📚 CLIL Resource Types Explained
A guide for teachers using BilingualTreasury.com
At Bilingual Treasury, we believe that bilingual (CLIL) teaching is about more than translating lessons — it’s about making content understandable and engaging, while developing academic language skills.
To help you browse and upload materials effectively, we use a set of ten resource types. Below you’ll find a short explanation of each, along with some examples. Some resources will fit the description of more than one type. Feel free to select multiple options whilst uploading your work.
| 📄 Worksheet A classic go-to! Worksheets are printable or digital activity sheets designed for practice, consolidation, or scaffolding. They may include calculations, sentence completions, matching, short answers, or diagrams to label. | 🧠 Project / Task Extended assignments where students explore a topic in depth—often involving real-world problems, group work, or creative presentations. A CLIL project might be a statistics report, a geometry investigation, or a biology survey written in English. |
| 🖼️ Visual / Diagram Tools that help explain subject matter. This includes posters, mind maps, charts, models, or graphic organizers that help students visually understand complex content. | 🧾 Lesson Plan A teacher-facing resource that outlines lesson objectives, activities, timing, materials, and language focus. 💡 Tip: Make sure you upload or link any related materials. |
| 💬 Language Activties Activies that focus on students delivering language output. This can be in both spoken or written language. | 🧩 Vocabulary Includes word banks, glossaries, terminology cards, and vocabulary games. These help students build subject-specific language knowledge and fluency. |
| ✅ Assessment Tool Includes rubrics, checklists, quizzes, tests and peer/self-assessments. Designed to assess both content understanding and language use. | 🖥️ Presentation / Slide Deck Slide decks created by teachers or students to explain content, guide lessons, or present findings. 💡 Tip: Add speaker notes or usage suggestions to increase clarity. |
| 🎧 Video / Audio Resource Clips that either explain, demonstrate and introduce content or practice listening proficiency. These may be created by teachers or curated from external sources. 💡 Tip: Make sure you upload or link any related materials. | 🕹️ Interactive Activity Games, simulations, escape rooms, card sorts, and other tools that require students to actively engage with both content and language. These can be both analog or digital. |
| 🧪Experiments Activities that let students observe, measure and draw conclusions about the subject matter, often used in the Sciences. |
Why These Categories Matter
These ten resource types help you:
- Upload your materials under a clear and consistent structure
- Help others understand how to use your resource effectively
- Inspire other teachers to try out new kinds of materials in their CLIL classrooms
Ready to contribute?
When uploading to bilingualtreasury.com, simply choose the (multiple) resource types that best fits your material. Add a short description to explain how it can be used. Together, we’re building a growing library of practical, high-quality CLIL resources — created by teachers, for teachers.
