• This course is available in: Dublin, Florence, Ghent, Lisbon, Rome
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Have you ever thought about integrating EU matters into your language lessons? Would you like to explain the European Union (EU) to your students, but you wonder how to do it effectively? Then this course is for you! CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is a method that integrates specific techniques in the design of second-language learning activities and authentic content (i.e., content from either academic or non-academic subjects) to encourage learning in two areas. CLIL has been shown to be an effective strategy to engage students and increase motivation by combining content and language learning into classroom lessons. As a participant in the course, you will learn how to use CLIL effectively to integrate EU-related topics into your curriculum. In particular, the course will illustrate the principles of CLIL, and give time to participants to practice activities and create their own relevant tasks that facilitate learning. The course is valuable for both teachers of all academic subjects, who would like to introduce appropriate EU content in their lessons, and for foreign language teachers aiming to engage their students with discussion and tasks related to the EU. Significantly, and although the course will be in English, the CLIL method it proposes is valid in the teaching of any foreign language. Through individual, pair, group, team, and whole class work and discussion, participants will experience first-hand how CLIL promotes interdisciplinary learning using the four skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) for non-native speakers of a language at various proficiency levels. Participants will also learn how to select appropriate and already p...read more.