E V O L V E S C H O O L: British Council TeachingEnglish 27 June 2012

TeachingEnglish Newsletter

27 June 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 Adrian Underhill, Carol Read and Michael Swan.

LearnEnglish Teens

Welcome to our new website with material especially designed for teenage learners.

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 are please to be able to invite you to a TeachingEnglish webinar. Anthony Gaughan will be sharing his strategies for creating a successful lesson as well as answering all your questions. The webinar will be held on Thursday June 28th, 12.00 UK time.

In our Tools for teachers section we have a new addition: Board games. You can download and print out this series of board games for the classroom to help your students with their spelling and knowledge of phonetics.

We have two new lesson plans from our Great series. Heritage is Great explores some British historical attractions through a reading activity and Technology is Great focuses on extending vocabulary and reading skills. The skill of writing is the focus of our article which is all about motivating elementary students to write.

Our top story this week features Chris Tribble's newspaper article on the latest British Council publication and lessons learned from around the world about managing change in English Language Teaching.

Enjoy!

Sally

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

Webinar: What makes a lesson GREAT

Anthony Gaughan will suggest five characteristics of GREAT lessons in this webinar. He will be sharing his strategies for creating a successful lesson as well as answering all your questions. The webinar will be held on Thursday June 28th, 12.00 UK time.

Tools for teachers: Board games

Tools for teachers is the place to come for tools to help you inside and outside the classroom. Download and print out this series of board games for the classroom to help your students with their spelling and knowledge of phonetics.

Technology is Great

In this lesson students start by matching adjectives to images of London. Then they focus on reading skills and vocabulary to describe business. The extension activity practises presenting a product.
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Heritage is Great

This lesson explores some British historical attractions through a jigsaw reading activity. There is an active vocabulary exercise and the extension activities will allow learners to engage their creativity around the topic.

'Managing Change in ELT' book launch in India

Chris Tribble has written an article in 'The Guardian' about the latest British Council publication and lessons learned from around the world about managing change in English Language Teaching.
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Writing and elementary learners

This article is about bringing some energy and excitement to the process of writing in the classroom. It's about how to create a writing environment that is 'authentic'. It's about how to get our elementary students motivated to write.