READY TO USE CLIL UNITS

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 HIYA!

How are you doing? It seems that this weird school year  has all teachers more stressed than usual. In today's post, I would like to give you hand.

As teachers, many times we think that we have to prepare all the materials by ourselves. That's ok, but teachers are very supportive and we like sharing with our colleagues. Today I am going to share with you a webpage which contains "Ready to use CLIL units". Yes! You have read correctly: ready to use CLIL units. This units have been prepared by other teachers and some of them have also been supervised by Philip Hood, one of the parents of CLIL. Other units have been prepared by teachers who have been participating in an innovative project of the Generalitat de Catalunya called "Generació Plurilingüe" (GEP).

And you may wonder: "What is the name of this fabulous webpage?" Here we go!  The name of this webpage is ARC.  Type  "ARC Departament d'Ensenyament" in the Google bar and then you will find tons of CLIL units in English and French. You might get inspired to create your own units or new ideas will come up. 


I like creating my own CLIL projects so that I can adapt them to my students or to the eTwinning project I am participating.


Do you think ARC can be useful for your CLIL classes?

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