1+CLIL,+LAIKA+AND+THE+GOLDEN+GAME

CLIL Eastwood was in a bad mood when he got home. ‘How did your day go, darling?’ his mother asked. ‘I don’t want to talk about it, mom’. Without saying anything else, CLIL climbed the stairs and locked himself in his room. He lay down on his bed looking at his open ceiling full of stars and galaxies. ‘I wonder if there is anything out there’. CLIL wondered why he didn’t have any friends at school and why teachers were so mad at him all the time. School was so boring! Nothing exciting ever happened! As he started to drift off to sleep, CLIL started dreaming of a more exciting life.

A tap on the window woke him up. Still sleepy,he walked over to the window and found a strange creature. He opened the window and the strange creature licked him. That was disgusting! And she did it again! She also wagged her tail. CLIL switched his remote buttons to tune in to this new creature’s language.

‘Hi, my name is Laika. I come from planet Earth. Do you have a bone? I’m hungry.’ ‘Oh, hi. My name is CLIL Eastwood. You are from where?’ ‘Planet Earth. Do you have a bone?’ ‘A bone? I don’t think so. Tell me about Planet Earth. Can I make friends in Planet Earth? Do you play games in Planet Earth?’ ‘Sure we do! Do you want to play one?’ ‘What’s the game?’ ‘Well…it’s called The Golden Game and it involves travelling in time on Planet Earth.’ ‘All you have to do is wear this magical solar cloak and you'll be transported to Planet Earth! Are you READY?' 'Yeepy Yuppy!'

Laika handed him the magical cloak. CLIL put it on and disappeared. He was transported to Earth.