TeachingEnglish Newsletter 26 March 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 26 March 2010 The TeachingEnglish website regularly hosts guest teachers from around the world and from the beginning of April we will be pleased to welcome Dario Banegas who will be blogging on the site over the month. 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 TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we bring you the exciting opportunity to help one of your students win a trip to the UK as part of a new global competition. As part of a partnership between the Premier League and the British Council your students have the chance to win a trip to watch a Barclays Premier league game in the UK. Visit the Premier Skills website to find out more. Also this month we have information about the upcoming IATEFL conference in Harrogate which you will be able to follow live over the internet as part of the Harrogate Online project. As always there's also something for you to try in the classroom in the form of a lesson plan, an article for you to think about and the opportunity to voice your own opinion. Don't forget that you can also keep up with English teaching discussions on the TeachingEnglish Facebook page. TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC IATEFL Harrogate Online The 2010 Harrogate IATEFL Conference takes place between 7th to 11th April and online activity has already started. Visit the Harrogate Online website for news, moderated discussion forums and video sessions and interviews - join in and be part of the conference. We look forward to bringing you all the action as it happens form Harrogate! Read more Help your students win a trip to the UK Your students can win a trip to the UK to watch a Barclays Premier League game in a new global competition as part of the Premier Skills project, a partnership between the British Council and the Premier League. The Premier Connections Competition pages have a lesson plan and other resources to help teachers use the competition as a classroom project. Closing date: May 10. Read More Counselling learners There are various ways of measuring learners' progress. Whichever method you choose, you should take time out to counsel your learners. Counselling involves talking through their strengths and weaknesses. It is an interactive process in which they are able to say how they feel about their learning, the course, and their teacher. Read More  How green are you? This lesson looks at ways the learners can take to reduce their impact on climate change. Learners will carry out two surveys and summarise their findings as a report. It gives students the chance to interview others to complete a survey and summarise findings in a report and develop questionnaires on current behaviour using present perfect forms. Read More Lesson suggestionsplease I am giving one-on-one private English conversation lessons to two teenagers (separately) and I'm not sure what to do. They are elementary students and can express themselves but their pronunciation and vocabulary are not very good, although I can understand what they are trying to say.  Should I be correcting this? Read more

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