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Onestopclil - The Resource Bank for CLIL Teachers

Looking for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) resources to use in your English or subject lessons? Welcome to onestopclil.com – the resource site for teachers following CLIL, bilingual and immersion programs.

Onestopclil.com is a subscription site for English Language and subject teachers using English as the medium of instruction. Our aim is simple: we want to provide you with the resources and the support to help you create inspirational CLIL lessons.

The content-based resources – worksheets, animations, audio, and IWB material – all include comprehensive language support. Methodology articles, teaching tips and lesson ideas help you to plan your lessons.

Why not try some of the resources for free and read the CLIL Teacher Magazine for the latest CLIL news.

Don’t forget to check out the Lesson Share Competition winners and the latest on the CLIL Debate in the CLIL Teacher Magazine.

Highlights from this edition of onestopclil

Ancient Greece

These resources explore ancient Athens: its organisations, institutions, and what Athenian democracy meant for a burgeoning population in one of the most powerful cities in Greece.

Biology - an introduction

A short history of biology tracks the study of life through the ages, showing our fascination with the living world around us, from the ancient Egyptians to Charles Darwin's theories and the study of DNA. The second reading text is a letter from a professor of biology, spelling out the four branches of this science and taking students through different career options. Listening exercises focuses on the nature of germs and climate change.

Environment - Integrated Skills CLIL Lesson

In this lesson students learn about important environmental issues: recycling in the UK, saving water in the garden and pollution. A collaborative project asks students to prepare a presentation on pollution. Useful phrases, tips for effective reading and writing and vocabulary builder activities are also included. The listening exercise focuses on water scarcity.

Introductions to science

CLIL lessons on biology, chemistry, physics and the study of electricity - all with extensive language support and listening exercises

Conference report: Innovations in Teaching Children and Teenagers, IATEFL SIG Milan, 20-23 March 2009

Amanda Holmbrook provides a summary of the opening plenary session of the IATEFL Special Interest Group on CLIL in Milan, given by Richard Johnstone.

Bilingual schools in Argentina: Has CLIL always been around?

Laura Renart, a teacher and teacher trainer, shares her insights into bilingual education in Argentina.

Video reactions to the CLIL Debate held in Cardiff at the IATEFL 2009 conference

Watch interviews with CLIL teachers recorded after the CLIL debate at IATEFL

Sea action

Teach students how load is carried along the sea shore by a process called ‘longshore drift’.

The water cycle

Demonstrate to the geography class how the water cycle works while teaching key subject vocabulary such as vapour, droplets, precipitation and condensation.

Implementing CLIL: Dangers of a top-down only approach

In this article Dr. Brian Bielenberg explores the advantages and disadvantages of top-down and bottom-up approaches to initiating CLIL programs, concluding with a discussion of a hybrid approach that appears to provide the best possibility for successful and sustainable CLIL implementation.

Editorial: CLIL's international appeal

May is a full and varied issue with contributions from all over the world, demonstrating the true international and varied appeal of CLIL!

Transcript of the CLIL Debate, IATEFL 09, Cardiff

What was said at the CLIL debate in Cardiff? Here you can read the complete transcript.

Business - Integrated Skills CLIL Lesson

This lesson deals with different aspects of business: travel, negotiations, buying and selling, advertising, slogans and currency. Role-play dialogue is included, as is a fun collaborative project for the whole ‘business class’. Includes tips for effective writing and listening, consolidation and vocabulary builder activities, useful phrases and a listening exercise on making a business phonecall.

Using Video in the CLIL Classroom

Keith Kelly gives tips on using transcripts with video clips (and adding subtitles to video) as well as a quick step-by-step guide to inserting subtitles into film using Movie Maker.

Art and Drawing - Integrated Skills CLIL Lesson

This fascinating lesson focuses on perspective: students read an illustrated text on perspective in drawing, followed by true/false and vocabulary exercises. A listening exercise focuses on Claude Monet and Impressionism; a writing exercise gets students to recreate a text on the Parthenon. A pairwork collaborative project gets students to describe works of art to each other using useful phrases. Includes effective writing and reading tips, teacher’s notes and an answer key.

Teaching tips: Using video in the classroom

Keith Kelly provides us with some useful tips and practical ideas for using video in the classroom.

CLIL in the Czech Republic: Zdenek Vasicek

Zdenek Vasicek, a music teacher in Tisnov, shares his experiences of teaching CLIL in the Czech Republic.

