History for ESL students
I am in no way an expert in either history or CLIL, but as I’ve written this material and there didn’t seem to be much available when I was looking thought I may as well put my stuff out there in case it helps anyone. If anyone has any links to good stuff on the topic or wants to point out historical (or even historic) errors on mine, that’s what the comments box is for:
Conspiracy theories modals of possibility and probability
World history second conditional discussion questions
History vocabulary for ESL students- the Middle Ages
Interesting activities and topics about the Middle Ages for ESL classes
Interesting topics and activities about ancient history and prehistory for ESL classes
Combining history topics and English grammar (prepositions, determiners, reference words, passives, reported speech, Present Perfect, Simple Past, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Will, Second Conditional, Third and mixed conditionals, linking words, infinitive of purpose, modals, comparatives)
History themed art, craft and project ideas for ESL students
The main source I did find was the freebie worksheets from Onestopclil:
Christopher Columbus for primary students
Famous explorers for primary students
George Washington for secondary students
The Cold War for secondary students
If anyone wants more stuff and links to other suitable materials, I’ve got plenty somewhere and will dig it out.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Great work Alex. For me this is the future of our profession and students can handle this if they choose to do so. One of the aspects of CLIL I like mosty is that there is no ‘easy’ or ‘difficult’ language to be learned, just different ways of using language to say what you need to say to complete a piece of work.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:02 am
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April 21st, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Just randomly found Larry Ferlazzo’s page of history links:
http://larryferlazzo.com/geography.html
(yes, I know it says geography, but half of them are US history)
May 20th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Kudos, Alex! Do you know a World History textbook that is ESL friendly?
May 21st, 2009 at 8:58 am
Fraid not, had a good look but nothing. Would’ve saved me a lot of trouble if there had been one…
May 26th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Just noticed that Richmond has released a CLIL history book for secondary students called Essential History. Haven’t seen it, but can get someone a freebie copy if they will write me a review
July 7th, 2009 at 10:32 am
This looks like a really nice link for this
http://playinghistory.org/
Hat tip to Free Technology for Teachers
July 7th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I have been trying to get a copy of Essential History published by Richmond. I have e-mailed their divisions in Spain, UK, and FLorida, but none of them e-mailed me back. Alex, do you know some other ways I could get a copy? I am not that good at writing reviews
. Thanks!
July 9th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Anyone can write a review, honest. Will give you lots of help, and you’d get a copy for free…
July 7th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Hi, Alex. I realize that you offered to procure this “Essential History” in exchange for a review almost exactly one year ago, but if no one’s taken you up on it, yet, I’d be happy to oblige.