Aleksandra Zaparucha
Aleksandra Zaparucha has an MA in Geography (1989) and English (2001) gained at the Nicolas Copernicus University (UMK) in Toruń, Poland. She has been teaching both for almost 20 years, and four years ago she started teaching Geography bilingually in the Secondary School Complex no. 10 in Toruń. She is also teaching general English in Empik language s...
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Anglia School
2014.11.27
Anglia School opened in September 2012.
At Anglia School not only do we provide a rich learning environment we also immerse your child in the English language. Our curriculum has been developed to include a wide range of skills and competencies to reflect and provide for the individual personalilities and learning styles of each and every child wh...
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Argentina - Young Ambassadors for Chemistry
YACs in Argentina
Young Ambassadors for Chemistry came to South America from May 9th to 15th. 2005
I arrived in Argentina after a 13 hour flight and 2 hours sleep and was met by Monica Tosi, the Science Across the World coordinator for South America, tired but excited about the prospect of taking YACs to another location.
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Article 09 Learning Geography Bilingually
9 Learning Geography Bilingually
(article)
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol. 28, No. 3, 411-424,
November 2004
LUKE DESFORGES & RHYS JONES
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
No free version found, but link to
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Article 12: Speaking up - announcing a multilingual revolution
12 Speaking up - announcing a multilingual revolution
(article)
Matthias Krug article for Abode Magazine
This article talks about Multilingual / Bilingual Education / CLIL in Spain and Qatar
Posted June 5th, 2010
I really enjoyed reading this article. It's says what's what, deals with the main issues and questions concerning bi...
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Article 23 - TIMELINES AND LIFELINES
23 - TIMELINES AND LIFELINES:
Rethinking Literacy Instruction in Multilingual Classrooms Jim Cummins | Vicki Bismilla | Sarah Cohen | Frances Giampapa | Lisa Leoni
o r b i t , V o l 3 6 , N o 1 , 2 0 0 5 (pp 22-26)
(article)
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Article 24 - Collaborative interaction in turn-taking
24 - Collaborative interaction in turn-taking: a comparative study of European bilingual (CLIL) and mainstream (MS) foreign language learners in early secondary education
Moore, Pat (2011)
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
First published on: 06 January 2011 (iFirst) (article) Paid access via informaworld.c...
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Article 26 - Speaking English in Finnish content-based classrooms
Articles which are about CLIL
26 Speaking English in Finnish content-based classrooms
Background
The author sets out not to analyze formal aspects of language use, but 'how English is used in Finnish biology and physics CLIL classrooms… social and interpersonal aspects of language use'.
This study says some very g...
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Articles
This is a a reference list, there are links to the comments and it's offered with latest read first.
27 - Learning while using an additional language
A letter I wrote in to reply to an article in the School Science Review, which was exploring the supporting of language in classes where students include students for whom English is no...
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Assessment in CLIL
Assessment in CLIL
Examples of assessment instruments uploaded as a result of discussion in Younglearners @ yahoogroups, April 20th - 24th, 2009
On the Basque website you will find a number of interesting instruments for gathering information about achievement, both for peer assessment and teacher assessment. Note that the objective...
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Asturias - Asturian CLIL
Asturian CLIL
16th-19th Feb, 2009
Getting to know content and language integration in Asturias
I’ve just spent a delightful three days in Asturias in Northern Spain. Even the EasyJet flight which took me back to Bulgaria from Stansted had a piece on Asturias in its magazine.
Never having been there before, I knew very ...
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Asturias - CLIL Book
New CLIL book from Asturias
Colleagues in the Asturian CLIL teachers' network have published a book of resources and teachers' notes for CLIL.
The education unit page has been altered, but there's plenty of news at their website: You can access
the relevant page here
What you'll find...
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Austria - A Curriculum for International Education
A Curriculum for International Education
Vienna Board of Education, Austria
October 14th, 2014
I was invited by the Vienna Board of Education to give a talk as part of their well-known evening lecture series at their lovely HQ in Vienna.
