British Council TeachingEnglish 24 April 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 24 April 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 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 news of an upcoming webinar - The ultimate guide to CELTA, the new British Council exhibition - The English effect and the 2013 ELTons shortlist nominations.    And for the classroom we have a lessonplan on Learning Styles, an activity to help you measure your advanced students' progress and an article to help you develop your young students' learning strategies which also includes some activities to try.   Finally, the TKT Essentials course begins on 6th May. Sign up now for an online course in Communicative Language Teaching. Enjoy!   Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC     Webinar: The ultimate guide to CELTA - 1 May 2013, 15.00 UK time                    In this webinar by Cambridge English Language Assessment the presenters will give an overview of the CELTA qualification - the internationally recognised and highly respected TEFL qualification. Sign up for the Ultimate Guide to CELTA live webinar, have your questions answered by the experts. Read more British Council exhibition: the English effect                       'The English effect' is an exhibition exploring the English language in the world today and is being held at the British Council in London from April through to June 2013. At the exhibition, you can see the extent to which English has evolved by absorbing words from other languages. The exhibition also looks at the personal and economic benefits that English has brought the UK and people around the world. Read more  ELTons 2013 shortlist nominations announced                        The British Council has announced the shortlist for the ELTons 2013. Now in their eleventh year, the awards run by the British Council and sponsored by Cambridge English, are a celebration of excellence in English language teaching (ELT) from around the world. Read more Learning styles                Not only does this lesson allow learners to practise their listening skills by listening to other non-native speakers discussing the way they learn, it also gives them the opportunity to put what they hear immediately into practice. The activities here use the learning suggestions made in the extract and put them into a real learning context. The students will be encouraged to experiment with the learning strategies discussed in the audio with the end objective being to analyse their own learning styles. Read more  How to measure advanced level students' progress                       No matter what textbook(s) you may use, you will need some special tasks for a lesson which is dedicated to measuring the progress of your advanced level students. These tasks should be different from the ones used regularly, and they should also differ from the customary tests. First of all, instead of a separate grammar or reading test, you offer a test which combines various aspects of language learning. Read more Learner training with young learners                      Learner training is about developing students' awareness of how they learn. It aims to develop students' learning strategies with the intention of making learners more effective and independent. Learner training can be started with students as young as 5 years old! The article that follows contains learner training activities you could try with your young learner students. Read more

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