Tuesday, June 5, 2012

BBC and British Council Website



Welcome to TeachingEnglish with BBC and British Council!

TeachingEnglish is a BBC and British Council Website that offers new tools and materials to help teachers and students in the classroom and with their development.

Across the site you can find free classroom materials to download, from short activities to full lesson plans, for teaching kids and adults. There are also articles on aspects of teaching, and free teacher development and teacher training materials.

Enjoy this great website:

Teaching English with BBC and British Council

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CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning






Underlying principles of CLIL according to BBC Website: 

"The principles behind Content and Language Integrated Learning include global statements such as 'all teachers are teachers of language' (The Bullock Report - A Language for Life, 1975) to the wide-ranging advantages of cross-curricular bilingual teaching in statements from the Content and Language Integrated Project (CLIP). The benefits of CLIL may be seen in terms of cultural awareness, internationalisation, language competence, preparation for both study and working life, and increased motivation.

While CLIL may be the best-fit methodology for language teaching and learning in a multilingual Europe, the literature suggests that there remains a dearth of CLIL-type materials, and a lack of teacher training programmes to prepare both language and subject teachers for CLIL teaching. The theory may be solid, but questions remain about how theory translates into classroom practice."


CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning


Discovery Channel Topics

Teachers can find on the Discovery Channel Website interesting videos and games for their classes, check it out:

Discovery Channel Topics