Over 50 people came to the talk, a topic I've been passionate about for many years. It was a p...
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Austria - A Jubilee CLIL Teacher Training
Austrian CLIL Teacher Development Course - 10th Group
Vienna University of Education Oct 7-9 2015
The tenth group of colleagues came to the most recent CLIL training at the University of Education in Vienna. This training is part of an on-going initiative funded by the Austrian Ministry of Education. It follows on from the Austrian g...
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Austria - CEBS Conference
Conference for CEBS network of vocational schools, Austria
22-24th Oct, 2009
I attended a conference run by CEBS which is the Austrian organization and network of vocational schools. The conference was attended by 350 teachers, mainly teachers of French, German, English, Russian and other languages, but there were also content teac...
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Austria - CLIL Workshop Innsbruck
CLIL Workshop
Akademisches Gymnasium, Innsbruck
March 1st, 2010
I arrived at Vienna airport in Austria early on Sunday morning and got on a train to take me across the country to Innsbruck and stayed in the Hotel Sailer. This is the same hotel I stayed in 4 or 5 years ago when I first worked for the PH in Innsbruck. Thanks to Angelika A...
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Austria - CLIL-Voc Conference, Linz
2017.03.30
I gave the opening keynote at the CLILVoc Conference today at the KPH - University College of Education in Linz, Austria.
I promised to make my slides available, so
here they are linked.
My talk was a 'state of the art' of CLIL in Austria over the 5-year life span so ...
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Austria - COOP CLIL 2015
Austria - COOP CLIL 2015
The second round of in-service professional development for teachers in HTL, HAK and other schools in Austria.
The event took place in Salzburg, Nov 9th to 12th 2015.
Almost 90 teachers came from all over Austria.
Like the first COOP CLIL event last year, each subject teacher came along with a partner collea...
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Austria - Cooperation in CLIL
Report on COOP CLIL Salzburg
(10th – 13th November 2014)
I was asked to prepare input on how language teachers can best collaborate with subject teachers. I’d prepared an agenda which explored ‘points of contact’ between the pairs of teachers including: subject content and language; thinking skills; seeing ‘shape’ in content; co-pr...
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Austria - Dual Language Programme Course
Oct 21st and 22nd, 2011
Paedagogische Hochschuele, Vienna
Eva Poisel invited me to contribute to her DLP course programme, and I readily agreed, knowing what I do about the work of the subject teachers in the schools involved. Plus, after meeting the HTL teachers (see reports), I wanted to shout about teachers linking up with and communicating w...
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Austria - First HTL CLIL Conference
1st CLIL Conference for Austrian BMHS
April 3rd and April 4th, 2014
University of Education, Vienna
Grenzackerstraße 18
1100 Wien
This was quite simply a great event!
It's the first meeting for a network of teachers from schools around Austria, all working in CLIL.
I've been teaching at the University ...
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Austria - HTL CLIL Course Module 1
PH Vienna
October 13th, 14th and 15th, 2011
The first thing to say about this course is that it takes place under a government which is implementing a programme of legislation to see all HTL schools (HTLs are upper-secondary technical and vocational colleges (for electronics, informatics, construction engineering, etc.) teaching at...
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Austria - HTL CLIL English Teachers Course Traunkirchen
CLIL English teachers' course - Equipping English teachers for CLILTraunkirchen
October 18th and 19th, 2011
I had met Hans Kloibhofer previously at a training event in Linz and when he approached me to return to carry out some training for his colleagues, I readily agreed. I had in the back of my mind th...
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Austria - Linz CLIL Workshop
CLIL Workshop
Linz
2nd-3rd March, 2010
Hosted and accommodated by a regional training centre for agricultural colleges in the city of Linz.
I have to admit that I was a little daunted by the fact that the group of colleagues, teachers and trainers who were coming to attend the two-day CLIL workshop were from such diverse back...
