Reblogged from tools4clil:

"It’s excellent, give us more!”, that was the overwhelming response from Year 1 and Year 2 students of Irish at the University of Ulster following a recent trial of Clilstore. The units created for the purpose of this trial: http://alturl.com/w6bao & http://alturl.com/s5jjh were based on sample materials from the new Third Level Syllabus for Irish (see http://www.teagascnagaeilge.ie) which is based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

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It's good to see the Clilstore platform, being developed by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (Scotland's Gaelic College) and European partners through the TOOLS project, getting a good workout across the water with Irish Gaelic too. And it's interesting, if you follow the links, to listen "through the wall" to Irish speakers talking about some of the same issues about learning and use that affect Scottish Gaelic too here in the islands.