TeachingEnglish Newsletter 8 January 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 8 January 2010 Nigussie Negash has now finished his work as Guest Teacher on TeachingEnglish but you can still follow his final posts on the site. 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 first TeachingEnglish newsletter of 2010. This month we offer our thanks to our Guest Writer Alan Maley, and our Guest Teacher Nigussie Negash who have now finished their excellent work on the site. Upcoming activity on the site will include a special month for teachers of young learners. We'll have more information about that next week.   This week we have our usual mix of teaching tips, activities and opportunities to voice your own ideas. You can find our latest video tip on classroom management, a new activity to try in class with your pre-intermediate students and the chance to take part in our latest poll: should the mother tongue be used in the classroom? TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Classroom management This is the latest in our new series of video tips. What do you think is important in classroom management? Watch the video of our six tips then if you have more tips to share, leave them below. Read more Storylines This is a speaking and listening communication activity which is aimed at pre-intermediate students and above. It was developed to help students practise narrative tenses and structures. The duration of the activity depends on the size of the class, but will take at least twenty minutes for an average size class.  Read more Using news articles Topical news stories are a great source of teaching material. This article presents different ways to exploit news reports in the classroom and focuses on raising the level of involvement and participation that the students have in the lesson. Read more Modeling in teaching speaking and writing skills Catch up with our Guest Teacher's final post where Nigussie asks whether our instruction should be process or product based. I think in emphasizing the process only we could 'throw the baby out with the bath water'; both the product and the process are necessary. Read more Use of the mother tongue Take part in our latest poll. This month we want to know whether using the mother tongue in the classroom should be avoided at all costs or whether you think it can be a useful aid in the teaching of English. Read more

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