Read from the BBC science section

https://www.history.com/news/shackleton-endurance-survival

Introduce beginners to as many true cognates as possible – good for confidence

• Encourage learners to guess cognates and give them guidelines 

• Encourage checking with dictionary

• Encourage students to pay attention to pronunciation

• Demonstrate the 'rules' which are always the same

2) Tell a story about your content in your own words. Choose language graded to the learners level.

3) Introduce the concept of cognates. Ask learners to find all the cognates in a text

4) Use Magic School to simplify texts to different levels. Use - kindergarten level for primary.

5) Find photographs that tell a story. Learners put the correct caption to each photo.

6) Cut up a text into paragraphs. Using glue sticks and card, learners stick the text in a logical order.

7) Introduce new vocabulary through a simple speaking activity - Rank the list of items in order of priority.

8) Pictionary- Guess which word on the vocabulary list I am drawing

9) Predict useful words that will appear in a text or video. Use a dictionary to list five key terms

10) Ask learners to brainstorm a topic. Make a 'word cloud' of their answers.

15.40 Bea

Game with negative numbers. L's call out operations, answer in teams

15.50 Javier CS

Crossword (AI generated) Fill in the words outside, if you need a clue score a goal) Give commentary to a game using this vocabulary.

16.00 Esther

Mind map- music and cinema genres. Groups think of categories and illustrate them. Share the results.

16.10 Natalia

Islamic art - make a word cloud

Show examples, free talking about it

Video with subtitles, hearing colours

16.20 Fuen

Dealing with global issues through pop songs

Translating songs, choosing keywords

do a 'one pager' : a poster with some quotes, the message, the characters, the genre, what it means to them

Follow by a debate on the issues, like domestic violence

16.30 Pepe

1. Word search for the American and French revolutions - using synonyms.

2. Match concepts with definitions,

3. crosswords: each word gets repeated two or three times

Blooket (competitive version)

4. Gap fill with the information (exam simulation)

5. Open questions reacting to a quote or article

16.40 Nuria

CLIL student of the month diploma. Learners vote for who has made the most effort. They get a free breakfast in the canteen and the head of studies presents it and calls ther parents

16.50 Cristo - pictionary. Draw something and the others guess what the people are doing (present continuous), mimic actions guessing game

17.00 Laura

Technology - flashcards in groups of three: picture of a tool, the name and what it does. Talk about safety in the classroom.

Minecraft for education - Hour of code challenges

Break

17.30 Angel

Select a video about your topic where the actions and images reflect the text. Download the script and ask Chat GPT to come up with the keywords from the text. Make a word cloud with them. Ask AI to create a picture with those keywords. While the learners are watching the video, they label the diagram

17.40 Adi

Canary Art / see PPt presentation on this Padlet

17.50 Diego

Card game with clocks / 5th Primary

Moving forwards and backwards in time by the number of minutes marked on the card. Like Uno

18.00 Sole

Biology and Geology / 4ESO

Paper cut outs - pass a string of code (letters on a paper) through a photocopy of a cell. Learners make a video-tutorial to describe the process they went through to get genetics codes.

Visit to the 'ayuntamiento' in the role of journalists. They went to the council and asked questions in Spanish. Then back in the class they debate the content (in Spanish) then they reverse into English and make a radio programme about the visit in English.

18.10 Xiomara

Music in 5 years old - relate a note with a colour - learners call out the colour when she plays a note.

Body percussion - using clap, snap, blow

18.20 Encarni

Emocrea, 6 or 7 years old. Some has to be in Spanish as the goal is to be able to express their feelings correctly. Just the names of the emotions come in English, otherwise they can't go deeply enough.

Lolly sticks with questions written on them 'When did you help someone today? Find people who are willing to answer the question. Actively listen to them. They can speak in Spanish, but the inout has to be understood in English.

18.30 Javier

Warm ups and PE games - touch something yellow