The good news about formulating a strong lesson plan for
a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) class is
that it will contain many of the same features of a good lesson
plan for any class. That is, it will include transitions from and
to the previous class and the next one, it will warm students
up to the day’s lesson in an engaging way, it will present new
material and recycle familiar material, it will include some
ways to assess progress during the class, and it will be
flexible enough to account for classes that move slower or
more quickly than you had anticipated.
What’s important about CLIL lesson plans, though, is that
you include both subject area content and language points so
that you derive the full benefits of a CLIL approach. If you try
to wing it, you might wind up concentrating on one area to the
detriment of the other.
The key elements of CLIL lesson plans are:
Content – Most teachers find it easiest to start by
considering the content. What knowledge – that is, what
subject area material – do you want to transmit? How
are you going to present it – through an article, a video, a
demonstration, a discussion, or an experiment?
It can be helpful when planning to finish sentences such
as I want my students to be able to/At the end of the class,
they should know… If you have a cooperating content area
teacher at your institution, meet with that person in advance
to go over your goals and see how they interact with theirs.
Language – Once you have the content pinned down,
you can pick out the necessary language and communication
skills that students will need to engage with the material.
For example, these could include: specialized vocabulary,
functional phrases and collocations, pronunciation or
intonation practice, grammatical structures, features of text
organization.
You’ll find these linguistic features in the texts that you
present, but also in the language that students need to
complete tasks. Imagine yourself as a student carrying out a
task. What will you say? What will you write? Then, determine
if you’ll need to teach any of this language to your class before
presenting students with the task.
(https://bridge.edu/tefl/blog/clil-lesson-plans/. Adaptado)