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Austria - PH Tirol Language Across the Curriculum Training
7 Day Workshop for Language Across the Curriculum
Paedagogisches Institut for Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria (www2.pi-tirol.at)
16 – 23 March, 2005
The Austrian government is reforming secondary education and one outcome will be that students will be able to opt for oral exmination in subjects from their content curriculum through the m...
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Austria - SprachenForum5
SprachenForum5 - CLIL in Austria
I took part in a lively and enjoyable discussion on CLIL in Austria recently.
I didn't really have a good idea in my mind what the event would actually be like before I got there. Of course, we'd had the plenary talk on CLIL past, present and future at the KPH in Linz earlier in the year, and that was to be ...
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Austria - SprachenForum5
SprachenForum5 - CLIL in Austria
I participated in a live discussion on CLIL in Austria recently and I promised to follow up with a few things for the teachers who participated.
This short report is my fulfilling that promise and one document you can find at the foot of the page is a list of sites and networks several colleagues asked fo...
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Austria - SprachGastein 2018
Austria - Sprachenforum International 2018
I was privileged to participate in this important conference in Austria organized by the CEBS association.
You can find a host of papers and abstracts from the conference at the CEBS website - https://www.cebs.at
I gave an interactive talk on how soft skills can be exploited to build a bridge ...
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Austria - Vienna CLIL Workshop
CLIL Workshop
Vienna
March 4th and 5th, 2010
This was a one and a half day workshop plus a half day workshop. The course within which I was asked to participate as a trainer has been running for a considerable time already and the first group I met was a new group. The course is known as the Dual Language Programme and there are a numbe...
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Austria - Vienna University Journal
The University of Vienna department of Linguistics have an active and productive team working in CLIL.
They have produced a number of interesting collections of articles online. While the materials seem to move location over the years, with a search you can still find them via their website:
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Austria - Winter of Austrian CLIL
Vienna, Linz and Wiener Neustadt, Jan 11 - 17, 2012
I spent 6 days in Austria last week working with 3 groups of teachers from HTL Schools, or Technical High Schools, all now getting their heads around offering their technical curriculum through the medium of English. This is a move which the Austrian Ministry of Education has legislated to be compu...
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Bahrain - Content and Language in Bahrain
The British Council organized a very busy programme of events in Bahrain.
The idea was to interact with a wide network of teachers and trainers on the topic of content and language integrated learning.
We met hundreds of colleagues in meetings spread over two days,
Nov 7th-8th, 2007.
Day 1, Wednesday Nov 7th
Christina Phelps (Ch...
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Brasil - Content and language integrated learning in Brasil
Content and Language Integrated Learning in Brazil
We received a short report from the current director of English language projects at the British Council in Brasil on where content and language integrated learning is in Brazil, 04.10.07
Here at the British Council in Brazil, we are working to promote teacher development through online com...
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Bulgaria - Back to Preps
Back to School...
It was with great pleasure that I stepped back into the Prep class at the English/German School Plovdiv this year.
I've been sitting in my office busy writing stuff all this last year and was getting a bit of cabin fever from the isolation, so something had to be done. With not a little concern about how much the s...
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Bulgaria - BETA Conference 2010 Veliko Turnovo
Note - Dobri and I are offering to bring the rocket workshop to schools in Bulgaria. All you have to do is get in touch and agree a date with us and we'll bring all that is needed.
If you think your students would enjoy it, get in touch!
The Bulgarian English Teachers Association Conference
Veliko Tarnovo, April 2010
Rocket workshop...
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Bulgaria - Beyond the Classroom Workshop
Bulgaria - Beyond the Classroom Workshop
This is a series of workshops being given around Bulgaria organized by Macmillan publishers in Bulgaria. It's part of an ongoing series of teacher professional development which we're all very thankful to Yordan Stoyanov for his impeccable organization. Thanks Dan!
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Bulgaria - Bits and Pieces Seminar
This seminar has a bit of everything in it
Dec 12th, 2008, Sofia
The last Macmillan workshop for 2008 took place at the host school Saint Patriarh Evtimii on Friday Dec 12th 2008.
