Here is a pretty exhaustive list of CLIL workshop topics – in alphabetical order - that I offer:

  • Activating language and content
  • Active learning and brain-friendly CLIL
  • Authentic assessment and assessment for learning in CLIL
  • Collaboration between the English department and subject teachers
  • Cross-curricular projects
  • Errors and feedback: recognizing errors, giving feedback to learners on content, spoken and written language
  • Guiding understanding and working with input: helping learners understand spoken and written input; texts and reading skills; scaffolding learning; graphic organizers
  • Images in CLIL: how to use visuals in your CLIL lessons
  • The language of your subject : language in texts: the  Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR); what is typical language in your subject?
  • Learner differences; multiple intelligences
  • Lesson materials development for CLIL
  • Output: speaking. Encouraging English in the lessons: getting learners involved. Information gaps, communicative speaking, speaking tasks.
  • Output: writing. Communicative writing; different kinds of writing texts.
  • Questioning and thinking skills: LOTS and HOTS (lower order thinking skills and higher order thinking skills)
  • Vocabulary. Glossaries or PIFS (personal idiom files); vocabulary tasks
  • What is CLIL? How CLIL are you? A general introduction to CLIL