TeachingEnglish Newsletter 15 January 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 15 January 2010 Guest Writers have been a regular feature of the new TeachingEnglish site. You can find articles by Rod Bolitho, Jane Willis, Alan Maley and many more. Read more Language Assistants Find regular advice and classroom support for English language assistants. LearnEnglish Kids Children can develop their English skills with topic-based games, songs, stories. LearnEnglish Central Develop your English, with language games, downloads, stories and articles. BritLit The aim of BritLit is to help teachers from around the world to exploit English literature in the ELT classroom. Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we have two new activities for you to try including an activity to practice narrative tenses with pre-intermediate students and some activities based around using videos from our excellent sister site LearnEnglishKids. Also on the site is a new blog about using controversial topics in class and you might be able to take the opportunity to help answer a question from a fellow teacher. TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC To Catch A Thief: Past simple and past continuous practice. This activity can be used as practice for using narrative tenses, particularly past simple and progressive/continuous with pre-intermediate students. It is a very structured activity in which students write a short newspaper article about a robbery. Read more Throwing them in at 'the deep end' Syllabus writers - and teachers in general - commonly assume a 'scaffolding approach' to course design. Put simply, this means that more challenging material follows on from slightly less challenging material. Elementary learners learn Elementary language items and Advanced learners learn Advanced language items, and we don't teach Advanced language items to beginners. Read more Using videos You can watch videos and listen to children talk about their lives on the British Council's NEW LearnEnglish Kids site for young learners. The short topic-based videos are all found in one section called Kids Talk. Read more Teaching English through controversial topics Either for ethical, cultural or economic related issues, EFL coursebooks addressed to teenagers do not usually include topics which may be sensitive. On the contrary, there is a widespread tendency for material writers to design course units around themes such as food, family, the weather, sports, and so on.. Read more Simulation method Dear colleagues, Can anyone can describe what the real difference is between simulation and role-play? Which is better for language teaching? Yours, sincerely,  Jolita Lepsiene. Read more

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