CLIL lesson plans

(Content and Language Integrated Learning)

Students’ proficiency level: Low Pre-Intermediate

Topic: Healthy Eating

Cross curricular link: Science

General objectives:

- to develop students’ awareness of the importance of a balanced diet

- to provide practice of basic food vocabulary
- to introduce infinitive of purpose through content
- to develop note taking skills
- to develop communicative ability
- to provide interesting reading material and information to boost students’ motivation
- to practice past simple and continuous
- to integrate the four skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing

Learning outcome:

- students will be able to understand the basic nutrients and explain their functions using
infinitive of purpose
- students will be able to plan a healthy diet
- they can understand the importance of a balanced diet
- students can hypothesise
- they can use reference material to get information about the history of a famous
Hungarian cake, Rigó Jancsi
- they can communicate in different ways
- they will be able to create a story using new vocabulary
Time Task Aim Interaction Skill and Procedure
Language
focus

Lesson 1
to arouse Students watch
2 min. Warming up students’ Open class Listening the short
activity interest and advertisement
Watching a get focused and guess the
video on the topic topic of healthy
advertisement food
to elicit The teacher
2-3 Brainstorming existing Open class Speaking writes
min. vocabulary HEALTHY
to activate FOOD in the
students’ middle of the
schemata blackboard and
about healthy gets students to
food shout out any
food they
consider
healthy. The
teacher writes
the ideas on the
board.
to build Students watch
5 min. Watching a vocabulary of Individual Writing the first part of
video clip of food work/whole the video
healthy food to develop class without voice so
note taking discussion that they can
concentrate only
 on the pictures.
Students take
notes
individually,
then discuss the
new vocabulary
together with the
whole class
to develop Students listen
10 Food Groups listening Individual Listening to the song and
min. are Rocking comprehensi work and writing complete the
Tonight on whole class lyrics, then
Song with to learn new discussion discuss the
pictures vocabulary completed text
to boost with the class
motivation
with a lively
song
to introduce Students get the
10 The main the main Group work Reading chart to
min. nutrients nutrients Writing complete with
Completing a to build Speaking the help of the
chart vocabulary text
The teacher
monitors and
helps when
necessary
to explore The teacher calls
5 min. Infinitive of new grammar Group work Writing attention to parts
purpose Speaking of the text that
Using include the new
infinitive of grammar
purpose structure
 With the help of
an example
sentence
students write
more sentences
to raise Students are
10 A balanced diet awareness of Frontal and Speaking encouraged to
min. Food Pyramid the group work and writing answer the
importance of using questions then in
a balanced more/less groups they put
diet most/least the pictures of
food into the
correct place of
the Food
Pyramid
to develop In groups
Homework cooperation Groupwork Writing prepare a
skills healthy menu
to improve and give reasons
higher order for your choice.
thinking One of the
skills group members
will present it to
the class.

Lesson 2
One student
8-10 Presentation Individual Speaking from each group
min. presents their
healthy menu
to get Students try to
5 min. Warming up feedback of Open class Speaking answer the
the previous questions and
lesson guess the name
 to arouse of a traditional
students’ Hungarian cake
interest of the called Rigó
forthcoming Jancsi
topic
to get cultural After reading
15 The story of information Pair work Reading the introduction
min. Rigó Jancsi from the text and part together
Information gap to develop speaking students work in
activity speaking Using past pairs and take
skills and simple and turns to ask and
practice the continuous answer
use of past questions about
simple and the story of Rigó
continuous Jancsi
to deduce
Students try to
5-7 Vocabulary vocabulary Pair work Speaking
match the
min. building meaning
expressions with
from the
the definitions in
given content
pairs
to develop
Students work in
10 Story writing cognitive Group work Writing
groups to make
min. skills Practising
up a story using
to improve past simple
the given words
writing skills and
or writing a
continuous
sequel to The
given story