TeachingEnglish Newsletter 24 May 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 24 May 2010 Our Guest Teacher Rania Jabr has been adding comments to her blog this week. Let her know what you think by adding your own ideas.  Read more Facebook Keep up to date with the latest updates on TeachingEnglish via our Facebook page.  LearnEnglish Kids Children can develop their English skills with topic-based games, songs, stories. LearnEnglish 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 are very pleased to announce the opening of a new section on the TeachingEnglish site: Train. The new section contains an exciting range of free teacher training materials including videos and online courses on a range of topics.   Also this month we have a new activity that looks at using Glogster to create interactive online posters and a new Britlit story with accompanying activities. There's a new blog posting from Dario Banegas that provides a topic-based lesson for school students and finally some ideas about using PowerPoint to teach vocabulary items.   Best wishes, TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC    Teacher training materials on TeachingEnglish Train is a new area on TeachingEnglish, and the place to go if you are looking for teacher training materials. For teachers, there are videos and self-access online courses on topics such as teaching grammar, using learning technologies and understanding learner styles. You'll also find information about face-to-face training courses the British Council runs. Read more Using Glogster for creating interactive online posters You can create attractive and colourful Glogster posters with your students on many different occasions: for celebrating festivals, for illustrating project work or for presenting a topic. Read More Carapace A young Sri Lankan woman needs some advice. Her mother wants her to marry a rich man that she has never met, but what does her boyfriend think? Romesh Gunesekera's gentle story explores the dilemma with the voice of the young woman as the narrator and leaves the reader suspended at the end. This resource kit was substantially revised in 2010.   Read More  Dario Banegas - A simple topic-based lesson for secondary school students By now you have probably realised that I'm much in favour of integrating language and content making use of the several options we can find along the CLIL-CBI continuum. This time, I'll be sharing with you a very simple topic-based lesson which, surprisingly, my 16-year old students enjoyed. Read More PowerPoint-less?! During the current school year I was blessed with an interactive whiteboard. So, I've tried to make the most of it by presenting the new vocabulary items with power point files. In fact, it is something like flashcards, but more interactive and interesting for the learners, the teenage ones, in particular. Read more

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