E V O L V E S C H O O L: Mei 2012

TeachingEnglish Newsletter

30 May 2012

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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we are very pleased to announce the winners of the British Council ELTons, a celebration of excellence in English language teaching from around the world.

We have a call for articles from the journal published by the IATEFL English for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group (ESP SIG). Currently ESP SIG are collecting articles for Issue 40 to be published in Autumn 2012.

You might like to watch Hilary Nesi's seminar on the written genres university students are required to produce in different disciplines and at different levels of study. Reading and vocabulary are the focus of our article on revisiting texts, which includes a series of activities to draw students' attention to the useful lexis in readings.

For your classes this week we have a lesson about English, and other languages (including endangered languages) that the students may know, from our 'Great' series. We also have an activity called the 'Goodbye game'. This activity is perfect for last lessons, but can be used in other contexts too.

Enjoy.

Sally

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

ELTons 2012 winners announced

The winners of the British Council ELTons, a celebration of excellence in English language teaching from around the world, were announced at a ceremony in London on 23 May 2012. Awards were given in seven categories.

ESP SIG call for articles

Professional and Academic English is a peer-reviewed journal published by the IATEFL English for Specific Purposes Special Interest Group (ESP SIG). The journal publishes articles from researchers and practitioners.

The essay and beyond: writing for different purposes in British universities

Hilary Nesi, Professor in English language at Coventry University, discusses the written genres university students are required to produce in different disciplines and at various levels of study.

Revisiting texts

We often encourage our students to infer words from the context as they read and, as a result, they fail to notice useful lexis in the texts we use. This is especially true in the case of chunks consisting of the words students already know.

English is Great

This lesson is about the English language and other languages that the students may know. It develops speaking skills and the use of idiomatic language and uses the students' experiences and opinions as the basis of discussions and written work.
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Goodbye game

This activity is great for the last lesson of a course, but could be used in other contexts too. No preparation is really necessary for this activity. However it might be useful to have some situations prepared on the board in advance.
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