HEALTHY BREAKFAST - CLIL lesson plan

Hi - thanks for this. But I think that in general, CLIL activities should emphasise (as priority) the learning objective. You say 'to teach students that breakfast is the most important meal of the day...' but that's not strictly true. That is a more complex objective and the contents of this lesson do not (necessarily) fulfil that. What will the students 'LEARN'? (better). Well...they'll learn that a healthy breakfast consists of X and X and that 'my healthy breakfast' is X. So the objective is 'The students will identify what food-types make up/constitute a healthy breakfast and then choose their own healthy breakfast from the options offered' The language arises from that objective. It's not the primary objective of the activity. If it is, it's not really CLIL. Apart from that, the materials are great!

Hi John. Nice materials. But it might be better to specify the objective in more content-based terms. I think that it's a little misleading to make 'language focus' the (implicit) priority here. Well - maybe that's not your intention, but your description of the conceptual objective '...teach students that breakfast is the most important meal of the day' isn't true, on the evidence of the materials. The objective (if you were obliged to write it for a teacher's guide) would be something like 'To analyse and identify the food types that constitute a healthy breakfast, and to choose (and then communicate/share/justify) their own healthy breakfast from the options offered'. The 'language focus' as such derives from this description. The language focus is not the objective of the lesson. if it is, it's not really CLIL. Best, Phil Ball