CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning

FORUM FOR THE SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING

CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning

The Bulgarian English Teachers Association Conference

And CLIL Pre-Conference Event

Rousse, March 30^th-April 1^st, 2012

The International Year of Chemistry

2011

Global Stamp Competition: Chemistry as

a Cultural Enterprise

Prize

giving and celebration of winner of 12-14 age group: Vasilena Vasileva, Gorna

Malina, Bulgaria

Nov 8th, 2011

Chemistry as a cultural enterprise

Ezikova Gimnazia Plovdiv

May 26th, 2010

School Partnerships Project Meeting

The Bulgarian English Teachers Association Conference

Veliko Tarnovo, April 2010

Rocket workshop

 
 
 
 
Ezikova Gimnazia Plovdiv 
 Alumni Talks

Feb 10th, 2010

Talk 1 - Maksim Baldzhiev: Communications and

Languages

 
 




 
 
 
 
 
World Sustainable Development Week!

Zlatarski School, Sofia

19th to 23rd Oct, 2009

Getting to grips with

sustainability education

Macmillan Workshop 18: Teaching Culture with a small 'c'

Pleven

Friday, Oct 9th, 2009

Who made this pile of

rubbish?

The FACT group is ten years old this year!

05th Oct, 2009

Find out more here

Maths and Science Education in Bulgaria

July 14th, 2009

The state of play

for incoming GERB Minister of Education

Science Across the Balkans group photograph uploaded

July 8th, 2009

Take a look here

Preparatory Class, EDS Plovdiv, 2008-2009

A lesson preparing for the oral exam - preparing an 1-2 minute

introduction about yourself.

June 10th, 2009

Full description here

Macmillan Workshop 17: Practical Ideas for Teaching

Pronunciation in the Classroom

Sofia

Friday, May 29th, 2009

YouTube Pronunciation

Velingrad Technikum for Economics and Tourism

A Geography lesson on

Tourism and Development

May 21st, 2009

Zlatarski International School at the European

Parliament - the Euroscola on 27th March 2009, Strasbourg

A teacher’s diary

By Lyubov Dombeva

Macmillan Workshop 14, Teaching Culture with a small

'c'

Plovdiv, Feb 6th, 2009

The culture of

everyday life

Preparatory Class, EDS Plovdiv, 2008-2009

Jan 6th, 2009

Oral exam preparation

Macmillan Workshop 13, Bits and Pieces

Dec 12th, 2008, Sofia

More here

Back to school - Preparatory Class, EDS Plovdiv, 2008-2009

Dec 8th, 2008

More

here

Macmillan Workshop No.12 - ICT in the classroom

Friday, Nov 21st, 2008

Report here

Macmillan workshop 11, Sofia, Friday October

3rd, 2008

Teaching Culture with a small 'c'... read more

here

New course for teachers on creating school

links through the curriculum

Plovdiv, July 9th to 17th, 2009, read more here

Macmillan Workshop 10, Sofia, the last for this school

year

June 19th, 2008

Project Work in the classroom... read more

here

Macmillan Workshops 9 was in Haskovo

June 12th, 2008

Biology, Physics, Chemistry and English Teachers come

together... read more here

Macmillan Workshops 7 and 8 were in Burgas and Varna

29th - 30th May, 2008

Two really great groups of teachers and sunny weather on the Black Sea

coast... read more here

Back to School...

I went back to teach at the English / German School in Plovdiv, February, 2008

It was great to be back ... read more here

Macmillan Workshops 4, 5 and 6

The fourth and fifth Macmillan Workshops in Bulgaria took place

in Sofia and number 6 was in Stara Zagora. more here

Macmillan workshop no. 3, Blagoevgrad

March 21st, 2008

Same vcabulary theme different context, read more here

School visit and Macmillan workshop no. 2, Sofia,

March 14th, 2008

A visit to the Ivan Zlatarski School for two lessons and a well-attended vocabulary workshop, read more here

Macmillan, Bulgaria organise TT

I'm delighted to announce that Macmillan are funding a tour of 18 workshops for teachers around the country in 2008-2009.

British

Council Bulgaria organises one-day trainings for teachers of all subjects on ICT in education.

Dates: 9, 10, 16, 17 February 2008 more information here and application form here

16^th National BETA-IATEFL Conference, 19 – 20 May

2007, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

It's great to be back in Bulgaria and to be able to

take part in the latest BETA conference as a resident... more here ...

English Teachers’ Conference Bulgaria

– CLIL on the rise.

