British Council TeachingEnglish 12 October 2011

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 12 October 2011 Our Guest Writer series is back, with Luke Meddings starting next week. Luke is the co-author of the award winning ELT book 'Teaching Unplugged'. 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 a double header of lesson plans for you to try with your students: one looks at the topic of card games and the other at the Olympic sport of boxing. Have you heard about the TeachingEnglish mobile site? It contains all the same great content but in a format which is easier to navigate on a mobile device. We'd really appreciate your feedback on how easy you find it to use and if there's anything we can do to make it better. If you've used the site please let us know by completing the questionnaire - see below. If you'd like to know more about mobile learning there's an interesting post by our Editor Rob Lewis about a useful application called 'Evernote'. Finally there's a call for help from one of our readers who would like to know your ideas about how to teach speaking to teenage students. Happy teaching,   Duncan   TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Card games              What card games do you know? Do you like playing games? In this lesson, students read about how to play a card game called 'Snap'. They practise expressions for playing games and then have the chance to write instructions for a game. You need at least one pack of playing cards for this lesson.    Read more  Boxing    In this lesson students learn about Boxing as an Olympic Sport. They learn the vocabulary and the rules governing the sport. The lesson will help your students improve their scanning and reading skills and will help them with improving their speaking skills in discussion. Read more TeachingEnglish mobile - what do you think?   Have you used the TeachingEnglish mobile site? If yes, what do you think? We would really appreciate it if you could spend a couple of minutes answering some questions here. This is the first stage for us in deciding how to improve the site. Read more       A great m-learning tool: Evernote    One of the most common questions I've come across over the last year or so - both from teachers who have asked it, and from speakers and writers who have answered it is 'What is mobile learning?' (also referred to as m-learning).              Read more Help please!   Hi everyone! I have already posted a question on how to teach speaking to children. The information provided by some of you helped me finish my research paper on that topic. Now I'm working with two colleagues on a new research paper on how to teach speaking to teenage learners. We'd like to hear your opinion on this subject.              Read more

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