TeachingEnglish Newsletter 1 April 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 1 April 2010 The TeachingEnglish website regularly hosts guest teachers from around the world and starting this month, Dario Banegas will be blogging on the site. 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 the latest TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we bring you the usual mix of lesson ideas and discussion, including the latest lesson plan in our series on climate change, and a new BritLit multimedia kit. Next week we will be in Harrogate for the IATEFL conference, so the next newsletter will be on 16 April. Don't forget to follow the conference online! Meanwhile we will soon be offering even more free materials to users who register on TeachingEnglish, so if you haven't done so already why not do so - it's quick and easy! Best wishes TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC  Coming Home This BritLit kit for older students is the first of an experimental kind in which video, audio and text are all used to create the full narrative; in fact, all three media need to be used for the story to be told. Read More Music for visualisation Music can be used in so many different ways in language teaching. This article includes ideas for activities that can be adapted easily to different levels and types of courses and are even suited to those students who have a less developed musical intelligence. Read More  Environmental problems This lesson plan introduces learners to some of the main issues related to climate change. Learners focus on dictionary skills and the pronunciation of strong and weak syllables in long words. Read More Teaching the English alphabet Read this blog entry, all about the 'traditional practice of learning by writing on the sand, and also learning by touching and feeling the letters inscribed on the palm leaves... Teachers used to hold the fingers of the children, and teach them to write the alphabets on sand.' How do you teach the alphabet? Read more IATEFL Harrogate Online Don't forget the 2010 Harrogate IATEFL Conference starts next week! 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

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