Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 41

CLIL School, Uzhgorod, Ukraine 24-28th March, 2025

I had been to Ukraine once before, to Lviv, to contribute to a short meeting of teachers with an interest in CLIL and it was during this meeting that the dynamic coordinator Natalia Liashko asked about the possibility of a one-week course along the lines of the Putting CLIL into Practice courses I run in Anglia School in Bulgaria. I said, ‘let’s do it!’ and Natalia, being the meticulous organizer she is, set about polling interest in her network of colleagues around Ukraine.
20 teachers came together for the course from around Ukraine, including Poltava and Hirkiv. This CLIL school was to be in the city of Uzhgorod, close to the Hungarian/Slovak border and we were hosted very well by Lycee no. 3. The school being on a week’s holiday meant we were given access to a couple of classrooms, and the school canteen worked just for us to provide delicious lunches. Not only did they feed us splendidly (thank you!) but they allowed us to use the kitchen facilities so that I could make a Bulgarian banitsa with the teachers.
As always, these training events are a mixture of things. We learn together, we ‘edutain’ together and we socialize together. In this collection you will find a range of materials reflecting the varied interests of the colleagues who worked specifically to produce resources with their own groups in mind.
We have a fabulous project on ‘cheese’ where students get to make their own. There is a look into music over time, and as with the cheese, students are invited to express their opinions on what they hear. There is a project on ‘presence online’ where students create a video to post. Last, but by no means least there is a project focusing on Transcarpathia, our host region for the course in Uzhgorod.
As always any errors you spot are all mine, but all the hard work is thanks to the dynamic colleagues from Ukraine. Thank you!
Keith    04.07.25

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