The workshop PPT can be downloaded from here at the bottom of the page.
As it was the last for the year, and we’d already run through most of ...
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Bulgaria - Chemistry as a Cultural Enterprise Gorna Malina
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
It happens once in a while that you get to participate in a truly splendid educational moment. This is one for me. ...
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Bulgaria - Chemistry as a Cultural Enterprise Plovdiv
School Partnerships Project Meeting
Ezikova Gimnazia Plovdiv
May 26th, 2010
The Ezikova Gimnazia Plovdiv is part of a project proposal under the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme.
The theme is:
Chemistry as a cultural enterprise
We organised a first meeting in our school of students and teachers for Wednesday May 26t...
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Bulgaria - CLIL for Professional and Vocational Schools
CLIL for Business, Economics, Marketing and Finance
I've carried out a number of events recently for teachers in small groups, in some cases with teachers just from a single host school. The content has been predominantly focused on the subject areas of Business Studies, Economics, Marketing, Finance and a number of others, but this has made...
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Bulgaria - Communicating Science
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.
Sofialand, Bulgaria
School teachers and students from all over Bulgaria came tog...
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Bulgaria - Culture Seminar
This seminar was delivered in Pleven
Who made this pile of rubbish?
Don't be surprised by the title above and on our homepage. This was a quality workshop. We just used a lot of rubbish to talk about culture. It's actually an activity from Science Across the World and fantastic fun where you get your students to exam bags of rubbish ...
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Bulgaria - Culture Seminar
Teaching Culture with a small 'c'
Plovdiv, Feb 6th, 2009
26 teachers came together to a workshop on the theme of "teaching culture with a small c' today in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Many thanks to the seminar hosts at the Humanities Grammar School 'Saints Kiril i Metodii' (http://www.ghp-plovdiv.org/)
I always enjoy venues like this one ...
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Bulgaria - Culture Seminar
Teaching Culture with a small 'c'
Macmillan seminars in Bulgaria, Sofia, Friday October 3rd, 2008
This seminar looked at the area of culture with a small ‘c’. Participants looked at culture which has nothing to do with Shakespeare, nothing to do with Milton, nothing to do with great architecture and nothing to do at all with the Royal O...
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Bulgaria - EDS Alumni Talks - Max on Languages and Communication
Returning Alumni Talks
Talk 1 - Maksim Baldzhiev
Communications and Languages
English-German Grammar School
Feb 10th, 2010
It was a great pleasure to have Max back in school.
Obviously a communicator, Max used a few slides as visual context to his informative and amusing talk.
Quite a traveller, Max had plenty of ...
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Bulgaria - EDS Just a minute
Preparatory Class, EDS Plovdiv, 2008-2009
A lesson preparing for the oral exam - preparing an 1-2 minute
introduction about yourself.
June 10th, 2009
A minute on your self
I was asked to take lessons with the Prep class in my school recently with a focus to help them prepare for their oral exam.
I've b...
