CLIL Activities
CLIL stands for content and language integrated learning. It consists in teaching a subject through the medium of a language other than the school language. In CLIL classes learners gain knowledge of the subject while simultaneously using and learning the foreign language. It is important to notice that CONTENT is the first word in CLIL. However, CLIL subject teachers also need to help learners with language, make learners notice it and then use it.
This is where "CLIL ACTIVITIES" come in. Experienced CLIL teachers have come up with 36 activities which help knowledge acquisition and give language support. They are our learners' favourites and easy to carry out. We hope you and your classes will enjoy them!
Choose the type of activity:
All on/offActivities:
- Firing Questions at Expert
- Find Someone Who ... | Examples from Science
- 5 questions to Expert
- Disappearing Words
- Word Rose | Example from Citizenship
- 2 LOTS and 1 HOTS Questions
- Scaffolding Vocabulary | Example from Science
- Functional language | Lists Examples
- Writing frames | Examples from History/Biography | Examples from Science
- Matching Heads and Tails | Examples from Geography
- Concentric circles
- Scaffolding Listening and Reading | I know I have learnt Sample Table
- “Popcorn” Reading and Paragraph Analysis
- Expert Circles: Numbered Heads Together
- Jumbled texts | Examples from History
- Differentiation: Challenge and Easy Life
- Note-Taking: 6 squares
- Research: Cause and Effect
- Gapped Cause and Effect Examples from Science
- Gapped Text
- Gapped Mind-map
- Visual to Text
- Text to Visual
- Labelling | Example from Biology | Example from History
- Categorizing
- Matching Picture to Text
- Real play: Moral dilemmas | Example from Geography
- Working with Videos
- Speed Dating
- Coloured circles
- Mutual Dictation | Example from Science
- Hot Seat
- CLIL Water Ball
- 3-2-1 Evaluation 3-2-1 Revision
- 2 Stars and a Wish
Carmen Steiner, Dagmar Morandell, and Rosmarie de Monte Frick