Teaching throuh CLIL

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Teaching throuh CLIL

 

Content language integrated learning is an integrial part of teaching and learning, if you are aware of this approach, this site is for you

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Here you’ll find a lot from biological issues to space and solar system.

This piece is connected with space exploration:

 

The year was 1957 – the Soviets launched the Sputnik Program. Their first attempt managed to orbit earth 1400 times and lasted 3 weeks. The second carried a passenger, a dog, and it orbited the earth for 5 months. By this time NASA was set to go. In Feb. 1958 the first American satellite, Explorer 1 was launched. It managed 58 000 orbits before it burned up while entering the earth’s atmosphere. For the next 10 years, both Russia and the U.S. were sending various spacecrafts into space. Finally in 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and the commander Neil Armstrong exited the craft. As he was about to take his first step on the moon, he transmitted back to earth "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

Since then, space exploration has continued, not just with the U.S. and Russia but with many more countries such as China, India, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. Canada has also played an intricate roll: 1) we were the third country to design and construct its own satellite, 2) we developed the CanadaArm which has been used on shuttle missions, 3) we have an astronaut program, 4) Canadian astronauts have flown on missions and 5) right now, we are contributing a robotic system to ISS, the International Space Station. A new telescope called the James Webb Telescope will be ready in 2011. Canada is building the FGS (Fine Guidance Sensor) which will enable the telescope to align the mirrors when it unfolds in space and it also will provide accurate tracking. (James Webb Space Telescope)

 

However, space was really being explored long before the Americans and the Russians started to send up satellites and shuttles. People have been exploring space for hundreds of years. Astronomers gazed up into the stars, saw movements of light and called them planets. Then, along came the telescope and more planets were soon found. Over time they were able to keep track of the stars and their movements.