CLIL

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CLIL

• A teaching module on poetry

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Where? When?What?

• I teach in a Technical High School ( ITAS
  Deledda) in Trieste
• This module is planned for a second year class
• It may be carried out in the second part of the
  year
• It is a part of a macro-unit on poetry
• The first part of the macro unit will be
  developed in the Italian language
• This Clil module on poetry consists of two parts

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What? ( continues)

• in the first part, students will be asked to
  create a semantic area in English around a word,
  as water, seaand to create metaphors on some
  abstract concepts ( two or three sessions)
• The second part is dedicated to explain the
  message of some poems and to make a comparison
  between them ( three hours )
• Students will be asked to complete some grids or
  cloze tests in order to understand the topics and
  the message of the poems

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Why?

• The purpose of this unit is to improve some
  abilities in the students
• To learn some technical terms both in Italian and
  in English
• To use freely their imagination to create
  metaphors, using English terms
• To read, analyse and understand some simple
  poems, and to compare them to similar poems in
  Italian
• To write some poems in English

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How?

• I ll start my Clil-unit after three/four
  lessons in which Ill have already introduced the
  contents of the unit on poetry and Ill have
  given some essential and general concepts about
  it
• Materials which will be used to organise the
  lesson are brain storming technique, power
  point presentation, texts,grids
• Students will practice on true/false tests, on
  cloze tests and on matching answers
• Finally, students will be stimulated to write
  some short poems in English

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Conclusions

• I hope that this first attempt will be satisfying
  to me and to my class for many reasons
• students and I will be stimulated to communicate
  and to express ourselves in English, without
  bothering about grammar
• the exercises and some tests will be proposed in
  a cooperative- learning situation
• students will improve their abilities in
  communication and in understanding each other
• students will be encouraged to catch and to
  express the central meaning of an oral or written
  text