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How to improve children’s comprehension of English?

Use classroom language


· When starting the lesson Good morning!, Hello everyone!, Who is absent today? Let’s start!
· During the lesson Get out your books..., Open your books on page…, Turn to page…., Look at exercise … on page …., Look
at line/picture…., Let’s say it together., All together!, This row/group…., Say it again, please!, The whole sentence, please.,
Your turn., Louder please., In English, please., What’s…/.in English?, In English, please. Come here., Go back to your place.,
Stand up., Sit down., Hands up/down, Hurry up., Close the door, please., Open the window, please., Come in, Just a minute.
· When you praise the children Good, Fine, That’s (much) better, Well done, Great, Excellent, Very good, That’s very nice, It’s
all right. - Don’t worry, Try again
· During reading, writing and speaking activities Can you read this? Who can read this sentence?, Go on, Say it after me,
Read John’s part, Mary, Write/Copy that in your notebooks, Who wants to write that on the board?, How do you spell this?
· When playing games Who’s your partner? Has everyone got a partner? Sit back-to-back, Don’t show your partner, Change
partners/places with…. Are you ready?, Whose turn is it?, Take it in turns, You’re next, Start now, Guess, It’s time to stop.
Have you finished?, Who has finished?
· When you try to keep order Quiet, please!, Stop talking/playing, Don’t do that please., Stop that, Don’t be silly, Give that to
me, please.
· When ending the lesson That’s all for now/today, Let’s stop now, OK. You can go now, Put your books away, See you on
Monday, Have a nice weekend!
PLANNING CLIL LESSONS
Planning in an integrated way
Adapted from
https://achievethecore.org/peersandpedagogy/using-content-and-language-objectives-to-help-all-students-in-their-learning/

Verbs for Content Objectives Verbs for Language Objectives


Students will… Students will be able to..

Knowledge- list, describe, identify Listening- identify, tell, show

Comprehension- summarize, explain, Speaking- discuss, explain, summarize,


recall ask and answer questions

Application- compare, contrast, Reading- find specific information,


classify, solve preview, read aloud or with a partner

Synthesis- compose, create, infer, Writing- summarize, provide evidence


elaborate to support your answer, state and justify
opinions
The very hungry caterpillar
Lesson Plan sample
Lesson plan

Lesson “X” (e.g. from the module: The world of animals)

Linguistic objectives:
Vocabulary and structures: e.g. Students know the names of domestic animals, wild animals and pets; students know verbs and expressions
(or structures) to describe different abilities (e.g. swim, jump, run, etc.), where animals live, what they eat, and their characteristics.
Specific vocabulary or Key language (what the children need to recognise/produce): e.g. Jungle, farm, house; tiger, crocodile, monkey,
lion, parrot, pig, duck, cow, hen, horse, fish, cat, hamster, dog, bird; swim, jump, run, walk, climb, fly, live.
Specific structures or Language functions: e.g. what can you see in this picture? I can see. A jungle/ farm...What animal is this? It's a tiger/
rabbit....Where does it live? What can a tiger do? It can...Can a tiger fly? Etc.
(Cognitive) Skills:
e.g. students understand simple information from authentic video;
Students answer and ask questions about animals (habitat, food, actions); Students describe animals (oral form)

Content objective(s): e.g. students understand the diversity of animal kingdom.


Bloom's taxonomy
Bloom's taxonomy is a long-standing cognitive framework that categorizes critical reasoning in order to help educators set

more well-defined learning goals. Benjamin Bloom, an American educational psychologist, developed this pyramid to define

levels of critical thinking required by a task.

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