Content and Language Integrated Learning

The POOLS-T CLIL teams (Horizon College and Athena College met in the Netherlands in January 2010 to prepare the CLIL guide for the project. Read their meeting minutes here

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Gordon Wells from the Scottish POOLS-T team has developed a suite of flexible self-teach/self-test English  exercises suitable for CLIL, based on Island Voices video material. They can be accessed here

They are configured as four separate units.

Unit One may be considered suitable for students of a range of disciplines, eg rural or sustainable development, or business studies, as well as those interested in joinery and/or furniture restoration.

Unit Two would suit those studying on a Care-related vocational course - particularly in relation to Special Needs.

Unit Three could be suitable for Domestic Science as well as Travel and Tourism.

Unit Four links closely to Unit Three, but perhaps is better suited for students of Catering, Food Hygiene etc.

Equally all four units might be studied in a more general course with an area studies slant.

Download a document, which explains the unit structure in more detail, and outlines how the graded exercises relate to Scottish Qualifications Authority certification levels.

The text-blender has been used to provide English to English definitions. If anyone would like to add other languages, please feel free. We would be delighted if English-teaching project partners would like to try this material out with their own students. I'm sure it can be further improved!

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We can also offer a sample CLIL based lesson sequence for electricians' apprentices

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Jan Hardie from the POOLS-T Swiss team has prepared three online exercises suitable for CLIL, each unit has video and text in English with all words linked from English to Italian and is followed by exercises:

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Last edit: 18-01-2010

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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