CLIL activities for Technology

Didáctica AICLE en el área de Tecnología para Secundaria - Technologies activities
Tipos y ejemplos de actividades agrupadas en función de las destrezas lingüísticas
que se desarrollan en ellas
 Vocabulary activities
 Reading activities
 Writing activities
 Listening activities
 Speaking activities
7.1 VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES
Getting meaning
across ...
 Mime/gesture
 Realia
 Picture/photo/drawing
 Synonym/antonym
 Example
 Situation
 Translation
 Definition ...
Knowing a word
implies ...
 Knowing what it means
 Knowing how to spell it
 Knowing how to pronounce it
 Knowing what it collocates with
EXAMPLES
Revise
vocabulary
frequently
through
activities and
games
Support sheets,
cards, TIC... are
key
Matching pairs:
Tecnología v.3 Marzo 2014 - Rosa Fernández Alba 1

Complete the spaces:
Bingo:
Information
Organising
Activities
Many activities can involve pupils in organising pieces of
information in a variety of ways. Organising information may
involve:
o Matching
o Sequencing
o Sorting
o Rank ordering
o Conceptual maps
o Classifying
... or combination of these.
Basically pupils are given small units of information which when
organised and structured in
the right way reveal the ‘whole picture’.

EXAMPLES
Information
Organising
Activities
Support
sheets,
cards, TIC...
are key
Matching:
Sequencing: A Timeline
For example, pupils may be given a timeline that only shows the time units (e.g.
years) and a number of cards that describe events.
The pupil’s job is then to arrange the cards in the correct places on the timeline.
The question is how the pupils know where to put the cards? If the cards have
the appropriate date on them then the task becomes very simple. However, if
the pupils have to use an information source, such as a set of clues, then the
task becomes more demanding and will involve the use of reading, thinking and
probably listening and speaking as well. As a group task, it encourages
‘thinking aloud’ and a kind of talk where pupils put forward ideas and use talk
to ‘work things out’.
timeline .
There are different clue cards so that in a group of X, each pupil gets
their own clue card. This also encourages participation of all members of
the group and avoids either pupils opting out or one or more students
dominating the activity. Most of the clues should be cross-references, so
pupils need to pool their information and it leads to asking: Who's got
something about....? In this way, asking and answering and thinking
aloud become an important means of working out the solution.

For example:
Advances in "home technology".
The clues relate to a fictional family "The Wilsons" and provide
information about when the various generations of the family acquired
the domestic appliances on the cards. Before the students get the clue
cards the can 'predict' where the appliances go on the timeline. This is
useful for observing what the students already know and think about
when these appliances became available.
EXAMPLES
Information
Organising
Activities
Support
sheets,
cards, TIC...
are key
Conceptual maps:

EXAMPLES
Information
Organising
Activities
Support
sheets,
cards, TIC...
are key
Classifying
For example: Connect four
Prior to this activity the students will have carried out another activity to
explore the properties of the materials these objects are made out of
and they will have recorded their observation on a chart. This activity
aims to consolidate their learning about properties.
one pair of students has the yellow cards while the other pair has the
blue cards. Each pair shuffles the cards and places them face down on
the table. The yellow pair then take the top card from their pile, turn it
over and place it on an appropiate space on the board. The blues then
have their turn. The winners are the pair which make a line of four of
their cards (8across, down or diaglonally). It therefore becomes
important not to put your cards on the first appropriate place you find but
to think about where you can put them to block your oppnents and build
your line of four cards.
Information source
Whatever activity which needs an information source, this information
can come in a variety of forms:
 A text or set of texts
 A text book
 Reference books
 A pamphlet
 A set of clues
 A listening text
 A video

 A teacher exposition
 On the Internet, links given ...
 On the Internet, an interacive activity
 Pupils’ own knowledge, experience and logic.
 A poster
More matching, sequencing, sorting and rank ordering:
Take a look to this activity: Technological Processes and health and safety in
Tecnoinglish.
On the Internet, an interactive activity:

7.2 WRITING ACTIVITIES
Writing
exercises
Support sheets,
are key
o Finish the sentence.
o Dicto-comp. It is a simple technique for guided compositions.
This technique provides an activity intermediate between
completely controlled writing exercises and completely free
compositions. The technique itself is quite simple and requires
a short text or story.
Warn the students ahead of time that you will continue reading
until you get to the end of the story. Then, read the text aloud
once or twice at normal speed. This is, of course, much too fast
for them to write down the whole story word-for-word.
Put some of the key vocabulary items and phrases from the
story on the blackboard, and ask the students to write the text
down from ‘memory’. Naturally, they will not be able to
remember the story word-for-word, and thus they will have to
write much of it down in their own words.
For a weaker group, put the vocabulary and phrases on the
board before reading the story. It is important that the story not
be too difficult, nor too long. For beginning students, the whole
text might only be five or six lines long.
o Fill the gaps in exercises with Defining or naming - Classifying -
Consequence - Comparing - Predicting - Evaluating -
Transferring information ...
o Running dictation. Students in teams will have to memorize
sentences and dictates them to a classmate. Different roles in
a team: the runner (memorizes the text), the writer (copy what
the runner tells him/her) and the spelling checker. Texts are on
walls.
o Pair spelling practice.

EXAMPLES
Writing
exercises
o Finish the sentence.
o Fill the gaps.
Let's see some examples in Technologies:
Dealing with technology tools

Dealing with Health and safety

EXAMPLES
Writing
exercises
Support sheets,
are key
o Running dictation.

