CLIL in the class room: vocabulary and reading skills.

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CLIL in the class room vocabulary and reading
skills.
How can Content and Language Integrated Learning
(CLIL) be utilised in bilingual education to
enhance vocabulary and reading skills assignments
as well as making them more interesting? J
anie McCloughin Robert Smit
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• Energy Facts True or false?
• Hold up your red paper if you think the statement
  is false, green if you think it is true. (Keep
  track of your choices in your booklet on page 9)
• If we could convert 2 to 3 percent of the
  radiation of the sun, we would generate enough
  power to cover a 100 percent of our energy
  consumption.
• America will fully run on solar power in 2050.
• America will pull out of the Middle East if they
  are no longer reliant on fossil fuels.
• The number of square metres needed for a solar
  power plant is considerably more than the space
  needed for a conventional power plant even when
  you include the land used for mining as well.
• The efficiency of a solar panel only needs to be
  20 percent in order to make it economically
  viable to use.

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• Photovoltaic farms are so sensitive that they
  work at night by the light of the moon as well.
• Hot salt is a key ingredient in storing solar
  energy.
• CO2 levels could be reduced by more than 90
  percent if a country switches from fossil to
  solar fuel.
• Americas politicians have recognised the need to
  convert to solar power and have passed all the
  necessary legislation.
• The greatest obstacle to implementing solar
  energy on a national scale in America is funding.

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• Energy Facts
• If we could convert 2 to 3 percent of the
  radiation of the sun, we would generate enough
  power to cover a 100 percent of our energy
  consumption. True.
• America will fully run on solar power in 2050.
  False. (At best America will generate about 35
  percent of its total energy need in 2050).
• America will pull out of the Middle East if they
  are no longer reliant on fossil fuels. Very
  likely true.
• The number of square metres needed for a solar
  power plant is considerably more than the space
  needed for a conventional power plant even when
  you include the land used for mining as well.
  False. (They would need about the same number of
  square metres).
• The efficiency of a solar panel only needs to be
  20 percent in order to make it economically
  viable to use. False. (The efficiency only needs
  to be 14 percent).

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• Photovoltaic farms are so sensitive that they
  work at night by the light of the moon as well.
  False. (Energy needs to be stored in hot salt
  containers or in pressurised underground
  caverns).
• Hot salt is a key ingredient in storing solar
  energy. True.
• CO2 levels could be reduced by more than 90
  percent if a country switches from fossil to
  solar fuel. True.
• Americas politicians have recognised the need to
  convert to solar power and have passed all the
  necessary legislation. False. (Much needs to be
  done in terms of legislation to clear the way).
• The greatest obstacle to implementing solar
  energy on a national scale in America is funding.
  False. (The main obstacle is public awareness).

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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?   An example lesson
on the basis of Content Language Integrated
Learning
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Purpose Audience Structure Text-type
Multi modal thinking skills (multiple
intelligences)
HOTS (Blooms Taxonomy)
Integration (pre-teach concepts and vocab)
Interesting links to real life
clil
Engagement and validation (Affective filter)
The language of your subject from BICS to
CALP - general - subject - academic
Feedback

• Scaffolding
• receptive
• contingent
• transformational

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• Alternative Energy How will we produce
  electrical energy in 2025?
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• A joint lesson series of Physics English A
  TTO 4 Maartens College, Haren January 2013
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• A Solar Grand Plan (Scientific American 2008)
• Groups of five.
• Each student reads his or her part.
• Select all the words you think are important
  (familiar and unfamiliar)
• Write your words down and make a Personal Idiom
  File.
• When you are done, talk to your group and derive
  a top ten.
• Finally, a class vocabulary list will be drawn
  up.
• Student 3 (p15)
  Student 5 (p19)
• Student 1 (p12)
• Student 2 (p13) Student 4
  (p17)

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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?     Class vocabulary
idiom file File will be posted on
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Purpose Audience Structure Text-type
HOTS
Multi modal thinking skills (multiple
intelligences)
Integration (pre-teach concepts and vocab)
Interesting links to real life
clil
The language of your subject from BICS to
CALP - general - subject - academic
Engagement and validation
Feedback

• Scaffolding
• receptive
• contingent
• transformational

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Wordlink Based on the following ten words,
write an encyclopaedia entry about solar energy.
Use no more than 100 words.
renewable
competitive
emissions
efficiency
conventional
photovoltaic
dependence
environment
depleted
caverns
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Purpose Audience Structure Text-type
HOTS
Multi modal thinking skills (multiple
intelligences)
Integration (pre-teach concepts and vocab)
Interesting links to real life
clil
The language of your subject from BICS to
CALP - general - subject - academic
Engagement and validation
Feedback

