CLIL tips by Viviana Tavares Guerreiro Gagliardi Olivati

2024-01-22 14:06:49 UTC

During prime program class ask the students to read a text without google or a dictionary and write down words they don’t know. Ask them to repeat the words and try to guess the definition

2024-01-22 14:10:39 UTC

During Maths, while teaching addition / subtraction, ask the students to line up and step away from or go into the the line as you ask them to add or subtract

2024-01-22 14:16:46 UTC

To teach gases during science we can set the student in a circle, and they should change their positions running in the middle of the circle, through the time we can see the diameter gets bigger and bigger. We can explain the relationship between Volume and Temperature

2024-01-22 14:18:30 UTC

I started the class with a hangman exercise. The word was “Present” , and the goal was to teach them the meaning of “gift”. Then, they watched a video where all the characters were opening gifts they got from their families. After that. They role played the same activity (the dialogue was from their book) , and then we talked about what their favorite gifts were, etc…

2024-01-22 14:20:03 UTC

Use of digital resources such as google maps or cloudlabs (natural sciences)

2024-01-22 14:21:11 UTC

Use of golden beads material to teach addition, subtraction and division

Write new vocab on the board and make sure they all know the words. Then, ask a student to read out loud the first word, and the second one has to repeat the word and say the next word, and continue until all the words have been read. After that, erase the words and have them redo the game.

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Use of visual aids such as pictures or YouTube videos to promote discussion and introduce the topic and the vocabulary.

2024-01-22 14:25:41 UTC

Bring realia to the classroom, mystery box with their favorite toys. They have to show and tell why that is their favorite toy.

2024-01-22 14:28:28 UTC

We read a book together and after that show a movie related or exactly the same as the story book. And in the end they can dub it.

We take off the voice of the characters and we record them reading the lines. In the end we watch the movie with their own voices.

2024-01-22 14:28:54 UTC

Create charts and posters with definitions

Ex: mean, medium (math)

2024-01-22 14:30:02 UTC

If I am teaching “Prepositions”, for example, I would start with a game, spelling the word and then they have to do what I said in the chair (on, in, at, above, under). In the next context I would dance some music with then giving instructions highlighting the PREPOSITIONS.

2024-01-22 14:31:26 UTC

Use Nearpod to create interactive activities

2024-01-22 14:32:02 UTC

Divide the students into groups and ask them to create games. The students will then play other groups games

2024-01-22 14:33:07 UTC

Mind maps to help them understand the theme and all the related aspects of it.

2024-01-22 14:33:20 UTC

Ask students to make riddles that their classmates have to read and figure out what the answer is

Every week the students bring a mystery object to show the others and explain the importance of that object for them.

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Start classes with a warm up question. Maybe make a routine out of it, as if it was a project. Each week one student will share a curiosity they looked up during the week

2024-01-22 14:42:45 UTC

We should consider different perspectives to dive deep into a subject, using the historical approach our students can understand the steps that lead some scientist to develop some theory like Pythagora’s theorem

2024-01-22 14:47:32 UTC

Art + chemistry: The students can do an experience with milk, detergent and food ink (when they put a little bit of detergent in the milk the ink will spread an the result looks like a painting). They have to take a picture of that to record the result. The next step is transfer the photo for the paper and try to do it the most precisely as possible. And After that they show the paintings and discuss about it.