The Fitzwilliam Museum works with Modern Languages PGCE students at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, to support the embedding of museum and gallery collections in their teaching, using Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) describes a pedagogic approach in which the foreign language and a second subject area content are learnt in combination. Learners process and use the foreign language to gain new knowledge and skills in this other subject area. The overall aim of the project is to understand how CLIL may be used in an out of school context, considering ways of using resources that are not normally associated with foreign language teaching. As a result, it is hoped that trainee teachers and partnership school teachers will be inspired to engage with CLIL both within and outside the classroom in the future.
The development of these digital CLIL resources by University of Cambridge PGCE languages trainees in conjunction with the Fitzwilliam Museum will enable schools to engage with the approach from a distance. On this page you can download the resources the PGCE students created.
![A large red granite lid of sarcophagus. There are three images of people carved into the granite, standing up. The central figure is male and protrudes from the lid, facing the viewer. His arms are crossed across his chest and he wears a beard, headpiece, and crown of feathers and horns. The two women either side of him face him and have their hands on his waist. The lid is broken on the right, and the side and the feet have been filled in in white plaster.](https://schools.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/E_1_1823-1.jpg)
CLIL Project Teacher Notes – Ancient Egypt (Word document)
CLIL Project Teacher Notes – Ancient Egypt (PDF)
Ancient Egypt Student Booklet (Word document)
Ancient Egypt Student Booklet (PDF)
These resources were all created by ML PGCE students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.
![A painitng of a row of poplar trees, waving to and fro from the foreground to the background. They are surrounded by a clear blue sky. There is a thin line of green grass at the bottom of the painting.](https://schools.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/large_PD_9_1966_1_201104_adn21_dc2-1000x970.jpg)
CLIL Impressionist Paintings Lesson plan
CLIL Impressionist Paintings Student Handout
CLIL Impressionist Paintings Teacher Answer sheet
These resources were all created by ML PGCE students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.
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CLIL Portraits – Teacher’s Notes
CLIL Portraits – Student Handout – Travail écrit
These resources were all created by ML PGCE students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.
![A mannequin dressed in a medieval suit of armour sits on a lifesize horse model, which is also dressd in armour](https://schools.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/M_1_1A_H_1936_M_11_13_1947_5_200810_mfj22_dc2-667x1000.jpg)
Horse armour: M.11-13-1947. Peytral, shaffron, and saddle with steels and stirrups, for heavy cavalry use. Decorated with fluting in the ‘Maximilian’ fashion.
These resources were all created by ML PGCE students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.