Communicative Skills

1. 1
Why not CLIL?
TASK 1
IDENTIFYING THE COMUNICATIVE SKILLS
By completing the following chart you will identy the different communicative skills you want
to develop in your student through the unit plan.
You will write down the CALP, Content Language: which structures or vocabulary words are
you going to teach through the unit plan?
Also you have to think on BICS, Basic Interpersonal Language: which classroom language will
you need during the unit?
And finally the Language through, which sentences will help you and your students to develop
the unit, work in groups, think, express their opinion, etc...
CALP
Content Language
BICS
Basic Interpersonal Language
Language through
Scaffolded Language.
Army, bridges, citizens,
coins, conquer, fight,
rights, trade, walls,
sword, slave, powerful,
catapults, mosaics,
gladiator, temples,
theatres, aqueducts,
coliseum , religion.
- Romans conquered a lot of
territories around…..
- Romans built…..
-Could you repeat , please?
-Is this correct ?
-Could you help me?
- Do you have any questions?
- Do you have any doubts?
-Well done!!
- From my point of view…
- Why did the Romans create
an empire?
- Why did the Roman Empire
originate?
- Valuation of the Roman
legacy and its influence.
- How was Roman society?
- What is the most important
economic activity?