COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS

1. Why not CLIL?
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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.

2. Why not CLIL?
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- Birth rate /
mortality
- Immigration /
emigration
- Fertility rate
- Demographic
policies: natalist
policies /
antinatalist
policies
- Natural growth
- Migratory
balance
- Child mortality
- Life expectancy
- Population
pyramid
- Population
density
- Standard of
living
- Rich /poor
- Child / young /
adults / old
people: cohort
- Developed
countries / non
developed
countries /
developing
countries
- Women / men
/female/male
- Disease
- Average
- Asking for help: How
can I say…?
- Could you explain again
step 1?
- Is this correct?
- May I help you?
- First af all
- As a result
- Comparing
- Causes and
Consequences
- It is said that…
- Describing: As we can
see…
- High/low
- Base / central body,
trunk / cusp in a
pyramid
- Increase/decrease
- To sum up
- Advantages and
disadvantages