This lesson uses OS map and aerial photography to look at the locational factors for a car factory. Student use the map to find evidence of the reasons for the location of the Peugeot factory in Coventry. this factory has now closed but a similar exercise could be replicated for other UK car factories. It will show you how to use Geographical map work skills and French to achieve a good outcome .

This lesson looks at the adaptations that desert animals have to ensure their survival. It uses video clips , extracts from the handbook and powerpoints to provide students with knowledge and understanding which can then be applied to the design of a desert animal . the desert animal design forms an end of unit assessment. Students love this !! There are word frames and some student exemplars

This lesson looks at rainfall processes, anticyclones and the working of the Hadley cell. It looks at the difference between day and night in the desert. It uses video clips, powerpoint , rainfall cards and climate graphs to convey concepts. The concluding exercise looking at the difference between day and night enables the student to assimilate many of the concepts studied previously. This lesson exemplifies the notion of high level conceptual input with lower level language needs which enable the student to access the thinking .

This lesson starts with the students drawing what they think a stereotypical desert is . It end with a comparison of their drawing with what they have learnt in the lesson. There are extracts from authentic text plus video clips with sub titles and listening cards.

This course was based on the French Geography CLIL course on Mapwork . Colleagues Lauren Kimble , Chris Scott and Maren Blume all helped to transfer this into German . The students loved it . The lesson plans take you through the whole unit of work. The unit ends with an assessment where students use maps to design a tour for a German family in their local area. There is a student handbook which the students used as a workbook to write in as well as a reference resource .

This lesson starts with an activity that is really fun and has a strong message about giving directions. Students have to describe how to get to a place in the school using compass directions and paces. They then give the instructions in German to other students who have to find the place. they will discover that although compass directions are useful , they also need accurate measurements as students’ paces will vary . This may take a whole lesson before going on to develop the lesson on 4 and 6 figure grid references . When delivering the 4 and 6 figure lesson always take care to make sure that everyone gets the idea of 4 figure before going onto 6 figure . To make sure that those who grasp it quickly are involved all the time, give them the role as a student supporter who goes around the class helping others. Also get students up at the front of the class to demonstrate how they got their answers .

Lesson plan in resource on unit overview . The first lesson on rainforest structure is a video based lesson using a David Attenborough resource . This helps to introduce key concepts and specialist vocab. Unfortunately the powerpoint with the video link will not load . The video to use is available on Bing video and Daily motion. Just google David Attenborough the Living Planet episode 4 Jungle .

This is a living graph activity . See the methodology booklet for details of how to teach it .

These resources don’t include a picture of a potato being used to demonstrate contour lines . However there are details of how to do this in the map skills scheme of work . Drawing lines on the potato to represent contours and then drawing a bird’s eye view of the concentric circles from above help the students to visualise the transition from 3 D to 2D .

Scale is difficult conceptually. That is why students start by drawing a bird’s eye view of a bedroom . They then use OS maps and look at who may use each scale of map .

This unit was the second unit taught for one hour a week as part of a whole year course of geography in German in Year 7 . The first unit taught was mapwork. The rainforest unit build on the mapwork unit as it gradually build up more sentence construction . The first assessment on rainforest adapatation involves independent research skills, description and explanation but based on a A3 poster of rainforest structure . The second assessment is based on a group work activity to design a campaign to save orangutans . The French unit on tropical rainforests was more extensive and involved a trial followed by an essay on tropical rainforest deforestation. If you look at how these pieces of work are constructed it is possible to translate the materials used in the French CLIL to German if you wish to use the French materials for guidance . This unit on tropical rainforests was translated into German by Chris Scott and Maren Blume . The lesson plans to guide this unit are contained in the methodology booklet . There is a section in the second half of this booklet which describes how the unit is put together and how to teach it . The rainforest handbook is available here but sections from it which relate to each lesson are included to download . The handbook can be printed for students to annotate and use as a reference resource . There are video clips of the activities included in the rainforest unit being taught in french on the Chenderit DCSF video available in the predagogy section of my shop .

Students first learn about the types of climate tp affect France and then produce their own weather forecast using the powerpoint slides of weather conditions to identify temp.rainfall , wind direction but also which weather systems are dominating ie anticyclones or depressions. They write the French onto the blank powerpoint slides and then can present the forecast to the class.

Lesson 2 of unit on weather and climate. This is an introduction to all of the instruments used to measure the weather. Students have to create a game.

https://learningthroughlanguages.org.uk/learning-and-teaching-materials/french/ The above website contains most of my resources for free download . However the following resource contains some of the remaining units of work which may be of use. Please read the copyright document section on weather and climate before use. The first document contains copies of the handbook for weather and climate which students were given as a workbook/textbook. Subsequent files which will be uploaded separately contain the lesson resources, lesson by lesson plus another handbook on micro-climate

This website contains FREE CLIL resources for teachers . Judith Woodfield has copies of an entire Year 7 course for Geography in French with some units in German and an entire Year 8 course for Geography in French . Year 7 Mapwork Year 7 Tropical Rainforests Year 8 Deserts Year 8 European Union There is also a Year 6 day module on the hydrologcal cycle. Just google Learning Through Languages UK to find the website. There is also free CPD on CLIL throughout the year. Previous talks given by Judith Woodfield are also available as well as CLIL experts from around the world.

This unit is linked to other units on primary , secondary and tertiary industry plus case studies of the car industry, tourism and retailing .This unit uses agriculture as a case study looking at current issues in agriculture. It uses Britanny in France as a location charting changes in the intensification of agriculture that have happened since 1940. There is a case study on the green algae that has impacted on Britanny’s beaches and its causes and effects are identified. There is an assessment where students have to write letters for and against intensif farming . There are video clips and interactive activities to brng the unit to life . There is a student handbook, although a few pages on the topic of agricuture appear blank. This is because the images were orginally stuck in before copying. These missing images are included in the lesson resources as picture files. There are are pieces of exemplar student work .

Lesson plans in unit overview methodology document page 22 onwards Handbook extracts in word This lesson uses interactive video card activities to introduce animal adaptations. Plant adaptations and structure identified. Assessment combines research skills in French .

Please read copyright doc and refer to lesson plan and student handbook in mapwork unit resource. This is a difficult lesson for many students. Students fill in their answers in their booklets and I usually go around the class to check that every student has correct answers to the 4 figure references before going onto 6 figure. If there are students who find this difficult then I also get other students to support until the whole class is confident. I also get students up to the front to demonstrate how they get the answers as this helps less confident students.

This lesson contains powerpoints and powerpoints which can be made into cards for use with the powerpoint. The student booklet available in the unit overview has a page where students can enter their answers. There are links for homework to consolidate learning. The first powerpoint to use is the one which identifies common symbols and asks students to understand the concept of a symbol and why it is used. The further resources use symbols from ordnance survey maps. Please read copyright document available on unit overview. There is a video clip of this activity being taught on the CLIL cpd videos resource. The lesson plan is in the unit overview resource.

Students play a nine number board game to introduce rainforests then they produce a map to identify the location of the forest . There is a video clip of the introduction activity on the video clip of Chenderit school contained in the resource called CLIL video clips for cpd . NB detailed plans for lessons contained in unit overview methodology booklet The handbook in pdf in the unit overview is included in section in word in case you find it useful to edit and use lesson by lesson