THIRD LESSON

In this third lesson we started making a review all together from the reading Traditional ELT versus CLIL: Mind the Gap! After that, we went deeper into the concept of scaffolding which we talked briefly about the previous lesson.

To deal with it we were given lots of examples. First of all we saw a text which was no properly scaffold to make us aware that we should always think about the type of text we are giving to our pupils. To do it so we must think about what language is more appropriate for them and so what language support should we provide to them.

In order to help us to do that we were given three tips:

1. Make the text easier. That’s not reducing the content but making it easier to understand to the pupils. In the example we were given the content was the same but with easier structures and an easier language.
2. Provide reading support. That can be done in lots of ways, one of it is underlining the most important words with different colours; another one is giving them some pictures explaining the same like in the text with some labels to understand the process and another one is matching the words with a sentence.
3. Provide writing support. That can be done with a substitution table which helps them to summarize the text and have a more general view about it.

After all that examples we were given a new task, analysing a text book from CLIL. It is a really interesting task because then we can see if all this theory we have been taught is then in the books or they simply translate it from a L1 book.