Digital technologies are very important for CLIL:

- they allow to search for information about the topic (using  Internet and the web)

- they allow to prepare work’s presentation which students organize working in group and collaborating each other using webtool like Prezi 

- in a CLIL lesson use, f.e. You Tube, is stimulating because students watch real life situation, listen to English and can learn more quickly

- teacher can involve multiple intelligences and all students can obtain success  in their work at school

Tale of a very hungry caterpillar  that eats everything till becames butterfly. 

 

My students are 8 years old, they have to read simple phrases and repeat the same words and the same structures.

 |  School level where it could be used   | Primary. First three years.
 |  CLIL Connections in reader: find links to one or more of the following subjects by researching a related topic of interest to you.  Literature Mathematics Science History Music History of Art Geography Philosophy Religion Economics Technology    | Science (food) History (days of the week)
 |  Subject chosen Science/ History  Topic Food/ days of the week    | Trought the story, students learn food words and days of the week.
 |  Description of CLIL connections and project   | Like the caterpillar, students says their tastes about food. They repeat days of the week and memorize them using the same simple phrases that there are in the book.
 |  Skill/ skills the project will enhance     | Listening, speaking and reading
 | Webtool chosen for enhancing reading/writing/vocabulary etc.: how to use it (describe)  | I like discovering Newsela, but I don’t know if my students, 8 years old; can use it.
 |  Project type (describe)  Poster Video trailer Padlet Presentation Other | Poster PPT or Prezi presentation  Students are divided in groups and draw a part of story. Then make a poster and a PPT or Prezi presentation using key words by the book. They also can read small phrases and accompany the picture.

Extensive Reading is a good way to approach students to the reading.  It allows students love books and reading only for pleasure, choosing the book that they prefer. In my class I don’t adopt ministerial texts, but I’ve got “alternative library” and students have in class a lot of books of various type, subjects, difficult or easy, with picture or not… They learn to love reading. I think that also for Clil this is a good experience, above all with middle school students or higher when reading often is a duty and not a pleasure.

In my “Extensive Reading in Clil lesson plan” I choose “The very hungry caterpillar”. My students are 8-9 years old and need to memorize words and simple structures. This book is perfect because is repetitive, is colored, there are pictures and students can read it alone and understand the story. They can use phrases in other situation and memorize them in an enjoyable way.

      X   primary   

 | Topic  | Know body’s parts, describe fruit and food using senses, ask and answer about fruit and food 
 | Subject/s | English/Science  
 | Target | Students 8/9 years old
| Target competence level (A1,A2,B1,B2, C1, C2) | A1
 | Number of hours (approx) | 6/8 
| Objectives   | Language: Know body’s parts, describe fruit and food using senses, ask and answer about fruit and food  Content: body, food   Technology: Computer - Lim
 | Teacher’s role Students’ role | Teacher stimulates students and invite them to use English language in a real situation Students use English actively and learn another subject(science) in English
| Outcomes (links, resources etc.)   | www.youtube.com http://www.macmillaninspiration.com/new/resources/web-projects www.prezi.com 
| Assessment | The grid and the Prezi presentation explained by students to their parents
| Webtools and/or devices used    | www.prezi.com photostrips
| Video sent by email: | Yes                            no X if no, link to the video uploaded on the web: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7RB2D4-_E1rLUxBQ1Bicmp3bk0