessons in the Workbook that build on the topic material in the Student’s Book 

Fantastic easy-to-use Inspiration Interactive Classroom Interactive Whiteboard software for each level.