TeachingEnglish Newsletter 05 March 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 05 March 2010 We would like to thank Carol Read for her contributions to the site during the month of February. Carol is part of our Guest Writers series which has included a number of well known ELT authors. 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's edition has a variety of new materials for you to try, articles for you to think about and discussions for you to get involved in. We have a new activity and worksheet from British Council Paris which can be used with the storybook 'Is it because?'. There's a new game  that you can download and use with young learners as either a warmer or a filler. Finally this week we have two questions for you to vote on and discuss: 'How can we make a boring lesson interesting?' and 'Do native speakers make the best teachers?'. Have your say on the TeachingEnglish site now. TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC The Very Busy Spider This is a series of activities and related worksheets for you to download and use with the storybook Is it because? It forms part of the Promoting diversity through children's literature series, produced by the British Council Teaching Centre in Paris. Read more Lucky number 6 This is a quick, simple game that reviews question forms and can be used as a warmer or a filler at the end of the lesson with all students aged 7 - 11. To try it you will need a dice and the cut up letters from our worksheet. Read More How to Present Vocabulary in a Language Classroom in a Communicative Way A lot has been said so far, concerning the teaching of vocabulary in the context of a language classroom. The aim of this article is to point out some theoretical aspects related to vocabulary teaching that might be of a great help to language teachers. However, I will not limit my contribution to purely theoretical claims as these would be of no benefit to practitioners or others involved in the teaching process. Read More How to make a boring session interesting? Hello everyone. I'm a teacher here like everyone else. I have seen that sometimes the lesson which appears very interesting to us when we read it, becomes boring when we try teaching it in the class..sometimes the students simply have a big question mark on their face... does anyone else face this problem? Please suggest a remedy for this, anyone? Read More Do native speakers make the best teachers? This week we would like to hear your views on quite a controversial topic: native speaker teachers. Are native speaker teachers automatically the best teachers of a language? Just because you speak a language naturally, does that mean you can teach it? Or does the process of learning a language to a high level of fluency make non-native speaker teachers far better equipped to teach that language? Read more

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