Title
Intensive English Course and CLIL for Teachers (LANG.1.ENCLIL)
Provider:
Europass Teacher Academy
Course Location
Dublin
Course Description
This course aims at developing teachers’ fluency and accuracy in the English language. It also takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding CLIL methodology and introduces participants to how the theory can relate to their own classroom practice. Includes CLIL lesson planning, resources, and the creation of materials.
The course addresses teachers of all subjects who would like to refresh and broaden their skills in the English language, implement CLIL methodology in their classes, understand its principles and applications, and find resources and lesson materials.
By the end of the course, participants will feel more confident in speaking and writing in English. They will have also learned the key principle of CLIL lesson planning, material development and the integration of content and language teaching.
Learning Outcomes
Teachers of all academic subjects will improve their English language proficiency and they will become more comfortable with teaching their courses in English to non-native speakers of English. They will learn techniques and new skills for teaching their academic content in English and become better equipped to develop and incorporate activities that involve the four basic skills (reading, writing, listening,
and speaking) into their classrooms. They will gain new ideas and approaches for assessing language learners, correcting errors, and including more pair and group work.
Duration of Training
25 hours
Type of certification awarded
- Certificate of attendance including description of training content and time input.
- Europass Mobility Certificate
2nd June 2019: Arrival in Dublin. Waiting for the course.....
topics: General English and CLIL CLIL programme Tuesday: Vocabulary and Communication in the CLIL Classroom This session focuses on teaching content and non-content vocabulary, dealing with emergent language and how to promote communication in lessons. Wednesday: Adapting Materials This input session will look at how materials can be adapted and exploited to suit the needs of your students. We’ll also look at how authentic materials can be modified to be used in the classroom. Thursday: Productive and Receptive Skills in CLIL Reading, writing, listening and speaking skills will be looked at within the context of a CLIL lesson in conjunction with using scaffolding activities. Friday: Assessment in the CLIL Classroom Our final session will look at how students are assessed (formal, informal and summative testing) monitored and the effects of backwash/forward wash. |
2nd June 2019: Arrival in Dublin. Waiting for the course
3rd June 2019: Irish Bank Holiday. The June Bank Holiday comes on the first Monday of the month and it originally came on the day after Pentecost Sunday and was known as Pentecost or “Whit” Monday.As the school is closed our tour of Ireland has been anticipated.
Tour: the Celtic Boyne Valley
3rd June 2019: Irish Bank Holiday. The June Bank Holiday comes on the first Monday of the month and it originally came on the day after Pentecost Sunday and was known as Pentecost or “Whit” Monday.As the school is closed our tour of Ireland has been anticipated.
Tour: the Celtic Boyne Valley
Daily activities and related authentic materials.
The ruins of Tara
The ruins of Loughcrew
Burial tombs dating back to 3200 BC
Hill of Uisneach
Spiritual and geographical centre of Ireland. The point at which the kings of the five provinces celebrated the Festival of Fires
First day of course
8.30 am:assessment and placement
9.00am-12.30 am General English
12.30 am -1.30 pm: elective
2.30 pm - 4.20 pm: CLIL
GENERAL ENGLISH: LESSON 1
9.00am-12.30 am General English
12.30 am -1.30 pm: elective
2.30 pm - 4.20 pm: CLIL
GENERAL ENGLISH: LESSON 1
- Presentations
- Group work: Discussion about the Questionnaire and production of new questions
- Tourism: collocation language (language for a specific purpose)
- To escape the crowd
- Wander off/ get off the beaten track
- Get back to nature
- A promising choice
- To boast
- Hordes
- Tourism sector
- Seeking something out of the ordinary
- Wealth of
- Tracks
- Virgin rainforest
- Flora and fauna
- eco-tourism
- to unwind
- to recharge
- to taste
- To savour
- “the bush”
- Waterfront
- Stunning
- Umbeatable
- Unrivalled
- Awe-inspiring
- Breathtaking
- Gobsmacked
- Discerning traveller
- Rumbles- hikes - tracks
- Production: sell your country
THE ELECTIVE (INTENSIVE COMMUNICATION)
- Life and experience: proverbs
CLIL SESSION: LESSON 1
C: content
L: language
I: integrated
L: learning
COMMUNICATION
- Introduction
- Purpose
- Strategies
Eliciting + questioning is a way to warm up finding the students’previous knowledge about the topic (a sort of brainstorming)
As a clil teacher, you need to give students various strategies to help learners communicate effectively, by modelling (idioms, sentences,models to follow)and eliciting
C: content
L: language
I: integrated
L: learning
COMMUNICATION
- Introduction
- Purpose
- Strategies
Eliciting + questioning is a way to warm up finding the students’previous knowledge about the topic (a sort of brainstorming)
As a clil teacher, you need to give students various strategies to help learners communicate effectively, by modelling (idioms, sentences,models to follow)and eliciting
5th June:
GENERAL ENGLISH - LESSON 2
THE ELECTIVE - lesson 2
CLIL LESSON 2
GENERAL ENGLISH - LESSON 2
- Describing and comparing pictures
- Listening and comprehension
- Phrasal Verbs
- Conditionals: 1st, 2nd, 3rd and mixed
- Inversion
THE ELECTIVE - lesson 2
- group work: debating ("Official visit of Donald Trump to Ireland")
CLIL LESSON 2
- Productive skills: speaking
- Interactivity
- Productivity
- Purposefulness
- Safety
- Authenticity
- Challenge
6th June:
GENERAL ENGLISH - LESSON 3
THE ELECTIVE - lesson 2
GENERAL ENGLISH - LESSON 3
- Mixed conditional
- Reading and comprehension
- Material reference: letterofnote.com "To my old master"
- Writing task: "letter to a person who is no longer living" or "review of Dublin"
THE ELECTIVE - lesson 2
- group work: debating ("phobias and fears")
- Productive skills: writing
- Process
- Genre
- System
7th June:
GENERAL ENGLISH - LESSON 4
Discussion: Not my type
Write a letter as a reply to a "problem page " of a magazine
GENERAL ENGLISH - LESSON 4
- Inversion : Had I only lived in Britain for a while I would be fluent in English now / Were it not......
- Drama: write a test using Old English language: thou, thee, thy, thine, ist,art, dost
- website reference: The Reduced Shakespeare Company youtube
Discussion: Not my type
Write a letter as a reply to a "problem page " of a magazine
CLIL LESSON 4
The importance of samples
Word banks
Glossary
Chart and related glossary
Language frame
Sources: British Council's material, The Book depositary site
The importance of samples
Word banks
Glossary
Chart and related glossary
Language frame
Sources: British Council's material, The Book depositary site