E V O L V E S C H O O L: TeachingEnglish Newsletter 15 October 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter

15 October 2010

Adrian Underhill is still with us as Guest Writer and he's already started blogging on the topic of pronunciation. If you're not familiar with Adrian you can check out his biography 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 to this week's TeachingEnglish newsletter. We have two complete lesson plans for you to try in your classrooms; one on the theme of image consciousness and another on teenagers' ideas about freedom. There are two entries from our regular bloggers Fitch O'Connell and Georgina Hudson. Fitch has been blogging about his experience at Damascus university and Georgina has just published her final post on setting positive limits in the classroom.

We are very pleased that Adrian Underhill is still with us as Guest Writer and his first blog entry is now on the site. Why not have a look and leave him your comments?

Best wishes,

Duncan
TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

Image conscious

This lesson asks students to discuss ways of changing their image before reading an informative article about tattoos. They then design a new image for a client of their company and then for themselves before discussing at what age they should be allowed to take certain decisions. The themes are image-consciousness and personal choice.
Read more

Movies in the English classroom

Nowadays students need to be exposed to a wide variety of resources from audio to printed material. Although this output seems to fulfil their needs and prepare them for the outside world, teachers always keep searching for more motivating sources. So, introducing movies into our classroom is a challenge most language teachers must face.
Read more

Ideas and activities for: The chart as mental map and the physicality of pronunciation.

In my Cinderella article and in the comments that followed we have referred to these two ideas, so here are a few notes on what I mean by these terms, and some practical activities. Your comments welcome, as ever.
Read more

Damascus and the story tellers

Today I went along to Damascus University where the English language faculty were hosting the 10th TEFL Conference to a packed conference room. I found that I had been listed as the key note speaker, which is an honour which had given me a somewhat restless night.
Read more

Setting positive limits in the classroom 3

Have you ever felt upset because you couldn't say "no" to a student's request for help with their English outside the classroom? That's a very common scenario in adult, Business and ESP classes, so what should we do? You're fond of your students and you want to give them a hand with their abstracts and business correspondence. It's just that you've started to feel they take your help for granted.

Freedom and you

This lesson deals with the area of teenagers' personal freedom and the potential dangers and responsibilities involved. The lesson is divided into seven parts. The first two parts build up to a reading in part three. You can follow the reading up with any or all of the four final parts.
Read more