British Council TeachingEnglish 15 March 2012

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 21 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.  Hello! It's the middle of this year's IATEFL conference in Glasgow and most of the TeachingEnglish team are there. If you can't quite make it to Glasgow you can still catch up with all the action on IATEFL live presented by TeachingEnglish's own Rob Lewis. If you're still in the classroom we've got a couple of lesson plans that you might find useful, one is called 'Three of a kind' and can be used to practice comparatives and superlatives and the other is the latest in our series on Olympic sports.   If you're looking for some inspiration you might be interested in our video tip presented by Jamie Keddie, in which he looks at how you can use video to tell stories in the language classroom. There's also an interesting contribution from one blogger who has a very strange problem with one of her students. Maybe you could help her out with some ideas.  Best wishes, Duncan  TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Three of a kind?   Use this activity to practice the use of comparatives and superlatives and to introduce more complex ways of making comparisons. As a sub aim it also revises various lexical sets depending on the things to be compared. It can be adapted to be used for all ages although it is essential that some previous introduction to comparatives and superlatives has been done. Read more  Fencing In this lesson students learn about fencing as an Olympic sport. They learn the vocabulary and the rules governing the sport and take part in a discussion to improve their speaking skills. Read more Crazy animals and other activities for teaching young learners This is a book for primary school teachers of English written by primary school teachers of English. It brings together the experience and expertise of teachers from around the world to provide a range of stimulating and exciting classroom activities for the primary classroom. Read more Videotelling In this seminar, Jamie Keddie shares a classroom technique for bringing storytelling to the YouTube generation. If you're interested in using video in your classroom then you will find some interesting ideas. Read more World poetry day!   World Poetry Day takes place tomorrow and reminds me how motivating and interesting writing poems in another language can be. They don't have to rhyme, although this can be a way of exploring sounds, and students don't need to write a great deal to produce something worthwhile. Read more Vocabulary proof It's a disaster! One of my students proves to be "vocabulary-proof". Whichever technique I try or tool I use it's just doesn't work out with her. And the problem doesn't seem to be in her lack of interest or reluctance to prepare for the lessons. Quite the opposite! She assures me that she spends up to 3 hours daily trying to learn the words by rote and doing all kinds of exercises. Read more

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