British Council TeachingEnglish 20 October 2011

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 20 October 2011 Luke Meddings is here as the latest in our series of Guest Writers. 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.  Welcome! This week we are very pleased to welcome Luke Meddings as our latest Guest Writer. Luke is the co-author of the ELTon award winning book 'Teaching Unplugged' and will be sharing his ideas with you in a series of articles. The first of Luke's articles looks at how coursebooks can actually restrict the opportunity to teach natural language and lead teachers to miss interesting classroom opportunities. We also have two activities from Luke that you can try in your classroom, one has students creating their own wikipedia entries and the other is an activity for young learners called 'Family snapshot'. Finally, we are pleased to announced the first release in a new series of online studies which will be looking at key issues in ELT. The first in the series looks at the issues facing teachers of young learners around the world. Best wishes,   Duncan   TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Not Unit 5!                In his first Guest Writer article for TeachingEnglish, Luke Meddings reflects on the constraints coursebooks can put on the learning experience in the classroom, and offers some suggestions on how we can overcome that.  Read more  My Wikipedia     This is an activity 'about' the internet, but it doesn't start online. In fact it has to start offline: the idea is that students try and predict the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for their town, region or country. Read more Family snapshot   If you teach young learners who are all the same age and live in the same town, opportunities for sharing and comparing life experiences can feel more limited than they would be in a multi-national class of adult learners. Read more       Global Practices in Teaching English to Young Learners   Research Papers is a new online series of studies from real classroom settings which address the big issues facing ELT practitioners worldwide. Produced in partnership with UK and overseas specialists, the series presents the latest findings in key areas of ELT - teaching Young Learners, learning technologies, teacher education and more.             Read more Teacher toolkits   This is an idea I've discussed with colleagues for a long time, and one I've often tried to incorporate into my workshops and teacher training. (And I should thank people like Andy Baxter and Michael Rodden for first getting me interested in it and encouraging me to develop that interest!)               Read more

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