British Council TeachingEnglish 4 August 2011

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 10 August 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.  Hello again! This week we have another video in our seminars series, this one features Luke Meddings talking about teaching unplugged. If you haven't been following our seminars series you can find them here.   If you want to try something creative in class why not have a look at our activity about performing a class play based on the Shakespeare classic Romeo and Juliet. Alternatively with younger learners you could try a lesson plan on the subject of clothes that looks at helping students learn the present continuous and revise colours.    Also this week there a chance to chip in your ideas on the age-old question of whether native or non-native speakers are better language teachers. I'm not sure about the answer to this one but I'd really like to hear your opinions, why not visit the site and let us know.   Best wishes Duncan Teaching English Team | British Council | BBC 20 steps to teaching unplugged   Luke Meddings builds a picture of teaching unplugged in this seminar, filmed at the British Council in London earlier in 2011. If you aren't aware of how to 'teach unplugged' you may find it useful. Watch   Romeo and Juliet - a class play This simple activity gives higher-level students the chance to write and act in their own version of Romeo and Juliet. Divide students into groups of about three. It is not necessary to have all male or all female groups but you could consider it. Give half the class Card 1 and the other half the class Card 2. Read more Activities that encourage good classroom behaviour   Keeping your learners motivated will lessen most classroom management issues. So let's share ideas about how to motivate learners. One tip I have is that you make sure that you give praise to all the learners when they do something well and particularly when they behave well.   Read more   Tattoos   Tattooing is by no means a new trend as it has been around for more than 5,000 years. However, tattoos are now seen as the ultimate fashion statement amongst many in the UK, amongst the general public as well as celebrities. This lesson looks at the popularity of tattoos.   Read more   Clothes    This lesson looks at ways to develop students 'clothes vocabulary'. It could be spread over two lessons as the posters in Stage 5 could take quite a while a complete. The lesson aims to introduce present continuous for descriptions and to help children revise colours through questions.   Read more Are native English speakers always better teachers? Do you think it is true that native speaker teachers are better than non-natives? Here are my thoughts on the discussion - do you agree? What other points would you add? Read more

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