British Council TeachingEnglish 15 March 2012

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 15 March 2012 Regular readers will know that the TeachingEnglish website has hosted a number of Guest Writers. Why not have a look at our archive where you can find articles and blogs by ELT luminaries such as Alan Maley, Dave Willis and Carol Read. 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 to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week the TeachingEnglish team are getting ready to go to Glasgow for the upcoming IATEFL conference. If you are going to be in Glasgow for the event you might like to come along to the launch of our brand new sister site LearnEnglish Teens which will be a great new resource if you teach teenage students.   As always there's something for the busy teacher to take into class, this week it's a lesson on the sport of swimming which is the latest lesson in our series preparing for the London 2012 Olympics. We've also got a new video tip which features James Clark who discusses how you can use cinema to help engage young people with citizenship. There's also plenty to catch up with on the TeachingEnglish blogs including posts looking at Apps to help students learn English and the latest in Penny Trigg's series looking at getting back into teaching.  Enjoy! Duncan  TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Swimming   In this lesson students learn about swimming as an Olympic sport. They learn the vocabulary and the rules governing the sport and the lesson gives them the opportunity to improve their reading and speaking skills. Read more    Using cinema to engage young people with citizenship   This presentation, with James Clark, explores ways of applying cinema, and potentially filmmaking, to the classroom as a means of enhancing student engagement with issues of citizenship and self in relation to students' wider communities and related concerns.  Read more Join the British Council networking reception at IATEFL Glasgow Are you attending IATEFL Glasgow next month? Come to the British Council's networking reception where we will be launching our new LearnEnglish Teens website. It's a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and make new ones!. Read more ELT Online Reading Group news The ELT Online Reading Group started in 2007 with a very simple objective: make short stories and poems available to teachers who have little access to literature in English - or little time to search around - and create a space where we could exchange ideas about the texts we read. There are now over 1,000 members from all over the world! Read more Back into teaching (6): My growing collection of pictures and texts!   Today I'm not booked for teaching, and I have a dreadful cold, so despite the tempting spring sunshine I'm definitely staying indoors.  It's an opportunity to do some much-needed filing, at least. Read more English Learning Apps for Smart Phones Recently, I witnessed an encounter between a teacher and a student.  Earlier, the teacher had given a proficiency test to assess the English language proficiency of her students.  Read more

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