British Council TeachingEnglish 12 April 2012

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 12 April 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 Jamie Keddie, Dave Willis and Michael Swan. 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 latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we have the a new video in our popular series of British Council Seminars, in this session you can watch Dot Powell introducing the new ESOL Nexus website which will be a valuable resource for teachers and students alike.   If you teach young learners, don't forget there are lots of resources on our sister site LearnEnglish Kids and this week we've got some ideas about how you might like to incorporate the stories you find there into lessons. There's plenty for you to try in the classroom including an introduction to the background of the Olympic games and a useful conversation lesson on a topic that everyone loves to talk about, 'money'.    TeachingEnglish will be taking a break next week for the Easter holidays but the newsletter will be back on April 25.  Best wishes, Duncan  TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Choosing and using resources with ESOL learners   Dot Powell, manager of the British Council's project to create a portal for ESOL teachers and learners, looks at criteria we use to make judgements about ESOL materials, and offers a first look at the ESOL Nexus website.    Read more  Tips for using stories On the British Council's site for young learners - LearnEnglish Kids - there are lots of stories which you can use to motivate your students. These stories have been specially written for children learning English. They range from quite simple to quite demanding in terms of the level of difficulty so choose carefully. Read more The Story of the Olympic Games    As we get nearer to the 2012 Olympics we thought you might want to refresh your students' knowledge about the history of the games. In this lesson students learn about the history of the Olympic Games and practise the present simple tense and the third person singular -s ending.   Read more Money conversations A good conversation lesson can often begin with the students not being sure what the topic of the day is. Not that we want to keep them in the dark for long, but it can get their attention when things aren't so clear from the outset.  Read more  Programme 9: Teacher reading   'Teaching reading' is a subject at the very heart of learning. What steps can we take to make students more confident readers? And how can we find a variety of materials - or 'texts' - for our students to read?  Read more The E-merging Forum 2012: Revisited Hi, everybody! Last week I made a presentation at the 2nd international E-merging Forum organised by the British Council. It took place at the business-hotel Aerostar in Moscow. It was really a great event which really succeeded in uniting teachers from Russia and abroad! There were some great presentations from our talented Russian teachers. Read more

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