EXAMPLES
Writing
exercises
Support
sheets are
key
o Pair spelling practice.

7.3 READING / LISTENING ACTIVITIES
Support
strategies for
reading
o Check that they understand key vocabulary before they read
o Provide pre-reading questions to reduce the reading
demands of the text.
o Give reading support tasks, such as a chart to fill in, a
diagram to label, etc.
Types of reading
and listening
activities
o Listen/read and label a diagram/picture/map/graph/chart
o Listen/read and fill in a table.
o Listen/read and make notes on specific information (dates,
figures, times, main ideas).
o Listen/read and rearrange information/reorder information
o Listen/read and label the stages of a
process/instructions/sequences of a text
o Listen/read and fill in the gaps in a text
o Listening a dictation.
EXAMPLES
Support 3D
materials
Support
sheets are
key
Support
color disks
o Use REALIA and EXAMPLES in their enviroment.
Ver el vídeo en youtube
Ver vídeo en photopeach

When listening to teachers (a PowerPoint p.e.) let the students act.
It will not be so boring!!!
o Use a SEMAPHORE to let them vote a correct answer.
a) Teacher and Language Assistant ask questions about pictures, real
objects and students vote:
b) Students are offered different statements and students vote:

7.4 SPEAKING ACTIVITIES
Support
strategies for
speaking
o Ask short answer questions.
o Prompt (for example start learners' responses for them).
o Put a list of key vocabulary on the board.
o Think before you speak.
o Distributing turns.
o The value of repetition and variations.
o Allow some L1 responses or even “Spanglish”.
o Give them talking frames, sentence starters or substitution
tables.
o Ask students to use their L1 when discussing but their L2 when
reporting back.
Types of
speaking
activities
Support sheets
are key
o Question loops – questions and answers, terms and
definitions, halves of sentences, can be exploited to create a
question loop.
o Write question-write answer - Ask your partner questions so
that they will answer with the exact words you have on your
sheet. If they answer correctly, check √ yes.
o Info gap – students must speak to each other to fill in the
missing information from their diagram with questions sheet to
support.
o Trivia search – ‘three things you know’ and ‘three things you
want to know’with support for making questions.
o Word guessing games – Teams have one minute to guess as
many words as possible and get one point for each correct
guess.
o Class surveys – use questionnaires to guide pupils in asking
set questions of their classmates.
o 20 Questions – provide language support frame for questions.
Speaker can only say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in answer and pupils only get
20 questions to get the answer right.
o Making presentations/talking from a prompt – instruct pupils
to present information from a visual using language support
handout.
o Find someone who... - use a handout with questions. If your
classmate answers "yes" and does it, write his/her name on the
handout.
o Record your voice. Using an ICT tool, you can manage to
create activities so as students have to talk even if they are
shy.

EXAMPLES
Types of
speaking
activities
Support
sheets are
key
Example of Info gap
One pupil (or pair of pupils) have Sheet A, one have Sheet B.
They have to take turns to find out each other’s vertebrates by asking
questions. Imagine tools, forces, structures... instead of animals!
images from nottinghamschools, cooperative learning booklet
Example:
Pupils A and B ask and answer each other's questions to find out what
tool will accurately complete their respective grids without showing each
other their papers.

EXAMPLES
Types of
speaking
activities
Support sheets
are key
Example of Find someone who...
(geometry)

EXAMPLES
Types of
speaking
activities
Support
sheets,
cards, TIC...
are key
Example of Record your voice...
Based on support sheets on walls, students have to copy an information
and create a Voki to record their voices explaining the info.
Take a look at the activity: Safety at the workshop an results.
Instructions for the task in a Voki: An example of the task done by student:

Let everybody
talk ...
and listen
o Distribute turns.
o Make sure everyone participates. Try calling on students by
pulling names out of a jar until all names are used. If you work
in groups, you can have several jars. Students can create their
own stick-names!.
images from nottinghamschools, cooperative learning booklet
o Sometimes students don't listen to each other. One way of
ensure that the whole class is listening is to have them score
the answer.
Some students can be asked to score content, others can be
asked to score language. You can even divide the language
scores into those who listen for grammar and those who listen
for pronunciation.
To keep the scores honest, occasionally call on them to justify
their score:
Was it really perfect?
Why did you give it a 9 instead of a 10?
It will be too time-consuming to do this all the time, but
occasionally it can remind the students of the value of accuracy
and increase their capacity to monitor their own language.

Let
everybody
talk ...
and listen
o Have some students to say an statement (false or true) about his/her
task or about the subject.
For instance: 'This is a hammer'... and the whole class will have to 'guess' if
it is true or false using the semaphore disks.
In the picture, it's my language assistant, Kostyn, who makes the statements.

ReferencIas y bibliografía:
Las imágenes sin pie de foto son propias - Rosa Fernández Alba
TECNOINGLISH blogs - Rosa Fernández Alba
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Language Assistants in the bilingual program - Making the best - Isabel Blecua-Sarah Albrecht-Rachel Basse
Essential Secondary CLIL - Jo Sintes - Josie Rich - Phil Ball
Building bridges between Content and Language - Phil Ball
Cooperative Learning in the classroom Booklet - Steve Cooke
Barrios Espinosa, Mª Elvira. 2012. Módulo 7: Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenido y Lengua Extranjera (AICLE).
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Cañabate Carmona,Carmen; Cristóbal Huertas, David y Espinosa Canet, Francisca. 2011.10 sugerencias para
integrar Contenidos y L2.CEP Almería.
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