Wednesday December 9^th 2009

Dear colleagues,

As you read this, the 15th Annual International Conference on Climate Change is taking place in Copenhagen, and the subject is not far from all of our minds. Onestopclil has also been thinking about our planet and this month we have some great new content with much of it along this theme!

Climate change themed teaching ideas

In his editorial message this month, Keith Kelly touches on the wealth of material that exists on onestopclil already, organising them in terms of what knowledge and skills you can practice in your classroom on the topic of climate change. Don't forget to check out the great section on using the web to research and the link through to the climate change webquest. Also be sure to download the new Energy Pairs resources from the Science Museum and have your students thinking about natural sources of energy.

Vocabulary and Grammar 

Make sure you have a look at the new subject-specific wordlist on Weather and Climate. Providing students with a definition and often an example sentence to make the meaning even clearer; these fully editable wordlists are perfect for using as glossaries, noting translations in your own language and adding personally meaningful sentences.

If a grammar activity about countable vs. uncountable nouns is exactly what you are after, be sure to also download the new spot the difference pair-work activity that uses plenty of ecology and environmental vocabulary.
  

New Mathematics and History resources

Familiarise your students with the similarities and differences between sine and cosine graphs and practise important mathematical and language skills in listening and writing with these new sine and cosine graph resources and teacher's notes from the winner of the recent lesson share competition. Or if History is more up your street, try out our latest question loop activity all about the Middle Ages with your class. Do you know what happeneed to Otto I of Germany in 962?

CLIL Teacher magazine

This month we are delighted to bring you the third in the series of Language for CLIL articles from Kay Bentley in association with Cambridge ESOL. This month we are looking at Code Switching and how this relates to CLIL and to the TKT: CLIL. Also, be sure to have your say on using the mother tongue in the CLIL classroom as a part of the CLIL Café and also on the discussion forum.

Don't forget to read the interesting review of the recent LINC Conference held by the University of Turku, Finland. The conference focused on Learning, Innovation and Creativity in CLIL and marked the ending of a 3-year project on Language in Content Instruction. 

With best wishes, The Onestopclil Team