CLIL. ACTIVITIES FOR SHARING
Card #3
Planning a Journey [SPEAKING]
Grade
No. students
No. Lessons
Lesson
Description
Smart Goal
Language Smart
Goal
Main Technique
Technique
description
Complexity for
teachers
2th (13-14 years) Subject
History (Social studies)
29
Unit
Peninsular kingdoms
1 (50 min)
Imagine you are going to walk the Camino de Santiago. In the middle
Ages, most pilgrims took the same route through Burgos and Leon.
However, nowadays there are several routes to choose from.
Go to: www.tiching.com/743164, choose a route and plan your journey.
Think about what you will take with you, bearing in mind that you will
have to carry it all on your back.
a. Recognize Camino de Santiago as an important commercial and
cultural route.
a. Use structures to plan a journey and decide what to take.
Reading Comprehension. Writing.
Reading Comprehension is an individual's ability to comprehend text is
influenced by their traits and skills, one of which is the ability to make
inferences.
Medium
Steps
1 Divide students into 2-person groups. The groups should be diverse in
terms of gender, ethnicity, race, and ability.
2 Students read the text. Teacher project the text at the same time.
3 Students underlying vocabulary they do not know. Students firstly try to
infer the meaning or ask to the teacher.
4 Choosing a route: In pairs, students write their choice (route) and
planning their journey.
5 Deciding what to take: in pairs: students think about what they will take
with them.
7 At the end, students read their choice and planning.
Strengths
Weaknesses
Students develop their reading comprehension and writing. They know how to
do it because they are used to doing that in English class.
It really difficult to control if student are interacting in English or in their mother
tongue. Students may need more time to assimilate the text and write.
4