Hello!

I'm Irene and I work as an English and CLIL teacher  in CEIP Mediterráneo, Pilar de la Horadada.

I learnt about CLIL when I was studying. Then, in my school we started a multilingual project based on CLIL methodology six years algo. We teach Natural Science and Arts and Crafts in English and Physical Education and "Valencian Culture" in Valencian language. I agree on including CLIL in our schools because it has lots of advantages. It allows language to be used for real purpose and in context, and it is a very effective way of linking with other subjects. Also it is very motivating because children learn English through topics they are interested in such as plants, human body, solar system, etc, and they learn the language without thinking about it.

When I signed up in this course I was very excited about learning new activities and ideas to put into practice with my students, but now I am disappointed.  Up to now we had to create presentations, talk about other presentations, sign up in twitter, tweet things, retweet people's tweets, open a blog... and I don't think all of this is useful at all. I hope this course gets interesting otherwise I will give up.