This session will start with a presentation of the English for Morocco Course Book project, a collaborative, open-source project to design and create a course book specifically for the Moroccan context. Mohamed Oummih will present a part of the course book’s scheme of work, and explain the overall structure of the book: each unit based in a different geographic locations or city in Morocco, with various strands related to language, skills, and content weaving their way through each of the units of the book. The strands in each unit will be related to the city that unit focuses on. Some of these strands include:

• Morocco tech

• Expat journal (Moroccans currently living abroad)

• Immigrant’s eye (non-Moroccans living in Morocco)

• Arab and Tamazight perspectives

• Moroccan mirror (aspects of Moroccan life shared with other societies)

In the second half of the session, participants will work together to brainstorm and elaborate the content of one or more of the course book units.

Part presentation, part workshop, the aim will be to come away with a work-in-progress that will grow into a national project to create a communicative English language course book that will grow out of, express, and represent Moroccan culture and context, so that Moroccan language learners are scaffolded and supported in their journey to learn English as an International Language

CLIL classes can be a real challenge for both primary and secondary school students. Often the gap between content and language can seem enormous, and teachers can sometimes feel overwhelmed. 
Jane Delaney will present a series of simple, practical (and fun!) activities aimed at making CLIL content more manageable in the classroom. She will talk about visible thinking routines and provide some top tips to not only manage the classroom, but get the students speaking and using English around the topic.

This session will be a workshop aimed at giving teachers a set of activities to take away with them to use in their CLIL or language lessons.