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Bulgaria - European Parliament
Zlatarski International School at the European Parliament
The Euroscola on 27th March 2009, Strasbourg
A teacher’s diary
By Lyubov Dombeva
Day 1 - Wednesday 25th March 2009
Early morning before dawn, cold wind carry drifting snow when the bus takes off from Sofia to Strasbourg. Before we know it, it’s time for border control at ...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals
Journals of the Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching
Colleagues may remember the CLIL journal produced over three years by colleagues in Bulgaria. The journals were produced voluntarily and were printed with the support of the British Council in Bulgaria. The covers were designed by our students and the news and materials written by our colle...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 01
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 01
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
Year 9 Geography; year 9 Biology; Geog and upper-int general English; year 9 History; letters to the network; CETEFL; Lingua Funding; Science Across the World in Bulgaria; Discussion - needs and standards; Internet sites an...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 02
~Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 02
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
Free 'Total Cloze' software, a story from the American College in Sofia, Science and Language teaching, Concept maps, Jigsaw reading in Science, Cellular metabolism, Parodies, History of Bulgaria, Organisms and the Environ...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 03
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 03
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
Varn Summer School report; IATEFL BG 9th National Conference; Bi-Ed biology innovations; graphics teaching History in FL; test in National Economy; chemistry dominoes game; questions biology test; To Chicago and Back; Drope...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 04
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 04
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
anti-Conference report; verse work; UK book project; History - Puritan Revolution (GB, BG); DR(open) Bricks; Dickens nerves; The Reformation; ideas for texts
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 05
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 05
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
Walsh's Modern World History; Digestion Rap; Polar Bears; Crossword; World Water Day; Soaps and Detergents; Learning Objectives; Team Work; Student Humour; Chemical Poetry
PDF files of each section of the journal:<...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 07
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 07
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
Quality English; Atomic Structure; Carbon, Oxygen Cycles; Water Cycle; Experiment; Language for Thinking; Le Projet SCALA; PORTFOLIO
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 08
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 08
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
Science Across Europe update; CELTA; EFL Teacher Training Methodology; Portfolio Pédagogie; Varna Summer School; Evolution; Biology Creative Writing; Travel Story; Travel Notes; Correspondence; History Museum Biology Lesson...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 09
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 09
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
History Foreign Language; Conferences; Gastfreundschaft; Young Physicists Tournament; Teaching Subjects in Foreign Lanugages; Oldenburg; Косе Босе Booklaunch; Correspondence; Tallinn Report; Bulgarische Lehrerinnen; Единств...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 10
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 10 Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
EAC Project Update; Varna Summer School; Correspondence; Slovenian ESP; Science Biological Weapon; Aquarium Without Fish/Acuario Sin Peces; Cloning Tech; Science Conversation; Kindergarten Collaboration; Health Matters Awards; Proce...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 12
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 12
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
Bulgarian Art History (Анна Йосифова); Animal Idioms; Ortenburg European Education Strategy (БГ); Eine Zehnjahrige Partnershaft; Finland Workshops; Weather English; EU and BG Teachers; History Documents; Romanian School-based Cu...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 14
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching Journal Issue 11
Key terms from the articles and lessons in this journal are:
Education in Bulgaria; European History and Communication; European Association of Teachers Committee; Teaching Science through English; Topic-based Language Teaching; CLIL Trainer Training
Content:
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 18
This is issue 18 of the FACTWorld Journal, Autumn 2018.
Many thanks to ELICIT-PLUS for part sponsoring this 18th issue of the FACTWorld journal!
Many thanks to Hristiyana Blagoeva for the art used for the cover, and thanks to the children of Anglia School for their lovely artwork!
You can download the entire pdf version of Journal 18 at the ...
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 19
Contents:
Soft Skills – a bridge between language CLIL and content CLIL...............................3
Keith Kelly
Two CLIL lessons:
Topic: Fake news! Historic photography real and manipulated.................................13
Thomas Ziegelwagner
Pressemitteilung zur internationalen Lehrertagung 1.-5.10. in Innsbruck..............
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Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 20
A Bulgarian once said to me that good things take time, and the best could take forever. Well, Issue 20 of the FACTWorld Journal has been a long time coming, so it must be really good!
The theme is waste and sustainability and celebrates the 20th anniversary of the FACTWorld network with proceedings from the Pre-Conference day at the Bulgarian Engli...
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Bulgaria - FACT Meeting - CLIL
FACT Meetings return!
The European Association of Teachers (AEDE) and Anglia School are collaborating to provide ongoing professional development meetings for teachers.
The first meeting will focus on good examples of CLIL (content and language integrated learning), showing a range of resources, activities and projects which will be of inte...
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Bulgaria - FACTWorld 10 years old!
The FACT group is ten years old this year!
05th Oct, 2009
We kept it a little bit quiet, mainly because although we would have loved to celebrate and have a big party where everyone of the three thousand plus colleagues in the network all come to Bulgaria to help put this event down in history, though we'd love to do have done ...
