CLIL (Content and language Integrated Learning) can be a highly motivating, cognitively engaging, and rewarding approach both for students and for teachers of English. This is a different way of learning, where English and various subjects are intertwined, thus making English a medium for instruction. CLIL methodology develops higher-order skills by involving learners in activities in which they have to apply these skills (such as creative thinking, critical evaluation, or hypothesizing). During this presentation I will share my experience and my findings about teaching History through English to a group of teenagers (13-14 years old). I will speak about selecting and developing materials for CLIL curriculum and using project work in the classroom. I will briefly explain how to use digital media in the physical environment of the classroom, i.e. integrating augmented reality (AR) technology to create "talking posters". Hopefully, this practical guidance on how to make CLIL a reality will serve as a springboard to enable you to design your own CLIL lessons and expand repertoire of classroom techniques

1. Teaching History
through English
–a CLIL approach

2. Irina Malinina
• 20 years in ELT
• TeacherTrainer certificate from Norwich Institute for
Language Education
Currently freelance EFL teacher
TeacherTrainer

7. http://www.anglotopia.net/british-history/what-would-henry-viii-and-other-historical-figures-look-like-today/
Henry VIII
What would they look like today?
Elizabeth I

8. Lack of materials

9. Subject-specific vocabulary
• Heir
• Sovereign
• Catholics
• Protestants
• Throne
• To rule
• Plot
• Surveillance
• Carry out sentence
• Courtiers
• Be burnt at stake
• Be executed
• Be found guilty
• Sign the death warrant

10. LOTS and HOTS
LOTS:
• Ordering (Write the dates on the timeline
in the order of when they happened)
• Remembering (How many Protestants were
burnt at stake during Mary I’s reign?)
• Defining (Why was Mary I nicknamed
“Bloody Mary”?)
• Identifying (Name the country where the
Reformation began)
etc

11. HOTS
• Reasoning
How and why did Henry decide to break with
Rome?
In your answer you should:
- Give your opinion of the most important
reason
- Identify and explain other reasons
- Support your answer with facts and figures

12. Task-based Learning

14. Debates Club
• This House believes that Mary Stuart
should be executed
• This House believes that Mary Stuart
should be forgiven

15. Video

16. Storytelling

20. • Everything is interrelated and interwoven
• Seeing a bigger picture
• Storytelling skills
• Collaborative tasks
• Cognitive challenge
Caveats

21. Creating a “talking poster”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ_UEfoNzbI

22. Contacts
Irina Malinina
+7 903 618 20 69
englishandexams@yandex.ru
https://www.facebook.com/englishandexams