SIXTH LESSON

In this sixth lesson we started commenting the article, Integrating art into teaching English at a primary level: a case study by Zuzana Strakovà. After that, we saw a website called CESIRE where you have lots of examples of units made by other teachers like an origami unit or a unit about how to work with the Seasons trough artists. I found it interesting because from there you can find ideas for your own units and also share your work with the others.

  

Then, we saw a PowerPoint presentation about how to encourage talking and discussion in CLIL classrooms. Some of the tips that we were given were:

·     Use of visual prompts.

·         Make questions which invite to the children to give their opinion.

·         Use “gap filling” but where the missing word is unclear or personal.

·         Use prompts for an open-ended dialogue.

·         Role-playings.

I think that is a really interesting topic not only in CLIL but also in all the other subjects from Primary and we haven’t never discussed it during the degree.

Finally, we had time to work in group and discuss how to do the microteaching and the project