Teaching English through Geography

Abstract

The initiative for creating a global community provides interests and opportunities among Armenian schools to teach different school subjects in English. Content and Language Integrated Learning is the method, which creates medium to elaborate language and content and helps students to communicate and express their own ideas and thoughts in different settings. Geography is chosen as a content medium for this CLIL course as it provides interesting topics, which could be used in students' everyday life, to develop content knowledge and to enhance their language skills and abilities. The deliverables of the course include a complete course with lesson plans and teaching materials, as well as reflections on the pilot of the course and course syllabus. Based on the piloting of the course at Experimental English Classes materials were adjusted to the level of students and goals of the project.

Keywords: Geography, CLIL, material development, course development.