English in my life

ISFD y T 55 English and Its Teaching III UNDERCOVERING CLIL CHAPTER 3: Starting CLIL in the Classroom   SUBJECT: English and Its Teaching III TEACHER: Sara Racker STUDENTS: Bapp, Colombano and Rochelle Starting CLIL in the Classroom This chapter translates CLIL methodology into classroom practice. It proposes activities for the first week in a CLIL classroom at the primary, secondary and vocational levels. The lessons are based on the main features of the CLIL method and guiding principles of CLIL (described in Chapter 2). HOW DOES THE CLIL METHODOLOGY TRANSLATE INTO CLASSROOM PRACTICE? A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF A PRIMARY SCHOOL CLIL TEACHER : -There is an overview of activities that teachers can use in year one during the first week of school at the start of a CLIL programme. -It is assumed that most of the students entering school have very little or no prior knowledge of the CLIL language. -Students will often answer questions in their firs

My phrase of the week. We can learn everywhere, from everyone. Life is an opportunity to keep on learning eveyday even from our own mistakes. Stand and enjoy this beautiful ride! 

Enjoy with numbers! The Singing Walrus presents "Number song 1-20 for children" - an upbeat chant that helps kids count the numbers 1-20. The kids all count from 1-20 together three times, each time counting faster than the previous. This is perfect for preschool aged children, and for young learners of ESL and EFL! Today I had  a whole class devoted to numbers with my first group of kids. They are about 8-9 years old and they attend to private lessons in order to be prepared to start their English lessons at school in two years time. I projected the  following video I found in Youtube and the students really loved it! The first  time they sang it timidly. However, the second and third time they louded their  voices in chorus. They laughed because the song increased it speed so we had to  sing it twice. I recommend the video for you and your students in case you need  to revise them! I also prepared some activities such as sums, unscramble the words (so they practic