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| Welcome to another TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week's edition is the usual mix of things for you to try in the classroom and reader contributions. If you celebrate Halloween there's a complete lesson plan for you to try with your class and there's also an activity you can try that looks at helping learners with comparative forms.
If you would like to help one of our readers you can do so by leaving your ideas on the techniques you use to teach spoken English. Adrian Underhill is still working with us as Guest Writer and if you are not familiar with him you can get to know more about him in a video interview. Adrian will finish at the end of October so if you want him to answer any of your questions get posting now. Once Adrian finishes we will be very pleased to welcome Jamie Keddie as Guest Writer.
Best wishes, Duncan TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC   |
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 | | Adrian Underhill - interview |
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 | I was interviewed about the British Council about my career, opinions on ELT in general, and specifically about pronunciation. You can find the pronunciation discussion from 18 minutes onwards.
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 | Happy Halloween from the team at LearnEnglish Kids! There are lots of activities for Halloween on our site and you will find most of the content on our sister site LearnEnglish Kids. On this page you will find information about new content as well as tips and ideas for using and extending the activities in the classroom.
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| | Comparative plips and plops |
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| I like to use this activity to promote the use of the comparative form. It is a fun guessing game that encourages creativity. To prepare think of examples for the demonstration, and print/copy the student worksheets.
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| One of the main dilemmas for teachers giving conversation groups is error correction. It's always tricky to know when and if to correct students and how to go about it. The danger of over-correcting is that students will lose motivation and you may even destroy the flow of the class or the activity by butting in and correcting every single mistake. The other extreme is to let the conversation flow and not to correct any mistakes.
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| Recently, many studies on the acquisition of second/foriegn language vocabulary state that foreign language learners prove to have different degrees of knowledge of second language lexicon. These differences affect their lexical competence which constitutes a central part of the communicative competence. Psycholinguists and applied linguists emphasized the role of L2 vocabulary in every stage of language learning and teaching.
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