TeachingEnglish Newsletter 19 February 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 19 February 2010 Carol Read is our current Guest Writer and this month she is discussing the importance of storytelling with young learners. Let her know your thoughts. 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. Carol Read is still with us as Guest Writer and this week she wants to know what books you like using best when teaching young learners. Visit her blog to let her know what books you enjoy and how you use them. This week we have a new guide which looks at ways of creating and updating websites to support the work of language teachers, an article which looks at the slightly neglected subject of 'homework' and a new speaking activity. You can also let us know whether and how often you use reading stories in the classroom in our new poll. TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC The SAEL Guide New demands have transformed the way languages are taught across the European Union. It is set against this backdrop of profound change that the SAEL project came into being. This guide, one of the final outcomes of the project, contains practical suggestions for creating and updating websites designed to support the work of language teachers Read more Homework Homework seems to be an accepted part of teachers' and students' routines, but there is little mention of it in ELT literature. The role of homework is hardly mentioned in the majority of general ELT texts or training courses, suggesting that there is little question as to its value even if the resulting workload is time-consuming. Read More Shopping at the minimarket This speaking activity reviews uncountable and countable nouns (food), some/any and prices and is suitable for pre-intermediate 9 -11 year olds. Students draw their own shop and contents and write lists of things they want to buy. The teacher elicits a dialogue and then students mingle to go shopping at the shops to try to buy everything on their list. Read More What are your favourite story books? My very first experience of blogging came a few months ago when ELT trainer and author, Lindsay Clandfield, invited me to do a 'guest spot' on teaching young learners on his blog 'Six things - A miscellany of English language'. Lindsay's blog is a varied collection of interesting, surprising and often amusing things about teaching and learning. The only proviso is that every posting comes in a list of six. Read More Do you use storytelling in your YL classroom? As our Guest writer Carol Read is blogging about the use of storytelling with young learners, we thought we'd take the chance to find out how often you use storytelling in your classes. Read more

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