If you were not limited by the demands of the national/regional curriculum, what would you say is the most important thing you would teach your students about your subject (in a CLIL context)? How would you assess their learning?

If I weren’t not limited by the demands of the national/regional curriculum I would like to improve the social skills of my students. I think it’s a complete od the subject we have to work in class

We can define Social skills as the behaviours, verbal and non-verbal, that we use in order to communicate effectively with other people. Social skills are governed by culture, beliefs and attitudes. They continuously change and develop throughout our lives. Somebody that uses social skills to effectively interact with friends, family, workmates and strangers is said to have social competence.

Some examples of social skills are:

• Eye contact with others during conversation
• Smiling when greeting people
•  Shaking hands when meeting someone
• Using the right tone and volume of voice
• Flirting
• Expressing opinions to others
• Perceiving how others are feeling and showing empathy
• Appropriate emotional responses (e.g. crying when something sad happens; laughing when someone says something funny)

I think a CLIL context is an ideal scene to training these abilities, because we are supporting our way of communication. I think with the rol-playing and the performance, we have two techniques that allow us improve our speaking and listening skills and the social skills.