A selection of thirty units covering a wide variety of cross-curricular topics. Areas covered include maths, geography, biology, history, music, art, and drama. All the activities give learners opportunities to communicate in English and at the same time explore core areas of the curriculum.
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Hana Svecova. Cross-Curricular Activities
Introduction
Activities
1 Coat of arms
2 Animals
3 Fractions
4 Drawing a song
5 Plants
6 Experiments with a glass of water
7 Gold Rush routes
8 Multiplying and dividing
9 Leaves
10 Health
11 Moving pictures
12 Weather
13 Measurements
14 The Stone Age
15 Sight
16 Pictograms
17 The Solar System
18 Sound and hearing
19 Musical instruments
20 Weight
21 Library
22 Maps
23 Materials
24 Tree rings
25 Pulse
26 Fruit and vegetables
27 Voice
28 Timetable
29 Touch, taste, and smell
30 Framed pictures
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When I became a teacher, I was convinced that the concept of cross-curricular links was invented to make a teacher’s job miserable. I had the impression that cross-curricular teaching had very little relevance to what I was supposed to teach. I was sure there was no time for it in the packed syllabus and thought I was not qualified enough to work with cross-curricular topics. I was only an English teacher whose knowledge of other subjects was rather limited. Over the years, however, I began to realize that I did not have to be a scientific expert and that using cross-curricular topics made my lessons practical and motivating. What I thought was a burden proved to be a very good means of showing my learners that language is a great tool that enables us to exchange knowledge and opinions about the real world.
The benefits of cross-curricular activities
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can help increase learners’ self-confidence by giving them a chance to talk about what they have already learned or know from experience.
offer learners meaningful topics to talk about. A choice of interesting and relevant cross-curricular topics can help prevent the situation in which your learners understand, for example, how to use a structure, but they do not use it because they are short of ideas and do not know what to say. Cross-curricular topics make the content clear and specific.
