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Our blog on other sites

Hello there, surfing the internet I found that a great site (Bilingual Education Project), has linked our blog. This is great news! We want our blog to be a source where other people can share there experiences and find some answers to the issues that CLIL methodology involves.
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Introducing concept mapping

1animated16-thumb.gifThinking with Pictures. Mind mapping for children.

In this website (http://www.logo.com/twp/teaching_resources.html) you will find a range of practical teaching resources, which will help you to introduce young children to the ideas of concept mapping and get them started building their own maps. All of the following resources have been created for you to use FREELY with Thinking with Pictures.

These resources are ideal for group, or whole class activities, using a Whiteboard.

Each consists of a teacher’s booklet, in PDF format, which is accompanied by mapping files that can be opened in Thinking with Pictures.

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Uncovering CLIL – Language showers

(great article, form a great book)

The many faces of CLIL
CLIL is an umbrella term covering a dozen or more educational approaches (eg immersion, bilingual education, multilingual
education, language showers and enriched language programmes). What is new about CLIL is that it synthesizes and
provides a flexible way of applying the knowledge learned from these various approaches. The flexibility of the approach is,
above all, evident in the amount of time devoted to teaching or learning through the second language. CLIL allows for
low- to high-intensity exposure to teaching/learning through a second language. The approach can also be used for
short-term high-intensity exposure (see figure below). (click on the PDF file for more)

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