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Introduction to CLIL in Primary Schools

Learn to teach a school subject through a foreign language, with lessons designed for primary pupils.

About 3 hours

9 lessons

Self-paced

€25

one-off payment

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A self-paced course for primary and language teachers who want to start with CLIL: how to choose suitable topics, adapt existing materials, work on the four skills and plan a complete lesson for young learners.

What you will learn

  • Choose CLIL topics that match your pupils’ age, language level and curriculum, and the time you have
  • Find reliable materials and adapt them for children who are still learning the language
  • Use games, songs, drama and Total Physical Response (TPR) to keep lessons active and motivating
  • Develop the four skills step by step, assess learning and plan a complete CLIL lesson

About this course

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is an approach in which pupils learn a curriculum subject, such as science, geography or art, through a foreign language. The subject gives the language a real purpose, and the language becomes the tool for learning the subject. Used well, CLIL builds both at the same time, and more and more schools across Europe are adopting it.

With young learners, CLIL needs careful choices: not every topic works in a second language, most materials are written for native speakers, and a six-year-old and an eleven-year-old need very different lessons. This course takes you through these choices step by step, from selecting a topic to delivering a full lesson, with practical strategies and sample lesson plans you can adapt for your own classes.

Course content

9 lessons · about 3 hours

The course is organised in five topics. Each topic opens with a short introduction and continues with video lessons in which your trainer explains the key ideas with the help of slides. A workbook accompanies you throughout the course, and the final topic includes sample lesson plans to download.

  • 80% Video Short lessons with your trainer
  • 10% Exercises Quizzes and activities to try
  • 10% Slides Presentations and readings
  1. 1 Introduction Locked
  2. 2 Welcome to the Course! 4 topicsLocked
  3. 3 1. Choosing CLIL Topics 5 topicsLocked
  4. 4 2. Content, Sourcing and Adapting existing material 5 topicsLocked
  5. 5 3. Make it fun! 2 topicsLocked
  6. 6 4. The 4 Skills and Assessment 5 topicsLocked
  7. 7 5. Crafting a CLIL Lesson Plan from Start to Finish 5 topicsLocked
  8. 8 6. Conclusion Locked
  9. 9 Congratulations! 3 topicsLocked

The lessons open once you are enrolled.

Your trainer

Arturo Signoretti

Arturo Signoretti

Online course creator in Florence

Arturo creates the online courses of Europass Teacher Academy, working with our trainers to turn their courses and classroom experience into clear, structured video lessons.

  • Master’s degree in Historical Sciences, University of Bologna
  • Executive programme in Publishing and Digital Media, Politecnico di Milano
  • Erasmus+ student in Edinburgh, Scotland, and at Europass since 2025

Based on an original course by Lucy Tasca, Europass teacher trainer in Florence.

Your certificate

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

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