TeachingEnglish Newsletter 28 July 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 28 July 2010 Fitch O'Connell has now finished his time blogging on the site. Upcoming Guest Writers include Adrian Underhill and Jamie Keddie. In the meantime you can still see previous writers' articles on the site. 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. Premier Skills Enabling learners and teachers to communicate in two of the world's global languages - football and English. Welcome to the latest TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we'd like to start by saying thanks to Fitch O'Connell for his great work writing on the site over the last month. Meanwhile, we also have links to lots of practical activities to use in the classroom, whatever age or level you're teaching. Like a lot of teachers around the world, we're taking a break for the next couple of weeks, so our next newsletter will be along in the week beginning 9 August. If you're going on holiday too, have a good one! Best wishes, TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC    Conversation lesson plan - school A little imagination can provide plenty to talk about for a couple of hours. Even topic areas such as school itself can be a success, provided activities are well structured and each stage is varied, challenging, and well timed. Download this plan and worksheets and see for yourself. Read more Vocabulary activities On this page you will find a range of vocabulary activities sent in by contributors from around the world. There are over 20 of them for you to try out - and don't forget you can send in your contributions too!  Read more Group discussion skills Group discussions occur in many different formats - from the very informal to highly structured. In both cases, there are a number of specific skills that we can help our students develop to become better able to contribute effectively.  Read more Language learning games Although designed for the British Council's English language teaching assistants, this section of the site has lots of ideas for short, easy to organise games you can use in many teaching contexts. There are over 40 of them! Read more Teaching writing skills I am working as an English teacher for secondary students. I have found it difficult to teach them how to improve their writing skills. Should I concentrate more on teaching vocabulary and sentence structures first and then organising ideas? Please help me. Read more

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