Encouraging speaking in CLIL

Lollies Write your name on a lollipop stick and give it to Rosie.

Speaking activity 1 Warmer: New words 1.On your sticker, write your name and a word or phrase you have recently taught your students that you think your colleagues do not know. 2.Walk around and get to know your colleagues and their words. Rosie Tanner Education Consultant3

Aims We Are Learning To (WALT)… Rosie Tanner Education Consultant4 analyze the problems and challenges facing CLIL teachers and learners in relation to speaking encourage CLIL learners to speak (more) design our own CLIL speaking activities understand why spoken output is important in a CLIL lesson understand what makes effective speaking activities for CLIL

Speaking activities Rosie Tanner Education Consultant5 1.New words (warmer) 2.Lollipop sticks 3.CLIL ball (science & maths) 4.Think, pair, share (padlet.com) 5.Information gap (history) 6.Cells: Describe and draw: information gap (biology) 7.Speaking board game (geography)

Speaking activity 2: Think, pair, share: padlet.com 1.What is your burning question about teaching speaking? Think individually (think) 2.In pairs, write one question together on your whiteboard (pair) 3.Share your questions on padlet (share)padlet Rosie Tanner Education Consultant6

Speaking activity 3: The CLIL ball (planets, (in)vertebrates)

Example CLIL Ball for ART

Speaking activity 4: Information gap (history) Who is this? What do you know about Benjamin Franklin? He was a polymath. Rosie Tanner Education Consultant9

Benjamin Franklin 1.As together, Bs together. Write down the questions you need to make to complete the gaps in your text. 2.Pairs (AB). Ask and answer your questions. Rosie Tanner Education Consultant10

Speaking activity 5: Board game Rosie Tanner Education Consultant11 In small groups, play the speaking board game. Choose a topic: flooding teaching speaking controversial topics general (easy) topics.

Speaking activity 6: Information gaps (biology – cells) 1.Half the class is A, the other half B. 2.Rehearse your description of your drawing together. 3.Pairs: A and B. A describes their drawing to B. B draws. 4.Swap. B describes their drawing to A. A draws. Rosie Tanner Education Consultant12

Overview speaking activities Rosie Tanner Education Consultant13 1.New words (warmer) 2.Lollipop sticks 3.CLIL ball (science & maths) 4.Think, pair, share (padlet.com) 5.Information gap (history) 6.Cells: Describe and draw: information gap (biology) 7.Speaking board game (geography)

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Characteristics of a successful speaking activity for CLIL Rosie Tanner Education Consultant15

COLLABORATION/INTERACTION BETWEEN STUDENTS Learners work together in order to get better joint results than they could on their own. Enables more engagement with the task 16

PERSONALIZATION Allowing for contributions that reflect personal taste, experience, opinion etc. My favourite … I remember … Agree / disagree … Find someone who… 17

REALISTIC/AUTHENTIC Students communicate about REAL things that are meaningful to them. 18

INFORMATION GAPS 1.Personal 2.Factual 3.Opinion 19

STUDENTS KNOW WHAT TO SAY Students have the content they need Students have the language they need Important to rehearse first sometimes 20

STUDENTS THINK More ideas are retained from a lesson where students have had an opportunity to discuss and reflect on the topic When students have ‘thinking time’, the quality of their responses improves 21

OPEN-ENDED Many possible right answers, so that: 1.More learners can get to respond. 2.Learners can respond at different levels 22

Application of a speaking activity Rosie Tanner Education Consultant23 1.New words (warmer) 2.Lollipop sticks 3.CLIL ball (science & maths) 4.Think, pair, share (padlet.com) 5.Information gap (history) 6.Cells: Describe and draw: information gap (biology) 7.Speaking board game (geography)

CLIL planning wheel Rosie Tanner Education Consultant24

Back to your burning questionsburning questions Rosie Tanner Education Consultant25

Speaking in CLIL: evaluation Together, write a short comment about your experience of this workshop on your whiteboard. WRITE BIG!! Then hold your board up. Rosie Tanner Education Consultant26

Thank you! CLIL Activities. Liz Dale & Rosie Tanner. CUP. Rosie Tanner Education Consultant27