It was the 15^TH

National  Conference of the Bulgarian English

Teachers’ Association, www.beta-iatefl.hit.bg, in Bulgaria last week, 13

– 14 May 2006.  The weather

was glorious and the conference had a large CLIL presence... more here.

Communicating Science in Bulgaria, 25 – 29.3.2005

As part of initiatives to promote Science

Communication in Bulgaria the British Council organised a Play Science

Festival at the Sofialand pleasure park in Bulgaria’s capital, 25.3.2005. More here.

Summer Course - Varna '2004 Here.

Description

of English Teaching

in 32 Language School “St. Kl. Ochridski “

In the curriculum of 32 Language School the two foreign

languages are English and Russian.

English is taught from the first Grade. The recent

textbook used in the primary school is “BRAVO“. During these four years

pupils are taught to write, understand and produce elementary dialogues in

English. The tenses they are acquainted with are the Present Simple, the Present

Continuous, the Past Simple and the Future Simple.

The 5 - 7 Graders continue studying English with BRAVO

textbooks and Venture textbooks as well (Narodna Prosveta Publishing House). In

my view, at the end of the 7 Grade most students are fluent enough to speak and

write in English.

According to the National Educational Curriculum in

Bulgaria after the 7 Grade students who would like to study at a Language School

should pass admission tests and successful candidates become students in the so

called “Preparatory Class” .During this academic year students are taught

extensively in English and at the end of the year they are supposed to pass an

exam which is to test whether students have acquired English and are able to

speak fluently in it. Successful students from the preparatory class continue

their education in the school. English is taught not only in English classes but

subject classes as well (e.g. Chemistry, Biology, History in English). The

teaching process is rarely bilingual – classes are predominantly in the target

language. The content subjects taught in English in our school are Chemistry and

Physics. History and Geography used to be taught in English in the past. The

problem is that it is difficult to find out teachers who are specialists in

their own subject and fluent English speakers as well.

The model of English Language Schools is quite good but

the major problem they are facing now is the lack of qualified and good English

teachers. Our school also experiences such difficulties.

Marianna Dencheva

EYLS Teacher

marianna76_99@yahoo.com

Dear colleagues,

I am really grateful to have the chance to participate

in the Science Across the Balkans Workshop in Plovdiv and I hope that such

workshop will turn into a tradition and will contribute to integration of the

efforts of all teachers in Europe as well as to improve the efficiency of their

work.

In Bulgaria extensive teaching in the foreign language

began only in the early 1990s. The process triggered off with the establishment

of private primary and secondary schools as well as with the introduction of

language learning from year 1 in the state sector. Nowadays almost all academic

subjects, mainly in private schools and 3 to 4 subjects in state schools, are

taught through the medium of English. The most frequently exploited subjects are

Chemistry, Geography and History although there are also examples of teaching

Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and even Arts.

At university level teaching in the foreign language

(French, German) occurs in several universities but those with teaching in

English are very few. Courses for students preparing for teaching in a foreign

language are practically missing.

As a teacher of Physics through English at a secondary

school, my experience is with 15-18 year old students in the space of 7 years.

The curriculum is very demanding all the more that in Bulgaria there are no

uniform criteria and methodology for teaching a subject through the medium of a

foreign language. There is also no official textbook in Physics written in

English.

An important factor of successful teaching Physics

through English is the high competitive admission at our school. The students

are smart, well-informed and with great potential, which requires good

preparation for the lessons. Moreover, it is a real challenge for me and

provides good motivation to continue. In teaching Physics a peculiarity is the

detailed explanation of the matter, which as a rule is felt very difficult by

the students, as well as its application in problem solving. There are two

radically different approaches from methodical point of view. In teaching the

theory the chief goal for me is my students to comprehend the main relations and

to acquire the terminology (both Bulgarian and English) so that subsequently to

be able to describe the processes and phenomena under study and to reason out

qualitative problems. In solving quantitative problems some other skills are

needed - the acquisition of additional skills and knowledge: the algorithm as

well as some mathematical terminology.

All this makes my task in class very challenging. To

support the learning process I have written a textbook in Physics in English,

which is in use in our school. I have always tried to improve my teaching

methods so I have made attempts to include some approaches typical of foreign

language teaching in teaching Physics, for instance Cooperative Learning. The

results are promising.

In conclusion I look forward to meeting colleagues from

Bulgaria and abroad in order to share experience and ideas.

Silvia Marinova

32nd School, Sofia, Bulgaria

silviarousseva@yahoo.com

Physics Teacher in Bulgarian

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