Training Activity

• Maatschappijkunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Lauren Hunt

CLIL training activity: Encouraging Output

 

Personal aims:

To provide clear instructions

To create materials & activities that are suitable for the audience

What are the qualities that make a good speaker?

Applications in CLIL: Exploratory talk 

If learners make their reasoning more explicit, they learn more.

(Mercer 2000)

Encouraging output: Speaking

Activity: The Lifeboat Debate 

You are on a sinking ship! 

You and 6 others have made in onto the last lifeboat

However

The lifeboat cannot hold all the weight and can only take 5* of you to shore

Any more people and it is certain to sink!

Which of you deserves to be saved? 

*Can be changed to suit the size of the group

Applications in CLIL: Effective Speaking Tasks

Authenticity: The student is the speaker, topics are related to their needs, everyday life and interest the learner

Active learning: The student talks more, rephrase outcomes, assess progress, cooperate and creates discussion. The teacher acts as a guide.

Your task:

1. Each of you will be given a role (see chat)
   
2. Read your role card &  spend a few minutes* thinking about what you will say. 
3. One by one, tell the others in the group who you are and why you should stay in the lifeboat. 
   
4. Be imaginative and give lots of reasons. 
   
5. After each person has spoken, you can ask each other questions.
   

*This will be made shorter for training purposes! 

Who are you voting OFF the boat?

Be prepared to justify your decision.

Dirk Exploratory talk

Kim Information gaps

Ronald Glossaries & PIF lists

Marsha Multimodal & varied input

Marley Rubrics

Laura De Jager Effective questioning

Honorine Scaffolding

Over to you:

Think about a group of people, objects or solutions that relate to a topic in your subject. 

Write down your 'lifeboat candidates' ideas.

Examples:

Maths: six shapes, six types of graph

PE: six sports, six pieces of sport equipment

History: six famous leaders, six inventions, six gods, six roles in ancient society

Art & design: six tools, artists or designers

Economics: six important economists, six entrepreneurs

Science: six discoveries, famous scientists

Thank you

Any questions?

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Personal aims:

To provide clear instructions

To create materials & activities that are suitable for the audience

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