TeachingEnglish Newsletter 16 September 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 16 September 2010 Fitch O'Connell will be blogging from the Hay Festival, Segovia next week, from 23-26 September. Follow his blog on TeachingEnglish. Check out our Guest Writer back catalogue here. 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. This week on TeachingEnglish we have a selection of activities for you to try including a new activity from our OPENCities series, a new article on lexis and news of an exciting new poetry competition. There is also a new revised addition to our BritLit kits: Whose face do you see? This week's reader contribution comes from regular blogger Georgina Hudson who is starting a series of blogs looking at the importance of setting positive limits in the classroom. Best wishes, Duncan TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC    Revising lexis: quality or quantity? Sometime in the middle of the last century, Benjamin Whorf, famous for his contention that language shapes thought, made a controversial statement about the Eskimo language having seven words for snow. Frequently quoted or, rather misquoted overtime, Whorf's number of snow words was inflated to nine, twenty, fifty, and even one hundred. Read more Poetry competition Children aged between 7-11 years old who live outside the United Kingdom and who are learning English as a second or foreign language will be able to enter the international category of the competition. Judging for the competition will be chaired by British poet Roger McGough. Read more Choose a city In this speaking activity students think about and discuss a city they would like to live in for a year. The activity is based on themes from the British Council OPENCities project www.opencities.eu To find out more you can sign up for the OPENCities newsletter Read more Whose face do you see? There are two voices in this story, set around a coma patient's bed in a hospital. One is perplexed and the other is full of concern. More counterpoint than dialogue, the two voices gradually find resolution and a meeting place. The resource kit made around Melvin Burgess's story has been revised in 2010. Read more Setting positive limits in the classroom This is the first in a series of three blogs I'm planning to write about setting positive limits in the classroom. How many times have you found yourself in a situation where you didn't have the courage to say "no" to the students that you love? What do you do when you're really keen on your students but the situation urges you to set clear limits? Read more

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