This document provides a template for designing a CLIL didactic unit for a physical education class on swimming. The unit aims to teach 2nd year high school students about the main swimming strokes, improve cardiovascular endurance, and understand the health benefits of swimming. Key elements of the unit include learning objectives, subject content on swimming rules and strokes, language content on relevant vocabulary, contextual elements on swimming culture, cognitive processes, tasks like a wiki project and peer assessment, activities using apps and videos, methodology on class organization and timing in the swimming pool, resources, competencies addressed, and evaluation criteria.

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Template to design a CLIL didactic unit
Subject: Physical Education Teacher:Narciso Marín Marín
Title of the Unit “Swimming: main strokes Course / Level 2nd
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1. Learning outcomes
/ Evaluation criteria
• To know main rules of swimming as sport.
• Improve pupils’ cardiovascular endurance
• To learn skills related with front crawl, backstroke and
breaststroke. Breathing, floating, diving and pulling/pushing.
• To understand the health benefits when training in a swimming
pool.
• To use swimming as a good form of leisure and entertainment.
2. Subject Content • Swimming rules.
• Front Crawl: body position, breathing, arms coordination and
leg kicking.
• Back Crawl: body position, arms coordination and leg kicking.
• Breast Stroke: Arm/leg coordination, arm stroke, leg stroke
and body position.
• Fitness and swimming: health benefits.
3. Language Content / Communication
Vocabulary Nouns: Body vocabulary, pool equipment (pull buoys, pool
noodles, etc)
Verbs: breath, turn, get in, get out, kick, float, dive, point, raise.
Adjetives: fast, slow, deep, long, short, bended, extended.
Prepositions: in, out, forward, backward, under, above, below,
behind.
Structures Imperative, questions, body position, comparative.
Language skills
/Discourse type
Reading, listening and speaking
4. Contextual (cultural)
element
Swimming sports in the neighbourhood facilities.
To know how important is swimming for improving personal
fitness. Also is a traditional and cultural topic in Anglo Saxon
countries.

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5. Cognitive (thinking)
processes
To know: swimming techniques through media presentation and
practice
To apply: in different practical tasks
To assess: through peer assessment and feedback
6. (a) Task(s)  Wiki project: colaborative work in which students must search
for images showing different swimming techniques, meanwhile
another student group match these images with technical
concepts
 Peer assessment: giving feedbacks to their own classmates.
Using “Ubersense app” for recording and analysing swimming
movements.
6. (b) Activities  Quizlet flashcards: learning swimming vocabulary through
online flashcards.
 Swimming notes analysis with Native Language Assistant.
 Socrative: concept assessment after theretical explanation
using smartphones.
 Word clouds: student will made word clouds with different
concepts and vocabulary they will learn (Wordle)
7. Methodology
Organization and class
distribution / timing
 Space: We have only 2 lanes for us, so the group is divided. 8
swimmers and 7 swimmers. The swimming pool is 25 metres
length, but it will be enough for didactic unit development.
Students must be respectful with facility: rules of swimming
pool and changing rooms rules, wearing flipflops and having a
shower before and after swimming.
• Time: 55 minutes per session.
First 10 minutes will be used to call the register and warm-up.
35 minutes to teach concepts and skills so as to practice them.
Last 10 minutes to cool down.
 Theric lessons: two groups for wiki project; pairs for learning
technical concepts and after that they will be able to assess
themselves.
Resources / Materials  pull buoys, pool noodles, kick boards, underwater hoops,
flippers.
 Video projector and laptop. Hi-fi sound device.
 Swimming notes
 Youtube videos
 Student smartphones: Socrative, Ubersense, Quizlet,
Wordle.

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Key Competences  Comunicación lingüística
 Conocimiento e interacción con el mundo físico
 Tratamiento de la información y competencia digital
 Autonomía e iniciativa personal
8. Evaluation (criteria
and instruments)
For swimming motor skills:
Voocabulary/content assessment:
 Test exam

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Feel free to use this template. Thanks for attributing the source.
A first sample of this template has been published at:
Pérez Torres, I. 2009. "Apuntes sobre los principios y características de la metodología AICLE" en V.
Pavón, J. Ávila (eds.), Aplicaciones didácticas para la enseñanza integrada de lengua y contenidos.
Sevilla: Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía-Universidad de Córdoba.171-180.
It is mainly based on the hands-on experience at designing units and on conversations with
experts and peers. The theory of the 4Cs by Do Coyle has also been taken into account. This
theory has been shown in various publications, such as: Coyle, D., Hood, P. and Marsh, D.,
2010. Content and Language Integrated Learning. Cambridge University Press.