The document describes how to incorporate cooperative learning techniques into a unit plan. It recommends organizing students into groups of four. Two cooperative learning techniques are described: jigsaw technique and small group discussion/whole group. For the jigsaw technique, each student researches a different part of the topic and then shares their expertise with their home group. The small group discussion technique has student groups discuss and debate the truth of several statements and then share their conclusions with the whole class.

1. Why not CLIL?
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TASK 2
Using Cooperative Learning in your Unit Plan.
Once you have clear ideas about your topic it is time to think how are you going to teach it and
work with your students. Complete the following chart to introduce Cooperative Learning.
You are going to describe how are you going to organize your students in the class: pairs,
groups of three or four, whole group, ……
And then you have to choose two cooperative learning techniques you will introduce into your
unit and tell us how you are going to work with them: what task are you going to use using
them.
Class Organization: groups of four

2. Why not CLIL?
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Cooperative Learning Technique 1: jigsaw
Task you are going to work: describing and explining Evolution of the world
population.
- Every student has a Stage (part of the graphic) to describe and a text with
information about this Stage in order to identify the causes for the birth
and death rates
- Time to taking notes
- All students with the same Stage put together (expert groups) and share
information
- Everybody come back to the home group and complete the hands on
activities like filling a contents table.
HOME GROUPS EXPERT GROUPS
- 1. Stage 1
- 2. Stage 2
- 3. Stage 3
- 4. Stage 4
- Stage 1 all together and so on…

3. Why not CLIL?
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Cooperative Learning Technique 2: small group discussion/ whole group
Task you are going to work: Discuss and decide whether the following statements are
true or not and argue why with your Home group. Then We are going to put in
common with the rest of the class (maybe we can introduce score staff…)