British Council TeachingEnglish 22 May 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 22 May 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 the 2013 ELTons award ceremony which will be streamed live this Wednesday 22nd May. We also have news of the winner of the award for best blog coverage of IATEFL Liverpool online.   For the classroom we have a brand new set of teaching materials - Kaleidescope, a lively game to practise vocabulary and some tips to get you using stories with your Young Learners.   And finally, our article this week focuses on monitoring speaking and offers some useful and practical advice on how to do this more effectively.   Enjoy!   Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC ELTons awards ceremony livestreamed on Wednesday 22nd May 2013                          The ELTons, sponsored by Cambridge ESOL and now in their 11th year, are the only international awards that recognise and celebrate innovation in English language teaching (ELT). Watch the event live on the British Council website http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org and discover this year's winners. The red carpet interviews will be from 18.15-18.45 and the ceremony will be from 19.00-20.00 UK time. Read more   Kaleidescope teaching materials                      Kaleidescope is a project that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities - Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The series consists of a piece of poetry or prose, which looks at the city from an insider's point of view, and a complete set of teaching materials. A simple movie also accompanies the writing to help the language learner understand lexical or cultural items that require explanation. Read more IATEFL blog award for best coverage                         This year the British Council invited ELT bloggers interested in reporting on the annual IATEFL conference to become a 'Liverpool Online Registered Blogger'. As many of you know, TeachingEnglish has a featured blog of the month award. For April, we also have an award for the best blog coverage of IATEFL Liverpool online 2013. Read more    Monitoring speaking                           As teachers I think we all accept that there is a role for correcting student speech in the language classroom. However, in my experience this tends to take place either when students are speaking in open class - when all other students can hear them and they are under enormous performance pressure - or on a personal, one-to-one level, which naturally excludes other students in the class. Read more The fly swatter game                  Here is a lively and distinctive activity to practise vocabulary. When we have a new list of 15 or 20 words from a chapter, I play the fly swatter game. I write the words (without the article for nouns) in large print in rows across the board. Then I divide the class into two teams. The first time around with the fly swatters, I explain how the game works. After that, it's not necessary. Read more Tips for using stories                         On the British Council's site for young learners - LearnEnglish Kids - there are lots of stories which you can use to motivate your students. These stories have been specially written for children learning English. They range from quite simple to quite demanding in terms of the level of difficulty so choose carefully. The stories are currently divided into four sections. Read more

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