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FACTWorld News and Events

New course for teachers on creating school links through the curriculum

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

There are some very interesting and significant conclusions made in this article which looks at gender and social differences and achievement and also presents results of CLIL groups in comparison with control groups.

June 27th, 2008

Back to School...

It was with great pleasure that I stepped back into the Prep class at the English/German School Plovdiv this year. 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

CLIL in the United Arab Emirates

I spent an exhilarating 5 days in the Emirates last week working on a packed and intensive programme

TT Workshop Tour, Bulgaria

Macmillan sponsor teacher training in 18 locations around Bulgaria, 2008-2009

Macmillan invests in CLIL

I'm pleased to say that major publishers have started producing materials for CLIL

CLIL in Catalonia

Off to NILE to meet a Catalan CLIL group, Feb 2008, update

Integrating Maths with project/problem-based learning

This is a short report in a mail to me on a valuable and interesting initiative from Ng Khar Thoe, the Science Across the World representative in Malaysia.

Beyond Trivia

Two conferences presenting non-trivia language teaching in Poland and the launch of the Speak up on Climate! resources, December 2-3, 2007 more here

Science Across partners meet in Kassel, Germany, Fri, Nov 16th 2007

from Lyubov Dombeva, English-medium Biology teacher in Bulgaria more here...

Content and Language Integration in Yemen

The British Council organized two days of workshops with teachers of English and Science (and Science in English), Sanaa, Nov 12-13.  more here...

English-medium Science and Maths in Oman

The British Council organized two days of meetings and workshops in Oman to do with the teaching of content subjects through the medium of English.  The workshops took place on Sat 10th and Sun 11th Nov, 2007.  more here ...

Content and Language in Bahrain

The British Council organized a very busy programme of events in Bahrain related to content and language integrated learning over two days, Nov 7th-8th, 2007. more here...

Training for Teaching Science, Maths and IT in English

The Mohammed Bin Abdul Wahab Independent High School for Boys - Doha - Qatar, Nov 3-4, 2007 more here...

No Nonsense CLIL!

No Nonsense: non-trivial content, non-trivial methodology - 12 DOS - TTS teacher development conference - this is a title for a conference I can warm to...

Report on workshops for bilingual geography teachers, Oct 2007

Ola Zaparucha

Training course for teaching Maths and Science in English

The English Language Teaching Centre, Malaysia, has published a course online for teacher training for Maths and Science through the medium of English.... more here

Science Across the World QCA Case Study 17th Oct, 2007

The message is getting through that Science Across the World is a first class programme of intercultural exchange for science investigation through common a language.  Well, of course it is!

Bilingual Projects in the Canton of Zürich

This is the summary of the presentation: “CLIL – The Zürich Teacher Training Course” by Martina Wider, Fachstelle Fremdsprachen, Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt Zürich

The final report for the YACs project was published in July 2007 and you can read that ... here ...

DNA Models Exhibition, Natural History Museum, Sofia, March 2004

Finally uploaded the photographs of this amazing exhibition, sorry for the delay

CLIL Brazil

A short report on where content and language integrated learning is in Brazil, 04.10.07, more here...

Latest from Turkey... (July 2007)

An update on CLIL in Turkey from Steve Darn as well as a PPT presentation on CLIL Geography focussing on Vancouver

Science Across the World team meeting                        

The team got together for its annual meeting in Hatfield on Sept 21-22, 2007.  More updates from the team here...

Sept 2007

China Dialogue: Integrating language learning and environmental awareness

www.chinadialogue.net/language a pilot site is launched offering the latest news items on environmental issues which have been adapted to give language learning activities.  Find out more 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 ...

May 8th, 2007 - Science Across the World reaches 5000!

Welcome and congratulations to Stella Maris Martinez of Ing Giúdici School in Argentina for being the 5000th teacher to join the Science Across the World programme.

www.scienceacross.org

CLIL Symposium, IATEFL Aberdeen, Sunday, April 22, 2007, 9.15 - 11.45

A series of presentations on content and language integration from colleagues around the world at the annual conference for teachers of English as a foreign language... more here

English-medium Geography, Poland, 19th April, 2007

Ola Zaparucha has sent us two papers on the teaching of Geography through English in Poland which were presented during the October Conference in Torun and which have since been published in a book of proceedings... more here

CLIL Latvia, preparing for training...

The British Council in Latvia organised a three day workshop for teachers of content subjects and ELT in Jurmala this week, April 11- 13, at the Lielupe Hotel on the Baltic coast... more here

The Young Ambassadors of Chemistry project brought Science to the streets of Grahamstown, South Africa in March 2007... more here.

Content and Language Integration in Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman

There are three reports on the site which you can access either from the flags of the countries listed or from the 'latest on the site' on the homepage.  Here...

Science Across the World in collaboration with GSK continues to do good work in Asia Pacific offering workshops for teachers and students.  The recent project-based learning workshops were reported and published in the 'Digital Learning' journal more here... and here...

Report on VI BETEA Teachers’ Day with ‘Science and Literature’ focus from speaker at the conference and FACTWorld colleague, Tim Herdon... more here

Content and Language Integration in Switzerland, Friday 19^th to 21^st January 2007.

Report on integrating content and language at the Hull School, Zurich, a visit to the Olten Grammar School to work with 16 CLIL teachers and presentations at the annual conference of the English Teachers Association Switzerland... more here.

News of a English Teachers' conference with a CLIL theme from Lui García Gurrutxaga, Jan 11th 2007

After 5 years of silence BETEA is back!. We have organized the :VI betea Teachers’ Day on February 3rd 9:30- 13:30 in the Centro Cívico La Bolsa Eraikia in Bilbao... more here

News of a CLIL seminar in Venice, from Marina Fumagalli, Jan 12th 2007

Invio per conoscenza comunicazione sul Seminario CLIL che si terrà a Venezia il 19.01.2007. Potete accedere ad altre informazioni attravrso il sito (indirizzo sotto). Il programma è ancora in fase di completamento. more here

CLIL Conference, Lithuania, 8-9th December, 2006

A CLIL conference was held in Lithuania this week.  The conference took place at the Sarunas Hotel, Vilnius on the 8^th December and was followed by a day’s practical workshop on CLIL on the 9^th at the American International School of Vilnius (more here).

Climate Change CLIL in Poland, 24th - 26th Nov, 2006

The British Council in Poland (www.britishcouncil.pl) organised two days of activities integrating climate change education with language education in Warsaw this week (more here).

Teaching Geography in English

a report on a content and language integration conference in Poland Oct 5-8 2006, from Aleksandra Zaparucha and an article outlining a geography lesson in English during the conference (more here).

Teaching Geography in English, Poland

Find out about a conference which focused on integrating Geography and English in Poland, October 2006.  There is also an article describing a lesson which was given on map reading during the conference by author Aleksandra Zaparucha, (more here).