TKT CLIL - Knowledge and Principles of CLIL

Which is NOT an aim of CLIL?

• to focus on content vocabulary

• to develop communication and cognitive skills

• to raise awareness of citizenship

• to promote bi-cultural identity

BICS and CALP help learners accomplish two of the following:

• practise and improve basic conversational language.

• develop thinking skills for studying subjects

• use ICT across the curriculum

• do tasks such as copying and repeating new subject language

The matching between the language feature and example is correct in:

• It won't go on unless you change the battery. sequencing

• The Black Death killed millions of Europeans. passive

• Staff members should care for their safety. comparative

• Take short breaks while using a computer. collocation

In a CLIL Chemistry lesson, reaction, nuclear, and metal are examples of

• content-obligatory vocabulary

• content-compatible vocabulary

• high and medium frequency words

• collocations

What is CORRECT about this sentence? "Conditions improved as a result of better harvests".

• It describes cause and effect.

• It explains a point of view.

• It suggests a solution.

• It justifies a prediction.

What is the communicative function of this statement?

Her opinion in this article is that all animal testing is wrong.

• to clarify what's been said

• to evaluate work

• to give an example

• to explain a point of view

Choose the two tasks below that demand lower-order thinking skills.

• Classify the musical instruments into three sets

• Compare the rivers. Write three similarities and differences

• Imagine you had no electricity. How would it affect you?

• How would you change the experiment to ensure its fairness?

Choose the two tasks which demand higher order thinking skills.

• Read your partner’s report. Comment on its clarity.

• Record the data about rainfall on the graph.

• Look at the table of imports. Which have increased?

• Suggest two alternative solutions to the maths problem.

Which two statements are true about learning skills?

• can be artistic, mathematical, social, and interpersonal.

• need planning due to students' different consolidation paces

• include drafting, planning, evaluating, and reasoning

• must be the same in maths and in arts lessons.

CLIL aims to develop communication. Which one is NOT an example of that?

• Learners discuss how they set up their science experiments.

• Learners give PowerPoint presentations about solar energy.

• Learners evaluate reports using criteria about coherence.

• Learners must agree about the outcome of competition.