British Council TeachingEnglish 05 October 2011

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 05 October 2011 This month we are pleased to say that our Guest Writer series is back. Luke Meddings will be the next writer in the series and he will be starting soon. 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! Today at TeachingEnglish we are celebrating World Teacher's day and you can follow a special series of tweets from British Council teachers around the world on our twitter feed @teachingenglish. Also this week we have news of the call for applications for the  ELTons 2012 award which every year recognises the value of innovation in English language teaching. As always there's something for you to try in class in the form of a lesson plan on the subject of portraits. We are pleased to announce a new feature on the site which is the TeachingEnglish blog of the month award. Every month we will be scanning the web for the most interesting an informative blogs about ELT from around the world and will be featuring the best one we find. First up is an excellent blog from Kieran Donaghy called 'Film English'. We hope you like it! All the best,   Duncan   TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC World Teachers' Day            Wednesday 5 October marks the annual World Teachers' Day, recognised by many countries around the world and promoted strongly by both UNESCO and Education International. This year, the theme is 'Teachers for Gender Equality', essentially a call for more equal working conditions and education that works for both girls and boys.     Read more ELTons 2012 - call for applications   The ELTons, sponsored by Cambridge ESOL, are the only international awards that recognise and celebrate innovation in the field of English language teaching (ELT). Applications are judged by a panel of ELT experts, the shortlist announced in March, and the winners are announced at an awards ceremony, held in London on 23 May 2012. Read more Keeping in touch with LearnEnglish Kids   Teachers can receive updates on new content on LearnEnglish Kids, share ideas with teachers around the world, contact the LearnEnglish Kids team and encourage parents to keep in touch with the site. Read more       Portraits   This lesson is about portraits and drawing. Students do a running dictation in pairs, listen to and respond to a partner's instructions to draw a face together, and then take part in a group discussion.           Read more TeachingEnglish featured blog of the month   This month, we're pleased to be launching a new feature on TeachingEnglish. We'll be looking at blog postings from around the world and choosing one as our featured post. Our first featured blog post is by Kieran Donaghy - we hope you'll find it as useful as we did!              Read more

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