CLIL

GENERAL SKILLS

Reading:

Scanning for specific information

Decoding information-

Interpreting

Classifying

Writing:

Defining.

Describing characteristics, functions, processes, describing from visuals (flow chart, image, picture ...)

Expressing purpose.

Summarize.

Making mind maps.

Giving title to an image.

Writing a report.

Speaking:

Making hypotheses and describing information in a visual.

Making presentations.

Body language.

Making questions.

Discussing, agreeing / disagreeing. Giving reasons.

Thinking Skills

These are cognitive abilities that every one of us applies daily for studying, working, etc. They are long-life skills that lie beneath any human activity. Education aims exactly at developing and improving these abilitiesInformation processing skills (transforming data)

Reasoning skills (interpreting, deducting and giving reasons, problem solving, interpret, deduct, give reasons, pose questions, predict, test conclusions)

Enquiry skills (posing questions, planning research, predicting, testing conclusions)

Creative thinking skills (generating ideas, applying imagination)

Evaluation skills (evaluating information, criteria for judging)

(Thinking Skills from http://www.changeuponline.com/risorse/CLIL/01_34_CU_CLIL.pdf)