Lectures on linguistic communication

The 'Consejería de Educación de Cantabria' has placed on the Internet some videos with the recordings of a series of lectures on the teaching of language, based on competences: Comunicación Lingüística. V Congreso Regional de Educación de Cantabria.

CLIL in the Basque Country

FACTWorld is a forum set up to support content and language integrated learning (CLIL), the teaching of subjects through the medium of a foreign language. The site contains links to country reports, useful sites and contact details of key people in participating countries.
The site includes this section devoted to the implementation of CLIL in some scools in the Basque Country.

Adding speech bubbles to photos

SuperLame website allows to add captions to pictures in your computer and save them for further uses. This is an example:

Creating comic strips online

Make Beliefs Comix website offers a free online comic generator, quite simple to use and suitable for creating short dialogues.

Bubbleshare

Information about Bubbleshare, how it can be used and an example of photo slide presentation made by Primary 3 students can be found in this entry on Encouraging Learner Autonomy blog.

A website based on 'Bugs 4'

English 4ºPrimaria web site offers suplementary activities and access to related resources for teachers using Bugs course books.

BritLit

BETEA (Basque English Teachers' Association) has organised a small event to introduce in the Basque Country the British Council's BritLit project. The event will take place on May 24th in Donostiako Berritzegunea.
More information

Recipes

PBS Kids website includes a section of activities and resources based on Mama Mirabelle's stories. Among them you can find handouts to make up a small book of easy recipes: My Savanna Cookbook

Videos watched or commented in our last meeting

Pocoyo: Bedtime

Pocoyo: Don't Touch!


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Online stories and nursery rhymes

Fridgefun4kids website includes a list of links to Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes.

Do2Learn: Online games

Do2Learn website includes different activities for young children. These are several examples:
- Word Pairs
- Feelings Game
- What's Different?
- Synonyms and Antonyms

Published materials related to CLIL

MacMillan Education publishers have recently released these titles related to CLIL:
Methodology: 'Uncovering CLIL'
'Subject-specific' vocabulary: 'Science Vocabulary Practice' (with or without CD ROM and key). Further information: Onestopclil