British Council TeachingEnglish 09 November 2011

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 09 November 2011 Luke Meddings, co-author of Teaching Unplugged, was the latest in our regular series of Guest Writers. If you missed his postings you can catch up with them here. 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 in the newsletter we have a new lesson in our series building up to next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games, this week it features the sports of canoeing and kayaking. There's another in our series of video discussions that were filmed at this year's IATEFL conference, this time looking at what teachers think makes a bad lesson. There's an article on the practice of reading out loud in the EFL classroom and an announcement of a new competition - for teachers based in Turkey - to be a 'roving reporter' at Dogus University. Finally, there's also a new poll in which you can let us know whether you think it is important for teachers to motivate their students. Best wishes   Duncan   TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Canoeing/kayaking                    In this lesson students learn about canoeing/kayaking as an Olympic sport. They learn the vocabulary and the rules governing the sport. Students can see a web version of this lesson on LearnEnglish.    Read more  What makes a bad lesson?   Is a bad lesson a result of it being 'just one of those days'? Or are there other factors to consider? Watch the answers we got to this question at IATEFL 2011, and leave your own answers below.            Read more  Roving reporter competition - Turkey   Dogus University 1st Annual ELT Conference will bring together the ELT community to identify a wide variety of challenges in foreign language education in an EFL context. The British Council is looking for Turkish-based roving reporters to report from the conference. Read more      Reading out loud As a teacher I had always perceived 'reading aloud' as a 'taboo' in the EFL classroom since it focuses specifically on a 'bottom-up' approach where learners can fall into traps of worrying about 100% comprehension or simply read aloud without understanding the text. This year, all that changed. Read more  Is it important to motivate your students? Most theories suggest that students who have a high degree of motivation are more successful learners. However not all students have this level of motivation. Is it the teacher's job to help motivate students in this case?                Read more

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