British Council TeachingEnglish 08 June 2011

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TeachingEnglish Newsletter 8 June 2011 Guest Writers have been a regular feature of TeachingEnglish since 2008, and have included Carol Read, Dave Willis, Scott Thornbury and Barry Tomalin, among others. You will find their blogs on these pages, covering a wide range of subjects. Read more English Language Assistants Find regular advice and classroom support for English language assistants. LearnEnglish Kids Children can develop their English skills with topic-based games, songs, stories. LearnEnglish Central 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.  Hello again! This week we have news of an exciting new tool on the TeachingEnglish site that will enable creative teachers out there to create your own flashcards. You will need to log on to use this feature but it will allow you to add images, text and phonemic script. There's also a new article from author David Heathfield on using storytelling to celebrate diversity as well as a storytelling activity that will work well with both children and adults. If you haven't visited the training courses section on the TeachingEnglish site for a while you may have forgotten about a range of teacher training workshops that are available for you to download: some are complete and others are samples but they are all free for registered users. Best wishes Duncan Teaching English Team | British Council | BBC Flashcard maker Make your own flashcards! You can add images, text and phonemic script. You need to be logged in with your username to use this feature. There are also packs of downloadable flashcards for different topics on LearnEnglish kids. Read more   Storytelling to celebrate cultural diversity Many of us work with groups of students from more than one cultural background while others teach largely monocultural groups of students. In both cases, there is opportunity to celebrate diversity through the telling of traditional tales, whatever the age group and profile of our students. Read more Ask and imagine the story Memorise this story as well as you can: Long, long ago in a village in China there lived a fool called Li. One day Li won 300 yuan in the gambling house. He was very happy so he went to find a place to store the money. He found a great place - the ground! He buried the money in the ground but he was afraid that someone would steal his money. Read more Downloadable workshops A combination of complete workshops to download, and sample materials from British Council courses - all free to registered users of TeachingEnglish. Read more Three strategies while listening for specific information Listening for specific information is a common type of listening especially in testing listening contexts and students need to be prepared for it. The strategy needed for listening of this type is very much unique from other forms of listening. Read more Useful resources for "How to give oral presentations" Here are some resources I've found helpful for teaching EFL students how to give good presentations - focussing on structure and language etc. Maybe you'll find them helpful too! Read more

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