British Council TeachingEnglish 6 July 2011

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TeachingEnglish Newsletter 6 July 2011 Guest Writers like Tessa Woodward have been a regular feature of TeachingEnglish since 2008. Watch out for a new series starting later in 2011, where guests will be writing on the site and giving workshops. 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.  Welcome to the latest newsletter!  This week we continue with the storytelling theme, with a new activity and article from David Heathfield. There's also an activity to use with a YouTube film involving a technique you can use again and again. Finally there's a reminder of areas of the site that might be useful for teachers on summer schools, and for those interested in doing some reading around different aspects of English language teaching. Best wishes, Rob Teaching English Team | British Council | BBC The shortest tale This is the latest activity from David Heathfield on using stories in the classroom, and is a quick way of teaching a tale and boosting students' confidence in themselves as storytellers.   Read more   Vision off - YouTube technique This YouTube activity, based on a short film from YouTube, really gets your students thinking creatively. It can be used to review present simple tenses, vocabulary for sounds, language of deduction and making comparisons.   Read more   Teaching the tale: language and memory A feature that is common both to language teaching and to traditional folk and fairy tales is the repetition of phrases or 'language chunks'. In his latest article for us, storyteller David Heathfield explains how you can exploit this. Read more Downloadable books You can download a range of publications from TeachingEnglish for free, including the 'Milestones' series of classic ELT texts. Issues covered include teacher development, literature in language teaching, and global English. Read more Essential UK Are you teaching summer school at the moment? If yes, then you might find the Essential UK series of activities on the Language Assistant site useful. The materials are based on contemporary UK and have a teen-focus. Read more

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