CLIL MODULE
FOR THE FOURTH CLASS
OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL
Activity 1) Brainstorming (elicitazione delle preconoscenze – fase globale)
What day is it today?
What’s the weather like?
The teacher draws a grid on the blackboard and asks date and weather of the days before.
25th
26th
27th
28th
29th
…
September
September
September
September
September
….
SATURDAY SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
…..
….
Changeable
Rainy
…
?
?
….
?
?
She completes the grid and draws the weather of the day and of the days before.
Then she asks for the date of the next days… and for the weather…
Children can tell the date (revision
days of the week) but they can’t tell the weather, because
it is up to the weather forecast (they say “meteo”).
Teacher says that they can predict the weather with an instrument. What is it?
It’ the barometer.
They can make a barometer and forecast the weather.
Making a barometer
Activity 2) Global - Content and language Let’s see the video
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/11/how_to_make_a_barometer_in_few.php
Activity 3) Analisys - Content focus Let’s read the instructions
http://www.sercc.com/education_files/barometer.pdf
Activity 4) Analisys – Language focus Let’s find out the weather words (LESSICO)
FLASHCARDS
http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards/weather.php
BINGO - BOARD GAMES
WORDSEARCH
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/weather%20word%20search%20easy.pdf
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/the%20weather%20wordsearch.pdf
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/weather%20word%20search%20difficult.pdf
CROSSWORDS
http://homeschooling.about.com/library/weathercross.pdf
VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES
http://homeschooling.about.com/library/weathervocab.pdf
http://www.mesenglish.com/worksheets/flashcards/files/weather_spaghetti.pdf
http://www.mesenglish.com/worksheets/flashcards/files/weather_spelling.pdf
Activity 5) Analisys CONTENT FOCUS Let’s write down the instructions Testo
regolativo
See: Grid with steps (Tab. 1)
Activity 6) Let’s complete the mind map (fill in the words)
See: pictures with maps and schemes
Activity 7) LANGUAGE FOCUS Let’s read a story (ASPETTO FONOLOGICO –
LESSICALE)
Book: Elmer’s weather By David Mc Kee, Andersen Press 1994
Activity 8 ) Let’s sing the weather song (ASPETTO FONOLOGICO)
See Class Book: Melidor and friends 4 Modern Languages
Activity 9) Syntesis CONTENT AND LANGUAGE FOCUS Write the weather of the week
(ASPETTO FUNZIONALE)
Activity 10) Weather words: crossword
Activity 11) The weather in Great Britain
Activity 12) Assessment: CONTENT AND LANGUAGE FOCUS The weather forecast in our
region (PODCAST /VIDEO)