CLIL has been introduced to the school for many years now and it’s becoming more and more rooted. It’s carried out in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades.

So, What is CLIL?

CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning and refers to teaching subjects such as science, history and geography to students through a foreign language.

Some important facts about CLIL are:

1. Language as the vehicle. Language occurs naturally in the discourse frames associated with the conceptual content, and as a result of the communicative exchanges required by task-based methodology.
2. Activity types: There are four activity types best suited to CLIL practice.
   These are:
   a) Activities to enhance peer communication
   b) Activities to help develop reading strategies
   c) Activities to guide student production
   d) Activities to engage higher cognitive skills(make students think – offer a variety of procedural opportunities for employing a range of operations)

So, hands-on activities are the ones mostly used in CLIL sessions. Students manipulate, experiment, and come to conclusions from classroom activities. And the contents worked on are related to those working with the teacher in the science lessons. All those contents are supported by New Sites platforms created this school year, where students have a variety of videos, games and extra information to review and/or expand their knowledge.

Enjoy the student’s experiences watching the video attached.