TeachingEnglish Newsletter 26 February 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 26 February 2010 Our current Guest Writer Carol Read is making her final blog posts this week so why not take this last opportunity to 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. As we come to the end of February Carol Read is ending her time as our Guest Writer. Her final blog post is about 'the future of story telling'. Why not take this last opportunity to engage Carol with your ideas? Also this week we have an article on using settlers and stirrers in the primary classroom and a new activity that can be used with low level groups of learners. There's a new article on Teaching Kids which looks at ways our sister site LearnEnglish Kids can be used with young learner classes. TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Stirrers and settlers for the primary classroom Teaching in the primary classroom is very different from teaching teens or adults because of the amount of energy children have! Knowing how to channel this energy, or when to 'stir' and when to 'settle' children will help you achieve balanced lessons without children becoming over-excited on the one hand or bored on the other. Read more Pairwork: tai chi classes This is a simple pairwork activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in the present simple question form - What does he/she do on...?, days of the week, times and leisure activities. The lesson is designed for adults but could also be used with older teenagers. Read More Using LearnEnglish Kids for whole class, group or individual work In this article you will find tips and ideas for using LearnEnglish Kids with the whole class, with smaller groups and with pairs or individuals. It includes ideas for whole class activities, small groups and also ideas for individual and pairwork activities. Read More The future of story telling As I write this final posting in our discussion on storytelling, I'm getting very excited at the prospect of setting off to Hildesheim in Germany this weekend to attend and give a workshop at the international conference on Children's Literature in Language Education - from Picture Books to Young Adult Fiction, jointly organised by the University of Hildesheim and the IATEFL Young learners and Teenagers Special Interest Group. Read More Sleep learning: learn a language a week - you must be dreaming! Suppose it were possible to learn a newlanguage by sleeping on it? Literally. The theory of sleep learning or "hypnopaedia" was kick-started by novels like Brave New World. Here, having been played a George Bernard Shaw broadcast while asleep, a Polish-speaking boy is able to repeat it verbatim the following morning. Read more

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