LESSON PLAN - CLIL
Topic
Science - Animals
Aims
● To increase students’ knowledge about animal
● To develop all four language skills
Age
Children aged 8
Level
A2
Time
35 minutes
Materials
● Student book - page 53
● Audio tracks 81-82
● CLIL lesson worksheet
● Information cards.
Introduction
This topic and accompanying tasks/activities offer the teacher (s) and students the
opportunity to develop both content and language knowledge to an appropriate
depth over a single lesson
Procedure
1. Lead-in * Game “As quick as a flash”
(5 minutes) - The teacher explains how the game is played.
● The teacher divides the class into 2 teams
● The teacher will name an animal first and then point to a
student in one of the 2 teams, then that student must
immediately answer the name of another animal.
● If the answer is correct, the student can point to another
student in other groups to answer. Just like that, which team
can’t say anymore will lose.
- The teacher encourages students to play the game and check
students’ answers.
- The teacher introduces the lesson.
2. Task 1: ● Listen, point and repeat:
(5 minutes) - The teacher points to the pictures. Say the words and let the
students repeat them. (insect; feather; wing)
- The teacher plays the recording. Students to listen and point to the
correct words
- Students repeat each word after they hear it.
- The teacher put students in pairs. One student points to the
picture, other students say the words.
- The teacher calls some pairs to perform in front of the class.
3. Task 2 - The teacher distributes worksheets to students
(5 minutes) - Students work on worksheet part 1. exchange worksheets with
their deskmates.
- Students volunteered to present the lesson.
4. Task 3: - Students read the text silently in their mouth or in their head
Reading (10 before listening.
minutes) - Students predict the answer for the exercise in the reading in
2 minutes
- The teacher plays the recording for students to follow in their
books. ( 2times)
- Students volunteer to read the text for the class.
- Students check their friend’s pronunciation.
- Students continue to complete the exercise, looking back at
the text and writing the number of legs and wings for each
animal in their notebooks.
- Students exchange books with their partners and check the
answers.
- Call some students to give their answers.
- The teacher check answers with the class
5. Task 4: • The teacher elicits key vocabulary
(3 minutes) • Students are given a gap-fill version of the summary text and
asked to complete the text. Students work individually and then
check in pairs. (Task 2 on the worksheet)
6. Task 5: ● Make information cards for your favorite insect and
Making bird.
information - The teacher elicits which insects/birds are students’
cards (7
favorites. If students don’t know the English words, suggest
minutes)
them by writing the words on the board.
- Students look at the information cards for bee and bird in
the book.
- Students make two information cards, one for their favorite
insect and the other for their favorite bird: draw the insect or
bird at the top and then write legs and wings below it,
following the models in their book.
- Some students present their cards for the class.
7. Task 6 ● Write about your favorite insect or bird.
Follow-up - The teacher elicits which insects are students’ favorites. The
activities ( 5 teacher can write some simple words or sentences on the
minutes)
board.
- Students do this work at home.