​learn something. However, she did not give up and at the end I was able to produce some words using the language. Therefore, from my point of view, trusting your students is crucial in a content-rich class. Moreover, this experience really opened my eyes, and made me see that you need to be very patient. After the lessons, I do think that using good content-rich materials can impact our student in a very positive way and therefore, I will try to use them with my future students.

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• What have I learnt with the project and how has it made me rethink/reshape my role as a language teacher?

 I have learnt that preparing a CLIL session is not easy, that you need to take into account a lot of aspects and also, that it requires time, patience and, of course, motivation. However, after implementing it, if you ‘put’ all the ingredients mentioned before and you see how everything works, it can be really satisfactory.

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• How have I participated in the course project?

 We have worked collaboratively, looking for the topic and sharing our ideas for the design of the materials. Although I don’t speak Italian, I also helped Fernando practicing the teaching performance. I listened to him as if I were a student, and told him what I did not understand or where to include more gestures to clarify ideas.​