CLIL in DUBLIN 2017

Clil 3

Carlo Colombini (Italy)

Beata Gorczowska (Poland)

Emanuela Magni (Italy)

Renata Menaballi (Italy)

 SOUND AND ITS FEATURES

Secondary school
Age of the students: 16/17 (2nd or 3rd year)
Introductory unit (3 sessions)
LEARNING GOALS:

• WHAT SOUND IS
• DESCRIBING SOUND USING CALP
• WHAT SPEED OF SOUND DEPENDS ON
LISTENING…

4 sounds from Dublin:

Moore Street, buttery, in the pub, Grafton Street
… AND WATCHING

1 Video (only to introduce the subject)

1 Experiment (sound and vacuum)

INTRODUCING CALP 1

Video from Khan Academy (the first part till 2:50)

INTRODUCING CALP 1

CALP: amplitude, hearing, frequency, pitches,

highness, intensity…
FILL IN THE BLANKS
1. Pitch is the sensation of the …………………… of an emitted sound.
2. A high pitch sound is called a …………………… sound
3. A low pitch sound is called a …………………… sound.
4. Loudness of sound depends on ……………………
5. The two kinds of sounds we cannot hear are …………………… and
……………………
6. The number of vibrations completed in one second is known as
……………………
7. If the thickness of the vibrating string is increased its pitch ……………………
8. Noise is produced by ……………………
INTRODUCING CALP 2

Reading activity to revise previous CALP

and to introduce new ones
 SOUND
Everything a person hears is called sound. Sound is a vibration or wave
traveling through solids, liquids, or gases and can be heard. A sound begins by
some type of mechanical movement which can include a person playing an
instrument, a door slamming, or thunder in the sky. The molecules of these
objects vibrate and in turn cause the surrounding molecules to vibrate, thus
causing the sound to travel.
Without matter like a solid, liquid o gas, sound could not travel. It needs the
vibration of molecules from the matter in order for there to be a sound that can
be heard. Outer space is void of any objects and is a vacuum so there is no
sound and it is very quiet. The solid, liquid, or gas that transports the sound is
called a medium.
Next, the speed of sound is how fast the sound wave or the vibration travels
through the object, medium, or matter. Depending on whether it is a solid, liquid,
or gas, the sound will travel at different speeds. Sound will travel faster in water
than in air, but much faster in …

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/reading_comprehension/science/138/sound/
INTRODUCING CALP 2

CALP: speed, sound barrier, sonic boom, decibel,

acoustic…
A work in progress…