CLIL Student Worksheet
CLIL Student Worksheet
Predict what you will hear in the text about Vancouver, using the different categories to make
notes.
Now read the text and make a note of any vocabulary in the correct categories
Task 3: Gap-fill
Students complete gap-fill to consolidate new vocabulary items. The gap-fill exercise may be
given with or without the items in the box:
As the main western terminus of Canada's transcontinental highway and rail __________,
Vancouver is the __________ city of western Canada, as well as one of the nation's largest
industrial centres. The Port of Vancouver is Canada's largest and most __________ port, trading
more than $43 billion in goods with more than 90 trading __________ annually. Port activities
_________ 69,200 jobs in total with $4 billion in gross _________ product and $8.9 billion in
economic __________.
Vancouver's central area has 60% of the region's office space and is home to headquarters of
forest products and mining companies as well as branches of national and international banks,
accounting and law firms. In recent years, Vancouver has __________ as a centre for software
development, biotechnology and the film industry. Two of the Port of Vancouver's container docks
are
__________ in the city. The Fraser River has barge and log traffic serving forestry and other water
related industries. Around 1,800 acres of industrial land provide an important __________ of
support services, manufacturing and wholesale premises for businesses throughout the city and
region.
Task 4 Map completion