• Scaffolding
• receptive
• contingent
• transformational

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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?   A joint lesson
series of Physics English A TTO 4 Maartens
College, Haren January 2013
pollutants
caverns
photovoltaic
massive switch
policies
cadmium telluride
infrastructure
arrays
power grid
subsidies
environmentally sensitive
direct current backbone
consumption
greenhouse gases
metropolitan areas
capacity
fossil fuels
compressed air energy storage
heat efficiency
foreign oil interest
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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?   A joint lesson
series of Physics English A TTO 4 Maartens
College, Haren January 2013  
decreased cost
geologic formations
solar radiation
oil dependence
concentrated solar power
autonomy
supply scheme
global tensions
massive trade deficit
annually
domestic jobs increased
cadmium sulfide semiconductor
Molten salt
major technical advances
HVDC
market incentives
10GW
Scale up
Austerity plan
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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?   A joint lesson
series of Physics English A TTO 4 Maartens
College, Haren January 2013  

Scrambled sentence put it back together!
could gas systems, There are like no too. fuel
hydrogen or pollution-control that coal, or
power, costs and a slight biofuels for for
natural in compressed-air oil nuclear although or
those displace, annual only cost
There are no annual fuel or pollution-control
costs like those for coal, oil or nuclear power,
and only a slight cost for natural gas in
compressed-air systems, although hydrogen or
biofuels could displace that, too.
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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?    
Example introduction (from A Solar Grand Plan,
Scientific American 2008).
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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?    
Example introduction (from A Solar Grand Plan,
Scientific American 2008).
Economical point
Environ- mental point
Political point
Environ- mental point
Alternate short and long sentences for style
Indentation
Environmental, possibly ethical point
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Purpose Audience Structure Text-type
HOTS
Multi modal thinking skills (multiple
intelligences)
Integration (pre-teach concepts and vocab)
Interesting links to real life
clil
The language of your subject from BICS to
CALP - general - subject - academic
Engagement and validation
Feedback

• Scaffolding
• receptive
• contingent
• transformational

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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?   A joint lesson
series of Physics English A TTO 4 Maartens
College, Haren January 2013  

Complete three words by adding one. Solar.
.boost Nuclear
storage
Underground facility Compre
ssed-air energy.
energy
Key. Trace.. Periodic
plants Terra . ..shortages
elements
power
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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?   A joint lesson
series of Physics English A TTO 4 Maartens
College, Haren January 2013  

• Transitional Devices.
• We need to push innovative developments
• Solar energy needs to be cheaper
• CO2 level drop
• Making it available to wider public
• Creating a healthier environment
• We have to switch to solar energy

In sum Therefore In addition to Subsequently A
s a result of which
Solar energy needs to be cheaper, therefore we
need to push innovative developments
subsequently making it available to a wider
public. In sum, we have to switch to solar
energy, as a result of which CO2 levels will drop
in addition to creating a healthier environment.
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Alternative Energy How will we produce
electrical energy in 2025?   A joint lesson
series of Physics English A TTO 4 Maartens
College, Haren January 2013  

• Style
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• Grammatical correctness and spelling
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• Vocabulary
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• Balance short / long sentences
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• Efficiency Are you getting to the point?
• Use your booklet as reference for essay
  organisation, descriptors and transitional
  devices.
• Good Luck!
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• Why implement CLIL at Maartens?
• A two way holistic approach. Content subject
  teachers are active language teachers and vice
  versa.
• CLIL techniques should be specifically adopted
  and actively developed as an activating
  methodology throughout the bilingual stream.
• Defining language goals How does English
  facilitate learning in content subjects? language
  A teachers (Dutch and English) should be involved
  in teaching language requirements in such a way
  that languages enhance each others teaching of
  general language (learning) skills and knowledge.
• Proper diagnostics (Dialang).
• There is a need for raised awareness of content
  subject teacher L2 levels and their perception of
  students L2 levels in terms of BICS vs. CALP.
• Implement CLIL in TTO 1.
• From the previous points follow that curricula
  need to be co-developed and facilitated by the
  school.

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• Maaike de Graaf
• Rick de Graaff
• GerritJan Koopman
• Annelet Lukles
• Rosie Tanner
• CLIL Skills CLIL Activities
• Liz Dale
• Wibo van der Es
• Rosie Tanner