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CLIL in Practice: Focus on the EU

Create CLIL activities for any subject, with ready-to-use lessons built around the European Union.

About 3 hours

7 lessons

Self-paced

Certificate included

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A self-paced course for subject and language teachers who want to put CLIL into practice: the key principles of the approach and nine sample activities on the European Union and its six founding countries, each with handouts ready to use in class.

What you will learn

  • Understand the principles behind CLIL, including the 4Cs (content, communication, cognition and culture), and what a student-centred CLIL lesson requires
  • Recognise the most common challenges and structure CLIL activities that develop reading, writing, listening and speaking
  • Use authentic materials, from EU symbols and institutions to a film trailer and a famous painting, to combine content and language
  • Adapt nine ready-to-use activities, such as jigsaw reading, sequencing, problem solving and pre-scripted roleplay, to your own subject, class and language level

About this course

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) brings subject teaching and language learning together: students learn about a topic through a foreign language, and the topic gives them something real to read, write and talk about. It works for language teachers who want richer content and for subject teachers who teach in a second language, but it only succeeds with well-designed activities.

This course starts with the principles of CLIL and then moves straight into practice. Through nine sample activities on the European Union and its six founding members, Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and the Netherlands, you will see how different methods can turn European history, geography, culture and current affairs into engaging lessons. Each activity comes with a handout for students and an activity form for teachers, with timing, school and language level, the skills practised and step-by-step instructions, so you can use it as it is or adapt it for your own class.

Course content

7 lessons · about 3 hours

The course is organised in five topics. The first introduces the key ideas of CLIL and ends with a short interactive quiz. The other four each present two or three sample activities: every activity is explained step by step and followed by a worksheet with an activity form for teachers and a handout for students, and each topic closes with questions for reflection. After the first two topics, you can explore the activities in any order.

  • 40% Exercises Quizzes and activities to try
  • 60% Slides Presentations and readings
  1. 1 Welcome to the Course! 1 topicLocked
  2. 2 1. Introduction to CLIL 2 topicsLocked
  3. 3 2. CLIL Activities – The European Union 7 topicsLocked
  4. 4 3. CLIL activities – Germany and France 5 topicsLocked
  5. 5 4. CLIL activities – Belgium and Luxembourg 5 topicsLocked
  6. 6 5. CLIL activities – Italy and the Netherlands 5 topicsLocked
  7. 7 Congratulations! 2 topicsLocked

The lessons open once you are enrolled.

Your trainer

Sheila Corwin

Sheila Corwin

Head teacher trainer in Florence

Sheila grew up in California and has lived in Tuscany for many years. She designs and teaches professional development courses for language and subject teachers on CLIL, project-based learning, classroom management, cultural heritage and assessment.

  • Doctorate in Educational Psychology, California Coast University
  • Master’s degree in TESOL, Monterey Institute of International Studies
  • Author of the in-person course on CLIL focused on the EU
  • Teacher trainer at Europass since 2010

Your certificate

Complete all the lessons and your certificate of completion is generated automatically, ready to download as a PDF.

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