TeachingEnglish Newsletter 5 July 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 05 July 2010 Fitch O'Connell is still with us as Guest Writer and this week you can catch up with his blog on the topic of 'festivals'. 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. Premier Skills Enabling learners and teachers to communicate in two of the world's global languages - football and English. Welcome to another TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we have information about a collaboration between the British Council and EAQUALS to create a core curriculum for the English language. You can now download a leaflet giving an example of the work completed so far. As always there's something for you to try in the classroom with a whole new lesson plan 'Litter poem' that looks at developing students' abilities to understand and respond to poetry. There's also a new article by our Guest Writer Fitch O'Connell called 'Spice Island', a teaching tip on the subject of monitoring and a new poll asking whether you think we should discuss politics in the classroom.   Best wishes, TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC    Litter poem This lesson introduces learners to some of the main issues related to litter, through poetry, and raises awareness of what can be done to reduce it. By the end of the lesson learners will be able to consolidate and extend their understanding of vocabulary associated with litter pollution and will have developed an ability to understand and respond to poetry. Read more A Spice Island Our guest walked down the aircraft steps onto the tarmac and was greeted by a small band and a few dancers dressed in traditional costume. I wondered if I should tell him that we hadn't arranged the reception and that it wasn't for him. I mumbled an explanation, but I don't think I was heard. Read more British Council EAQUALS curriculum This project may be of interest to anyone involved in curriculum development. The downloadable leaflet gives a sample of the work completed thus far on a British Council project to create a core curriculum based, in part, on the CEFR.    Read More  Festival power I was reminded this morning that this week sees the closing date for entries for the Bridport prize - a prize for new writers which is, as it says on the tin, 'at the heart of the Bridport Festival' (29 Oct - 7 Nov).  Now it may well be that you haven't heard of the Bridport Festival, just as you might not be aware of many of the other important literary festival that go on in the UK every year. Read More Monitoring When your students are on-task and engaged in a speaking activity where are you and what are you doing? This may sound like an odd question as you could be doing a million different things. You may be thinking about what to do next, you may be cleaning the board and tidying up your desk, you may be looking out of the window counting the minutes until the end of the class.... or you may be monitoring your students. Read more Should we discuss political issues in the classroom? Politics is part of our everyday lives. Discussion of political issues can lead to a greater understanding of our world, but can also lead to disagreement. Do you think it is something we can use in the classroom or is it something that can be too divisive? Read More

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