Integrated Teaching of Science and English Language at Primary Level

Abstract

The paper presents techniques for planning, implementing and evaluating school curriculum at the primary level of education to support the content integration of science and English. In particular, according to the standard of natural science, in the 4th grade, the topic - water as an environment is developed. It is important to teach based on inquiry and to let students make discoveries to describe and explain this or that event/process. The main goal of the national curriculum at the primary level is to make students interested in and share the basics of natural science, to develop research skills that will allow them to know and understand the world, to feel responsible for themselves, society and the environment (NC, 2018-2024). Depending on the educational goals, the curriculum provides for solving specific tasks. One of these tasks is the formation of communication skills, for which it is important to use verbal tools - words, their combinations and sentences. Such an approach leads to the formation of deep, functional knowledge in students and the transformation of a foreign event/process into a familiar context. And in the English lessons, work is done on vocabulary items related to the topic discussed in the natural science lessons. In the paper, together with natural science tasks, English language tasks are presented, which allow students to use the content introduced in natural science lessons. The tasks are aimed at the development of students' oral speech and learning skills, which corresponds to the results of the first foreign language and natural science standard of the primary level (I-IV) (NC, 2018-2024).