1. "Baby" CLIL: English and Math Hand
in Hand
By
Margarita Kosior

2. What is CLIL?
• Content and Language Integrated Learning
• Classrooms where a language other than the ss'
mother tongue is used as medium of instruction
• Learning through acquisition rather than through
explicit learning
• Use of foreign language for 'authentic
communication'

3. Math around us
• Playing store (money / value recognition)
• Hopscotch
• Using counting for understanding time

4. Math – indicative content
Age: 3-4
• Lines
• Colors
• Opposites
• Position words (above, below, beside, inside,
outside, up, and down)
• Shapes
• Numbers 1-10

5. Math – indicative content
Age: 4-5
• Lines
• Colors – revision
• Shapes – revision
• Numbers 1-10 – revision
• Numbers 11-20
• Sums and subtractions

6. Math – indicative content
Age: 5-6
• Revision:
– Shapes
– Numbers 1-20
• Math problems (sum and subtraction)
• Ordering and sequencing

7. Books
Age: 3-4
• Books

8. Books
Age: 3-4 – cont’d

9. Other activities
Age: 3-4 – cont’d
• Lines

10. Other activities
Age: 3-4 – cont’d
• Colors: primary and secondary colors

11. Other activities
Age: 3-4 – cont’d
• Shapes
– Snowman
– Ice-cream
– Blocks of flats with
square windows

12. Other activities
Age: 3-4 – cont’d
• Counting
– Ladybug
– Apple tree

13. Stories
Age: 3-4
• Colors and couting

14. Online resources
Numbers
Age:3-4
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

15. Online resources
Colors
Age:3-4
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

16. Online resources
Colors
Age:3-4

17. Games
• Opposites

18. Books
Age: 4-5

19. Books
Age: 4-5 – cont’d

20. Other activities
Age: 4-5
• Identify numbers by shape

21. Other activities
Age: 4-5 – cont’d
• Addition: adding and counting machine

22. Books
Age: 5-6

23. Books
Age: 5-6 – cont’d

24. Books
Age: 5-6 – cont’d

25. Other activities
Age: 5-6
• Spelling number words: where spelling and
math meet

26. Other activities
Age: 5-6 – cont’d

27. Other activities
Age: 5-6 – cont’d
http://www.communication4all.co.uk/Numeracy/Lilypad%20n
umber%20line%20game.pdf

28. Online resources
Age: 5-6
http://www.kidogarten.com/en/home

29. Online resources
Age: 5-6 – cont’d
http://www.kidogarten.com/en/home

30. Songs
Available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKPyO2vJEME

31. Songs
– cont’d
• How Many?
Available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3zaC5onBvM

32. Benefits

33. Benefits – cont’d
• Overall linguistic competence
• Improved oral functional production

34. Benefits – cont’d

35. Concerns and challenges
• How much target language to use?
• Time-consuming

37. “One language sets you in a corridor
for life. Two languages open every
door along the way.”
Frank Smith

39. Resources
Online resources:
• http://clil-network.uta.fi/index.php?id=18
• http://www.goethe.de/ges/spa/dos/ifs/ceu/en2751287.htm
• http://www.moed.bm/academics/Parental%20Information/Bermuda
%20Preschool%20Standards%20(NJ%20Adopted)/Bermuda%20Presc
hool%20Standards%20(NJ%20adopted).pdf
Books:
Carol Medcalf, Collins Easy Learning – Numbers: Age 3-5
Vincent Douglas, Total math: Preschool
Penny Dowdy, Shapes and Patterns (Get Ready for Preschool)
Penny Dowdy, Shpes and Patterns (Get Ready for Reception)
School Specialty Publishing, Brighter Child Coors and Shapes, Preschool
School Specialty Publishing, Brighter Child Numbers 1-10, Preschool
Carol Vonderman, Math Made Easy: Shapes and Patterns