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Bulgaria - FACTWorld 20th Anniversary
The BETA Conference in Plovdiv began on May 3rd with a pre-conference event organized by FACTWorld with a focus on 'Waste in the Curriculum' and we had a rich and fruitful afternoon together.
We managed to bring together two plenary talks and 4 consecutive workshops focusing on waste and sustainability and considering that this was within a conference f...
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Bulgaria - Interculturalising Education
New course for teachers on creating school links through the curriculum
Plovdiv, July 9th to 17th, 2009
It's great to announce that it is possible from now on to apply for the course:
- Interculturalising Education: Content, Language and Culture for Schools Links and Partnerships.
You’ll find a link to the programme outl...
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Bulgaria - IT Seminar
ICT in the classroom
Friday, Nov 21st, 2008
We're grateful once again to our host school, Sv Patriarh Evtimii, Sofia
There was a lot of interest among colleagues at previous workshops for something dealing with ICT in the classroom, especially in the light of the generous gift from the Ministry of Ed to teachers of a free l...
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Bulgaria - Life Skills Workshop
A workshop on integrating the teaching of life skills and the English language.
I was asked by Macmillan publishers in Bulgaria to prepare a workshop based on a coursebook, Open Mind, which has at its heart the aim to teach so-called 'soft skills' alongside the English language.
I liked the idea of a curriculum which starts with skills as o...
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Bulgaria - Oral Exam Prep
Preparatory Class, EDS Plovdiv, 2008-2009
A lesson preparing for the oral exam - preparing a talk on the topic of travel.
Jan 6th, 2009
The students in the preparatory class have a intensive programme of study for the first year in the English language. My role working with them is to help prepare them for the oral exam. I...
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Bulgaria - PhotoEnglish
Learning Photography in English
Along with my friend and colleague, Keith Halstead, we’ve put together a course of photography in English starting in September 2015.
Anglia School works mainly with very young children, aged 2 to 10 and we do it well. The young learners groups are largely full and we’ve been oversubscribed for our summer programm...
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Bulgaria - Project Work Seminar
The Macmillan seminar in Bulgaria took place at the Rila Hotel in the heart of the city of Sofia.
June 12th, 2008
One of the colleagues commented that the hotel was a favourite with the party elite once upon a time and that we may have been working in a room that once hosted the likes of Todor Zhivkov. We had our own balcony over ce...
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Bulgaria - Pronunciation Seminar
Practical Ideas for Teaching Pronunciation in the Classroom
Sofia
Friday, May 29th, 2009
I think this workshop could easily have been renamed ‘YouTube Pronunciation’ as that’s where most the focus examples came from.
Host: Patriarh Evtimii Junior School, Sofia
You can download the PPT here below.
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Bulgaria - Receptive Skills and Speaking Seminar
These two seminars in Bulgaria took place in Sofia and Stara Zagora
The titles were:
- Receptive Skills - Listening and Reading
- Speaking and Drama - Fluency and Accuracy more here
In Receptive Skills - Listening and Reading we discussed what makes a good listener. In short the conclusion was that a good listener is someone...
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Bulgaria - Receptive Skills Seminar
The seminar was delivered in Haskovo
June 5th, 2008
We were hosted by the Asen Zlatarov School in Haskovo and teachers came from all the Science subjects, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics and a English language teaching colleague came all the way from Dimitrovgrad for the workshop.
The contents of the workshop were the same a...
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Bulgaria - Receptive Skills Seminar
This seminar was delivered Varna and Burgas, Bulgaria.
29th May, 2008
It's been about 5 years since I was last in Varna and so it was nice to return and to meet up with a large group of teachers, a good number I already knew.
Yordan Stoyanov, Dan, Macmillan rep in Bulgaria, booked us into the Aqua Hotel in Varna.
Handing out ...
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Bulgaria - School for Tourism and Economics
Lesson on Tertiary Economy, Tourism and Development
Velingrad, 21st May, 2009
I had an invitation recently to give a Geography lesson in the Technical School for Tourism and Economics in the Bulgarian Rhodope mountain Spa town of Velingrad.
