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Module 1 - CLIL Methodology for Primary Schools

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Activity 1 - WHAT IS CLIL

The term CLIL, introduced by David Marsh and Anne Maljers in 1994, is the acronym of Content and Language Integrated Learning, integrated learning of disciplinary contents in a vehicular foreign language, it does not mean teaching the English language, but it implies teaching a non-linguistic discipline (such as history or mathematics) in a foreign language belonging to the student's study plan.

  1. Open the file “Definitions of CLIL” [attached]

While reading the definitions provided make note of the most common terms.

If you want to go a step further:

  1. Read the post in Jeremy Harmer’s blog (https://jeremyharmer.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/to-teach-english-is-human-to-teach-clil-is-divine/) and answer the question he asks at the end of the post.