Cross-Curricular Resources for Young Learners

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Immacolata Calabrese. Cross-Curricular Resources for Young Learners

THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK

HOW THE TEXT IS ORGANIZED

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2

APPENDIX 3

APPENDIX 4

FURTHER READING

GROWING

Living or not living?

Plants

Animals

Humans

ALL ABOUT ME

Keeping healthy

Me and my senses

Human body

THE WORLD AROUND ME

Moving around Planet Earth Where in the world

TIME TRAVELLING

Dinosaurs. Egyptians. Romans

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This book is intended as a resource book for teachers of English in primary schools. It contains a range of activities which will help you to vary or expand the materials provided by course books.

It is generally recognized that linguistic diversity is as vital a component of a civilization as economic activities and religious and civil customs. It is believed that the learning of language and content in conjunction provides many opportunities for learning language indirectly; it enables children to learn more quickly and to reach a higher level of knowledge than a traditional approach does. In recent years the recognition of the potential of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), whereby the children study a subject in a foreign language, has persuaded many researchers to carry out experimental projects whose aims may be summarized as follows:

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Each teaching plan is structured according to a cross-curricular approach which makes it possible either to use all the activities or to select just some of them, in accordance with the needs of the class. An effective approach to CLIL at primary level can be summarized as follows:

a) Exploit the children’s previous linguistic and subject knowledge.

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