The school was interested in offering an open lesson to its teachers and others a focus l...
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Bulgaria - Science Across the Balkans
This event is old news, but I came across a paper photo of the group which is such a lovely reminder that I thought I'd put it here just in case any of the group are visiting and might like a copy.
This was one of our first major activities which brought together colleagues from all over Europe and which led to the creation of the FACTWorld website ...
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Bulgaria - Science and Maths Education
Maths and Science Education in Bulgaria
With the election of a new government in Bulgaria and the possibility of a concerted effort to bring good management to a country desperate to see exactly that, I put this page together to satisfy my own curiosity.
It sets out how Bulgaria has been performing in Science and Maths since 19...
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Bulgaria - Supplementing your primary classroom
Supplementing your primary classroom.
I was asked to prepare a workshop for Macmillan in Bulgaria with a focus on ideas and resources for primary teachers to move learning beyond their classrooms.
There is a flier here and invitation for the upcoming workshops in Varna (Nov 19th and Burgas Nov 20th 2015).
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Bulgaria - Varna Summer School 2004
Summer Course - Varna '2004
“FACT IV” - CREATE CULTURE THROUGH SCIENCE: WATER
Networking and Training for Content and Language
Integrated Learning
(05.07 - 09.07.2004)
Organizers: Forum for across the Curriculum Teaching Group and Science across the World
Partners: The Ministry of Education and Science, Shumen Univer...
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Bulgaria - Vocabulary Seminar
Vocabulary Seminar, Blagoevgrad
March 21st, 2008
We set off from Sofia in the snow and arrived to the sunshine in southern Bulgarian town of Blagoevgrad.
The beautiful former Solunska Gimnazia hosted the workshop
We looked at vocabulary and it was great to see 18 teachers turn out for the meeting among whom we had Sci...
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Bulgaria - Vocabulary Seminar
The seminar tour started in The English - German School, Plovdiv, Feb 22, 2008
Many thanks to Marianna Gencheva, senior English Expert at the Regional Inspectorate of Education in Plovdiv for her assistance in making this even happen and bringing in nearly 30 teachers to the workshop.
The topic of the workshop was 'vocabulary'.
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Bulgaria - World Sustainability Week
World Sustainable Development Week!
Zlatarski School, Sofia
19th to 23rd Oct, 2009
Many thanks to colleague Lyubov Dombeva for keeping us up to date with what has been going on in her school. In fact, the whole team of teachers involved in Zlatarski School's initiatives for this important week should be applauded.
You can rea...
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Bulgaria Course - Putting CLIL into Practice
The CLIL Courses – Putting Secondary CLIL into Practice (PSCIP) and Putting Primary CLIL into Practice (PPCIP) – offer a comprehensive combination of CLIL theory and practice with the aim of equipping teachers with the ideas and skills they need to help their students work through curriculum material in English, and support students when they are asked to sp...
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Cafe CLIL
Café CLIL - A place to come and talk about (and listen to) the issues.
The recordings you will find here are all from volunteers interested in the area of foreign language medium education. The Café CLIL discussions began in December 2008 simply as a way of promoting sharing and discussion of the issues related to work in the a...
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Cafe CLIL Discussion 01 - Getting started in CLIL
Café CLIL
Discussion_01: Getting started
Dec 19th, 2009
The recording of the discussion is available in
YouTube and is the first of what we hope will be many discussions on CLIL in all its aspects.
The two colleagues who joined me for discussion are Bernd Merlock and Lauretta D'Ang...
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Cafe CLIL Discussion 03: CLIL TT
Discussion 03_Content_TT
What goes into a training course for content CLIL teachers?
27.02.09
We were joined by Peach Richmond, Lauretta D'Angelo, Lida Schoen and Egbert Weisheit. Introductory text from colleagues new to the discussion follows here as well as a contact email.
The recording of the discussion can be found at this
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