Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 40

Bulgaria - FACT Journals Issue 40

Continuing our celebration of the FACT Journal 25th anniversary jubilee, we have a journal dedicated to CLIL for Very Young Learners.
It has taken several months to get this issue together because it involves two visiting groups to Anglia School's course Putting CLIL into Practice one from France and the other from Italy, as well as a contribution from a colleague in Spain.
The first section offers an early years collection of lessons which was produced by two teachers from France from preprimary and primary visiting our course in April 2024. These dear friends decided to focus on materials for developing the UNSDGs in their young learner classes. Their material has been produced to link directly with two UNSDGs: 2 – Zero Hunger and 12 – Responsible Consumption. You’ll see that as we worked together during the week’s training, the materials we created revolved around picturebooks.
Later in the year we had a visit from a group of 7 Italian preschool teachers for our course and their chosen focus was Intercultural Communicative Competence for very young learners. These colleagues visited our preschool classes for a week of ‘culture’ and the session notes are also included in this collection.
The next section, then, presents the lessons our Italian friends participated in. Imagine that, an entire week of culture classes for young learners. There are lots of ideas for you if you’d like to develop culture in your early years curriculum.
As part of their week with us, the Italians also produced lessons with a culture focus. They chose to develop materials on the themes of ‘Lunch’ and ‘Autumn’. These are included in both Italian and English.
Last, but by no means least, we have a welcome contribution from a colleague in Spain with tips for aligning English language teaching and learning with L1 Pre-Primary projects.
I hope you enjoy this collection! Please share and help us celebrate our 25th birthday!
Happy birthday to us!

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