Using museum collections for CLIL

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Introduction and Context

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.

Ancient Egypt
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.
The sarcophagus lid of King Ramesses III, made 1200 BC.

Starter Activity – Flashcards

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)

Answer Booklet for Teachers

Plenary – Flashcards

These resources were all created by ML PGCE students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.

Impressionists
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.
Les peupliers. Translated title; Poplars. Monet, Claude (French, 1840-1926). Oil on canvas, height 89 cm, width 92 cm, 1891.

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.

Portraits
Elizabeth Vernon, Countess of Southampton. British School. Oil on canvas, height 188 cm, width 109 cm, circa 1603.

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.

The Armoury
A mannequin dressed in a medieval suit of armour sits on a lifesize horse model, which is also dressd in armour
Armour. Whole composite armour, for field or cavalry use, decorated with fluting in the Maximilian fashion. Production Place: South Germany. All dated around 1510-20, except the pair of gauntlets which are probably 19th century, but in the style of about 1510-20.
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.

CLIL Teacher plan – Armoury

These resources were all created by ML PGCE students from the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.

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