E V O L V E S C H O O L: TeachingEnglish Newsletter 03 November 2010

TeachingEnglish Newsletter

03 November 2010

This month we are very pleased to welcome Jamie Keddie as our Guest Teacher. You can find out more about Jamie by checking out his biography here.

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Welcome to this week's TeachingEnglish newsletter. In this issue we are sad to say goodbye to Adrian Underhill as our Guest Teacher but are very pleased to welcome Jamie Keddie who will be taking over. Jamie has already written his first article for the TeachingEnglish site looking at the use of Youtube in the English language classroom.

Also this week we have a lesson plan looking at the use of Facebook and social networking and an activity which looks at the use of doodles for psychoanalysis. As always there's some content from our readers in the form of Penny Trigg's 'Back into teaching' blog. There's also a farewell and 'thank you' from Adrian Underhill.

Best wishes,

Duncan
TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

Video for the English classroom

Exactly five years ago this month, the video-sharing site YouTube was officially launched to the public. Since then, the site and others like it have been affecting the world in diverse and unpredictable ways. For the language teacher, YouTube may be nothing less than one of the best sources of material the classroom has ever seen.
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Facebook and social networking

How many friends have you got on Facebook? What's the friend limit on Facebook? This lesson takes a look at trends in online social networking. It gives students chance to create an imaginary online 'wall' where they can interact with each other.
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Doodles: Psychoanalysis

This is a simple speaking activity that can provide practice for describing personalities. The lesson is designed for adults but could also be used with older teenagers.
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Jamie Keddie - biography

I am originally from the East Coast of Scotland, a beautiful part of the world where it doesn't rain as much as people think. I completed a science degree at Aberdeen University and then decided that I wanted to be a musician. After four long indulgent years, which were spent studying music at Leeds, I started working on a ship.
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Thanks and goodbye

I'd like to thank all you readers and visitors and respondents to the various pron articles and blogs over the last month here on Teaching English. Thank you for taking part and for pushing the conversations along and for some really interesting questions. I appreciate especially the different perspectives you have brought, and this has made it a rich month of learning for me.

Back into teaching

Years ago, I did the old RSA Certificate, and I did some TEFL for a while before getting side-tracked with other things. Now I'm half-way through the CELTA, in a big effort to up-date myself and to try teaching again. Of course, the CELTA is a very different experience from the RSA Certificate - for all sorts of reasons.
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