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Onestopclil - The Resource Bank for CLIL Teachers

Looking for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) resources? 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.

We are delighted to announce that from January 2010 onestopclil is joining forces with onestopenglish providing you with the onestop shop for all your CLIL and EFL resources. What a great way to start the New Year! How will this affect you? Find out more here. In the meantime we have festive treats in store with a selection of seasonal resources on onestopclil - see below.

For new content, our focus this month is on climate change. Get your students to join the debate - check our what's new below and click onto Keith Kelly's editorial: Climate Change on the Agenda - Keith has picked out the best environmental resources on onestopclil to help you bring the debate to your classroom.

New this month!

Weather and Climate

Over two hundred weather and climate words from ‘affect’ to ‘wispy’! Definitions and contextual sentences in clear English provide a very useful record of essential vocabulary for you and your students.

Spot the Ecological Difference - Worksheet and Teacher's Notes

In this ecological information exchange activity students ask and answer questions about their pictures of a busy street scene. Vocabulary provided includes: traffic, trees, pure water, solar power and clean air. Includes focused practice of there is/there are and many/much/a lot of.

Sine and Cosine Graphs - Worksheet and Teacher's Notes

This excellent 45-minute lesson focuses on the similarities and differences between sine and cosine graphs. Students examine the graphs and write descriptions of them with language guidance from the teacher. Practises giving accurate information in written form, listening to information about graphs and teaches vocabulary associated with graphs.

Code switching

Third in the series on Language for CLIL. What is code-switching and what are the benefits for students in the CLIL classroom?

NEW! Energy Pairs – Experiment Sheet

This simple experiment reinforces vocabulary and concepts associated with energy. Students match sentences halves to make statements on energy or ‘energy pairs’.

Conference report: LINC Conference on Learning, Innovation & Creativity in CLIL

Aleksandra Zaparucha, Poland gives an excellent overview of the LINC conference in Turku, Finland 24-26 September 2009

NEW! Energy Pairs - Worksheet and Teacher's Notes

Matching and gap-fill activities help students revise and consolidate concepts connected to energy, including renewable and non-renewable sources and how we use energy in our everyday lives. Students can then conduct an energy survey or design an energy poster. Key vocabulary and practical teacher’s notes are included.

Climate change on the agenda

In the last editorial of 2009 Keith Kelly looks at how the resources on onestopclil help students to understand and take part in the climate change debate.

New Year

What do you do on New Year’s Eve? Do you watch fireworks? Do you make a resolution? Young learners label pictures, circle the correct words to describe their New Year celebrations, and draw and label their favourite New Year’s Eve activity, while practising sentence formation and the use of direct objects.

CLIL events

Find out about CLIL events around the world including information on a call for particpation in CLIL 2010: In Pursuit of Excellence. This major bi-annual CLIL event is organized by Universities of Eichstatt (Germany) and Jyväskylä (Finland), in conjunction with CCN (Lifelong Learning Programme).

Question Loop Speaking Activity - The Middle Ages - Secondary

Twenty-three question loops on terms associated with the Middle Ages including verbs such as capture, invade, conquer and rule, as well as nouns such as territory, plague, crusader and monarch.

Onestopclil and onestopenglish join forces: How does this affect me?

This question and answer section will help you understand how the merger of onestopclil and onestopenglish will affect you.

Christmas

Young learners match Christmas words such as ‘mistletoe’ and ‘candles’ to pictures, decorate and describe a Christmas tree, and create their own Advent calendar to count down to Christmas. The activities teach about the holiday’s traditions while consolidating the singular and plural forms of the verb 'be’.