British Council TeachingEnglish 16 January 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 16 January 2013       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 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.      Premier Skills Communicate in two of the world's global languages - English and football  English Agenda The British Council's UK home for ELT and research Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we have a brand new blog of the month - ELT page. And on the theme of blogs, the TE Blogathon starts 1 Feb. You can also vote for your favourite website but be quick, voting ends 21 January!    For the classroom this week we have a lesson plan on social networking, a student-led vocabulary activity, and an article on CLIL.     Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC    Featured blog of the month for December            Our latest featured blog of the month is Luiz Otávio's ELT page. His post - '4 questions help you plan your next grammar lesson' - encourages us to ask ourselves a number of important and useful questions before and while we are planning a grammar lesson.   Read more   Blogathon 2013            The TeachingEnglish Blogathon starts on 1 February 2013! The Blogathon is a blogging marathon that brings together teachers of English (in Russia, Croatia, Israel, Uzbekistan and Armenia) to share good practice in ELT and find out more about blogging. Why not have a look and comment on what you read?  Read more Vote for your favourite website!           Over at the Macmillan Dictionary Blog voting is taking place for the second annual Macmillan Dictionary Love English Awards for 2012. Readers have the chance to decide which website and which blog deserve a community-chosen award for being the best website and best blog about the English language in 2012.  Read more  Social networking        For many people, social networking is seen as something to do instead of work. This lesson emphasises that social networking is real work. The lesson introduces useful language and techniques, building up to a large social networking simulation at the end. Read more Adopt a word          This activity encourages students to choose words, do some research on them and share them with the class.     Read more   CLIL - how to do it              Much has been written on what CLIL is and why to do it but there is little practical guidance on how to plan and teach CLIL lessons. If you are a subject teacher who has been asked to teach in English (or any other language for that matter), or a language teacher who has been asked to help teach content then this article will show you where to start. Read more

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