Teaching CLIL lesson...Jordan

 On the 28 of March 2019,  I conducted three hours of Clil lesson for 5th grade, 6th grade and 8th grade. The main aim of the lesson was to increase students-teacher talk. The objective of these lessons was that at the end of the lesson, students had known where Jordan located, remembered the name of the capital, some names of tourists and historical places listed in videos presented by the student teacher, also were able to produce well-constructed sentences related to their favourite tourist places in Jordan. I used three YouTube videos besides two handout questions sheets as supplementary material.  The student teacher started handing out the first part of the questions to warm the students up and to brainstorm for elicitation their geographic information and to discuss a student's answer.  After that, the student teacher used pre-teaching stage, which included revising vocabulary from the videos in order to do pronunciation repetition for some words like "amphitheatre, ancient, stumbled, the festival". And then, The student teacher gave a short speech and introduction about Jordan included geographic location, brief history, introduced to the most important historical places in Jordan such as Petra and The dead sea.

A Sample of Questions handouts to the students.

 After that, the student teacher showed students the location of Jordan on the world map in a short power point presentation, with other necessary information like the flag, capital and inhabitants. Student teacher presented three videos, the first video was about Amman, the second video was about Petra and the third video was about The dead sea. Then the student teacher gave the second part of handout questions which was related to the videos students watched, students read the questions in pairs or in groups and they discussed why he or she chose his favourite place in Jordan. At the end of the lesson, student teacher asked the students to give back their handout questions to check their handwriting, their English level and their geographic knowledge.

Students' names, the topic, date of the day in Arabic. 

To sum up, I can say that I managed the time well, I conducted the lesson well, even though the 5th-grade wasn't an easy class to deal with because students were noisy and hard to control. The rest was nice and I got immediate feedback from the students when they clapped their hands after I finished the lesson. Of course, the students were nicely surprised when they saw me writing from right to left in order to write their names in Arabic.
The feedback from my mentor teacher was positive despite he asked me to prove my English level and concentrate on how I pronounceed some words during my speech, I know that I have a problem sometimes in pronouncing P letter, I make it sounds like b instead of p and that refer to my mother tongue where we don't have strong p and try to avoid making mistakes in my speech.  Thank you for taking the time to read my blog:).