E V O L V E S C H O O L: TeachingEnglish Newsletter 24 March 2011

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TeachingEnglish Newsletter

24 March 2011

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Welcome to this week's TeachingEnglish newsletter!

This week we have news of the re-birth of 'In English' magazine which is now available in a digital form. Although intended for Portuguese speaking countries it should be of interest to all teachers of English and is easily available as an e-zine.

Also this week we have news of a new video in our teaching tips section, looking at mobile learning and the latest video from the British Council Seminars series. You can find all of the seminar videos here.

We are also looking for some feedback from you about how we can improve the TeachingEnglish Facebook page. Let us know what you'd like to see there by completing our questionnaire.

Best wishes,

Duncan
TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

Mobile learning

What is mobile learning, or m-learning? Watch the latest in our series of video teaching tips where Chris talks about how he uses mobile devices in class, then leave a comment below if you have similar ideas.

In English Digital

'In English Digital' is the phoenix rising from the ashes of the print form magazine 'In English', which was last printed by British Council Portugal in 2008. 'In English Digital' is an e-zine for teachers of English and, while written by teachers and other ELT professionals from the Lusophone world of Portuguese speaking countries, will be of interest to all teachers of English as a foreign language.
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Café Culture in ELT: The importance of reading for pleasure

This is the latest in the series of videos of seminars arranged by the British Council and brought to you on TeachingEnglish. This seminar is presented by Jez Uden and is about the importance of reading for pleasure among English language learners.
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Pen-friends from India

Thanks to a year in the UK, I became in contact with a teacher from Kolkata in India. We thought that we could start a small-scale project through which our students could exchange letters. With very little funding, both of us asked our own students whether they would like to have a pen-friend from another country.

Using poetry

The reasons for using poetry are similar to those for using songs and many activities that you do with songs can be adapted to poetry. Any authentic material exposes students to some 'real English' and can be very motivating for your students, provided they are supported throughout the task. The other great thing about poems is for students to have the opportunity to see the language work creatively and freely.
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Teaching English Facebook page

We'd like to make the TeachingEnglish Facebook page your daily digest for all that's happening in the world of English Language Teaching. To make that a reality we would be very grateful if you could help us by answering the following questions.
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