E V O L V E S C H O O L: British Council TeachingEnglish 6 June 2012

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6 June 2012

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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter. This week we have a range of new and exciting activities for you to help your students remember key vocabulary in a variety of creative and original ways.

We also have a great new article on ways for students to remember vocabulary, comparing the use of lexical notebooks with vocabulary cards.

Are you looking for new training opportunities? Why not take a look at our Primary Essentials online course, which starts this Monday and provides a great introduction to the essential principles and practice of primary English language teaching.

For your classes this week we have a whole section dedicated to Business English, which provides lesson plans and downloadable resources for relevant topics such as meetings, negotiations and socialising. We also have several fantastic tips for using stories with young learners and a series of activities for using songs in class and listening for key words.

Enjoy.

Paul

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

Playing with lexical cards

Very often students know the meaning of a word but don't know how to use it correctly. This is often because they don't know what words go with what other words. This activity helps students expand their collocational knowledge of the nouns they already know.

Lexical notebooks or vocabulary cards?

Few would doubt that students should leave a lesson with some kind of transcript of it: be it a notebook or, if technology allows, pages from an Interactive WhiteBoard (IWB) emailed to your students - in order to be able to go over the material covered in class.

English for business

This series of lessons are divided into three sections: 'Meetings', 'Negotiations' and 'Socialising'. Each one gives you in-depth materials to take straight into the classroom. Each section has five parts, with downloadable worksheets and teacher notes.
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Primary essentials course

If you want an introduction to teaching English to young learners aged 7 to 11, then this course is for you. Using video, audio and community elements, you will learn the essentials to help you succeed in your teaching. The next course begins on 11th June.

Tips for using stories

As a teacher using a story in the classroom, there are many ways of using and exploiting the stories to help children understand and add to their enjoyment. On these pages you will find tips for using and exploiting the stories in the classroom.
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Listening for key words in songs

This is a fun activity which helps students listen out for key words. It's particularly useful for encouraging students to recognise familiar words even in difficult texts. This activity works well with all kinds of songs, and can be used to introduce a song, or simply as an enjoyable warmer or cooler.