The presentation of a CLIL lesson created within the framawork of an erasmus+ course in Dublin, Ireland.

1. Snakes in Ireland
Vasiliki Iliadou
IntaEkte (Latvia)
Simone Remmers (Germany)
Alrksandra Kiersztyn (Poland)

2. CLIL is
• a European answer to solve the problem of
learning content and language together
• Scaffolding is important in every stage of
leaning, even in assessment
• Focus on content rather than on language
accuracy
• CLIL – Children Like Interesting Lessons and
they achieve better results in language
learning

4. Snakes and Ireland
• https://padlet.com/intaekte/ozu2uhp7vlkv

5. Snake is mainly in the Celtic culture a symbol
of a life after death. It is due to the reason
because this animal lives mostly under the
ground. For example the God Cernunnos holds
in one hand this animal and for this reason
Cernunnos is sometimes considered as a guide
to the other world.

6. • The pre-Christian sculpture in
Ireland (pictured) features
twining, opposite snakes
culminating in a cross and circle.
Other monuments feature crossed
snakes leading to an open hand.
• In all of these images, the paired
snakes are moving, crossing each
other, and leading to a circle,
sometimes a winged orb. There is
a sense of increasing power and
enlightenment.

8. Celtic Knot Patterns
• Celtic symbols appeared in art thousands of
years before Christianity and can be found in
the earliest art forms around the world. In the
Celtic world, simple knot work was used,
mainly spirals, key patterns and step patterns.
The arrival of Christianity in Ireland played a
central role in the development of Celtic
symbolism, the design of more intricate and
complex patterns,and the widerspread use of
Celtic knots.

9. • Spirals appear in early cave art and
petroglyphs throughout the world, and are
one of the earliest and most prevalent
symbols in the earliest art work. They are
often a continuous line forming multiple
circles. Spirals are also found in the earliest
drawings of animals – tails or horns, for
example. And we cannot forget the snake
spiral, also a symbol in early art. The basic
spiral is circular and moves clockwise. Square-
shaped spiral structures and mazes also
appear throughout early and later art, such as
the Book of Kells.

10. Book of Kells