TeachingEnglish Newsletter 15 January 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 22 January 2010 Guest Writers have been a regular feature of the new TeachingEnglish site. You can find articles by Gavin Dudeney, 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 another edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we have 6 new activities which are part of our OPENCities project. Also on the site is a new mingle activity that can be used with children or adults and two interesting blog postings about setting goals for students and the use of literature in the classroom. As ever, feel free to contribute your own ideas. TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC OPENCities As part of our OPENCities project you can find 6 brand new listening and speaking activities, including digital audio recordings. These are in addition to the 4 comprehensive thematic lesson plans and accompanying worksheets which are available for download. Read more Mingling: Terry's trip This is a simple mingling activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in the past simple, particularly the question form. The lesson is designed for adults but could also be used with teenagers. Read more Developing writing skills: A news report This lesson takes a process approach to developing writing skills. It is staged so that students are guided through the processes of collecting information and deciding how they will structure it within the text before they begin to write. They are then guided through the process of drafting, editing and redrafting the text to produce a final copy. Read more Setting Short-term Goals I've recently become a bit more interested in 'goal-setting' for learners.  Research seems to indicate a correlation between successful language learning and working with short-term goals, but I rarely see any ideas regarding the types of goals that learners should set. Read more Literature in Content-Based Instruction Even though CBI has prompted several stances and proposals, it is best comprehended if we illustrate it with one example from a particular context. Therefore, I will turn to explore how Literature can facilitate the integration of language and content (August, 2004) in the light of sociocultural theory, SCT. Read more

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