British Council TeachingEnglish 23 November 2011

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 23 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.  Welcome! This week's new content includes a lesson plan on Badminton, and a recording of a recent British Council seminar in the UK. From the archives there's an article on revising lexis: do you do it often enough? There's also news of our 'Tools for teachers' on TeachingEnglish. We hope you'll find something useful!  Best wishes Rob TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Badminton In this lesson students learn about badminton as an Olympic sport. They learn the vocabulary and the rules governing the sport. As usual, students can see a web version of this lesson on LearnEnglish.  Read more  Surviving as a teacher Liam Brown's seminar offers ideas on how teachers can keep a sense of job satisfaction and all round happiness in the workplace by focusing on three areas: management, self-managed learning, and collaboration. Read more Revising lexis: quality or quantity?   This article from our archives discusses how much attention language teachers should pay to vocabulary acquisition research, particularly with regard to repeated encounters with lexical items. Read more       Powerpoint for teachers With interactive whiteboards and their associated software becoming increasingly common, few people give time to Powerpoint these days. In this blog entry though, I outline why I think it's a very useful tool for a teacher.                 Read more Tools for teachers Have you checked out our new section? We have a phonemic chart, flashcard maker, an ELT glossary and more. Coming soon - posters and a gap-fill generator!  Read more

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