This library link offers a lot of resources all with a focus on Europe.  The resources look not only at Geography, but also History, Culture, Economy and Language.

http://www.cernet.at/library/index.php

The structure of the resource section is easy to follow

Within each of these sections there are subsections.

Language support

I’ve been searching for content and language resources recently for examples of how language is supported in the content.  CLIL is a developing area and there is still little available in materials in the public domain which actually develops language as part of the learning of content.

The CERNET resources are very well structured and offer a lot of ‘scaffold’ for learners to process language through reading texts and research on a number of topics.  There are also structures for guiding students in their writing and note taking.  Some of the tasks presented do make demands on the language of the learners without clear evidence of instruments for supporting their language production.

Here is an example,

In 1. Europe (269kb) there is a task which asks students to complete a fact sheet on a chosen country.  The data is rich and covers a broad area.  Students are asked to find information about geography, demographics, politics among others.  The sheet provided is clearly structured

Form new groups, exchange results and complete all the factsheets.

You can see how the language can be predicted in full.  This predicated language would then need to be restructured in a learner-friendly way.  Language support, for example, for the section to do with population of the sheet could be given and organised as follows:

This form of presentation of materials with language support which is part and parcel of the learning resources, is at the heart of content and language integrated learning.  CLIL materials need to offer language accessibly to learners so that they can actually ‘learn language’ while they ‘do’ something other than explicitly learning language.