TeachingEnglish Newsletter 05 February 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 05 February 2010 This month we are pleased to welcome a new Guest Writer to the TeachingEnglish site. For the whole of February you can follow Carol Read's blog. 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. We are delighted to welcome Carol Read to the site. Over the month of February you will be able to follow the discussions on Carol's blog as we launch a new series of story-telling materials for primary teachers. Also new this month is a Teaching Kids piece which looks at how your young learners can get their writing published on our sister site LearnEnglish Kids and a new pairwork activity 'what's in the fridge?' which can be used to practice countable and uncountable nouns. There's also an article about asking questions. This week's featured blog looks at the question: 'how can I be a native-like English speaker?' TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Guest Writer: Carol Read We are delighted to welcome Carol Read to the site in February. You will be able to follow the discussions on Carol's blog as we launch a new series of story-telling materials for primary teachers. Read more Publish writing on LearnEnglish Kids Young learners can now publish their writing on the New LearnEnglish Kids site. Learners send in their writing to LearnEnglish kids then each contribution is read by a moderator. The writing is then posted within 24 hours. Read more Pairwork: What's in the fridge? This is another simple pairwork activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in countable and uncountable nouns, in the question structure - How much ... is there? /How many ... are there? and the corresponding answers. The lesson is designed for adults but could also be used with older teenagers. Read more Asking questions Asking questions is a natural feature of communication, but also one of the most important tools which teachers have at their disposal. Questioning is crucial to the way teachers manage the class, engage students with content, encourage participation and increase understanding. Read more How can I be a native-like English speaker? I've been studying English for years but I still have my own accent.  I wanna reduce it so much that I am making an effort to learn phonemic symbols and paying close attention to the methods of learning. Read more

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