Tereza Benesova - Pythagoras' Theorem

This varied and fascinating lesson enables students to fully understand Pythagoras’ theorem, solve mathematical problems in English and collaborate effectively in groups. Students begin by matching shapes with their English names before completing a crossword, reconstructing a picture of Pythagoras and labelling a right-angled triangle. The lesson also includes a reading text on Pythagoras with comprehension questions, a language focus exercise on using the zero conditional, and pronunciation practice. Includes shapes cut outs and comprehensive teacher’s notes, including the script and diagrams for teachers to give a talk on Pythagoras.

Young Learners Science – Question Loop Reading/Speaking/Listening Activities

Your pupils will love these easy, fun and effective speaking activities that consolidate knowledge of popular CLIL topics such as animals, the human body and plants.

Geography animations

These animations and illustrated accompanying worksheets teach secondary students about key CLIL topics in geography: acid rain, the movement of the sea, the water cycle and secondary economic activity.

The Stars, the Sun and the Moon

How many years till the sun burns out? Why are stars like human beings? What has ‘wax’ got to do with the moon? Students learn the answers to these questions through pairwork, a listening exercise entitled ‘Under the Milky Way’, and two reading exercises entitled: ‘The sun’ and ‘Phases of the moon’. With the help of two Useful Language boxes, lower intermediate will find these worksheets accessible yet challenging.

Fielded discussion on CLIL: CLIL Revisited

The Young Learners and Teenagers email discussion group is housed in yahoogroups and is famous for its activity and energy in many educational contexts and so it was a pleasure to lead a fielded discussion on the area of CLIL from Monday April 20th to Friday April 24th, 2009.

The CLIL Debate: How the audience at IATEFL voted

Thank you to everyone who came and took part in the CLIL Debate at IATEFL in Cardiff. Here are the results of the vote!

Chemistry - an introduction

Students are introduced to this central science via a reading text and learn about three developments that give us the definition of chemistry: fire, the nature of matter itself, and Mendeleev’s all important table. A second reading text looks at the type of careers available to a chemistry student. Listening exercises include a chemist talking about chemical processes and another chemist talking about his job.

The CLIL Debate Survey Results

The results of the CLIL Debate survey carried out in March on onestopenglish and onestopclil offer interesting insights into what CLIL and EFL teachers around the world think about whether CLIL complements or compromises English Language Teaching.

Northern CLIL: Greetings from Turku, Finland

Hanna Laakio and Eija Inberg, two primary school teachers from Puolala School, tell us about the joys and challenges of teaching a CLIL programme in Turku, Finland.

Review: Uncovering CLIL, onestopclil, Macmillan Vocabulary Practice Series – Science

its-teachers, an online magazine for English Language teachers, has reviewed onestopclil, Uncovering CLIL and Macmillan Vocabulary Practice Series – Science.

CLIL and Competence-based learning a practical example: INEBI and BHINEBI

In this article the author explores the rationale behind CLIL education programs setting INEBI and BHINEBI as examples of learning integration in the Basque Country, Spain.

Watch video of the CLIL panel at the IATEFL CLIL debate in Cardiff - April 2009

Peeter Mehisto, David Graddol, Mina Patel, Hugo Beatens-Beardsmore and Sue Hughes give their individual perspectives on CLIL at the live IATEFL debate.

Secondary Science – Question Loop Reading/Speaking/Listening Activities

Go round and round in circles in a good way! Question loop activities are a great way of getting students thinking, listening and talking about pretty much any topic under the sun – they work particularly well for scientific terminology.

Acid Rain

How do we define acid rain? What causes it? What damage does it do? Show students how acid rain is formed and the harm it does to our environment in this set of useful CLIL resources.

Yuliya Ivanova - Math and Logic: Deduction and Speculation

This comprehensive lesson by Yuliya Ivanova is designed to develop and encourage students' logical thinking. Students first complete a number of vocabulary-building activities to prepare them for the reading task: a puzzling tale which will challenge their ability to deduce and speculate.

Experiments

Get hands on with these fun experiments from the Science Museum in London.

Nutrition - Integrated Skills CLIL Lesson

You are what you eat. In this lesson, students are encouraged to talk about the kinds of food they eat, and the nutritional value of their diets. The food pyramid is given as a guide for healthy eating. Contains reading, speaking, listening and writing exercises as well as a collaborative project. Also includes tips for effective reading, writing, useful phrases and a crossword. A listening exercise gets students to fill in pie charts with nutritional information.

Computers - Integrated Skills CLIL Lesson

A reading text introduces students to the components of a computer and includes a computer diagram to label. A listening exercise narrates the history of computing. Useful phrases for when talking about computers, effective reading and writing tips, vocabulary builder exercises and three project ideas are also included.