CLIL Lesson Plan
Form: 4th grade Time: 45 min
Topic Planets
Aim(s)
- To develop students content knowledge
- To foster language skills such as speaking, reading and listening
- To increase space awareness of planets
- To inquire about space and planets
- To provide material and information for further topic and language based studies
Teaching objectives Learning outcomes
A. Content A. Content
- Space - Students acquire the vocabulary related
- Planets in our solar system to the lesson
- Temperature on different planets - Students become acquaintance with the
solar system and planets
B. Cognition (functions) B. Cognition
- Evaluate: determine the possible - Students are able to describe the planets
outcomes of processes - Students understand what the solar
- Analyze: draw connections and system consists of
differences among different planets - Students identify planets properly
- Understand: discuss solar system and
identify the differences between planets
C. Communication
C.1 Language of learning (= topic specific essential vocab & grammar)
● Comparison of adjectives (superlative degree): the hottest, the coldest, the smallest, the
biggest
● Vocabulary: rock, ring, ice, gas, star, furthest, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
C.2 Language for learning (=language needed to operate in the learning
environment or in a particular lesson – discuss, justify, explain, etc)
Speaking activity: Look and guess
[Link] you know the names of the planets?
[Link] is the hottest?
3. Which is the coldest?
4. Which is the smallest?
5. Which is the biggest?
C.3 Language through learning
Project task: My Project. Choose a planet and write about it.
Materials & resources
CLIL lesson worksheets:
● Fly High 4 Pupil’s book + Activity book Jeanne Perrett, Charlotte Covill
● Listening task: The cold planet
[Link]
● Vocabulary
[Link]
Teaching plan (type, timing & sequence of activities)
Lead-in ● The teacher asks the students to look at the picture
(5 min) with planets and try to answer the questions about
them. (“Look and guess”)
● Questions
Pre-reading ● The teacher asks students to match names of the planets with
(5 min) pictures
●
● [Link]
Reading ● Students are asked to read the text, noticing and recording lexis.
(10 min)
● The planet nearest to the sun is Mercury. It's the
fastest planet. It goes around the sun very quickly. But it
is not the hottest planet. Venus is the hottest planet and
it is second nearest to the sun. The third planet is Earth.
It's the most beautiful planet in the solar system. The
next planet is Mars. It's smaller than Earth. The first
four planets are made of rock. Next to Mars is the
biggest planet, Jupiter. It's made of gas, not rock.
Jupiter hasn't got one moon like Earth, it's got sixteen!
The planet with the most moons is Saturn. It's got more
than sixty moons! It's the sixth furthest from the sun
and there are rings round it. They're rings of ice! Next is
Uranus. It's four times bigger than Earth. Then comes
Neptune. It's blue and beautiful. There are often storms
on Neptune. The last planet, furthest from the sun, is
Pluto. Pluto is the smallest planet. It's smaller than our
moon and it's the coldest planet too. Some people think
Pluto isn't a planet because it's very small.
After-reading ● Students read the questions and write the name of the planet.
(7 min)
Listening (5 ● Students listen and watch the video “The cold planet”
min) ● [Link]
net
After-listening ● Teacher gives worksheet with task “True or False”
(7 min) ● Students are asked to read the sentences after listening and
watching the video “The cold planet” and choose are they True or
False
Lead-out (5 ● Students place the planets in the correct order.
min)
Home task ● Students are asked to do home projects. They need to choose a
planet, draw it and write about some interesting facts.
Look and guess
[Link] you know the names of the
planets?
[Link] is the hottest?
3. Which is the coldest?
4. Which is the smallest?
5. Which is the biggest?
Let`s match