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| 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.
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| | | |  | | | | Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we have a seminar - Coaching and Mentoring Skills for ELT, and recordings from the Special Educational Needs Conference in Serbia. For the classroom we have a lesson plan to practise the vocabulary of jobs and reading and speaking skills, and a game to practise and remember homophones. We also have the first issue of a new online journal - Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELE), and a new publication - New Directions: Assessment and Evaluation. Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC | | |
 | | | | Whether you are a teacher, a teacher trainer or an ELT manager, this session is relevant to your work. Coaching and mentoring skills are techniques used to help people achieve their goals, whether those are language learning goals, or professional development objectives, or career ambitions. Read more | | |
 | | | | Special Educational Needs conference - Challenges and solutions |  |
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| | | The conference organised by British Council Serbia and facilitated by Phil Dexter, British Council UK, Marie Delaney, David Crabtree, UK Special Educational Needs Consultants plus Biljana Pavlovic and Vera Savic SEN specialists from Serbia attracted almost 300 teachers, Ministry of Education professionals and funding partners. If you were unable to attend the conference in person or watch any of the livestream, you can watch the recordings. Read more
|  | | | | The aims of this lesson are to provide practice of the vocabulary of jobs and of reading and speaking skills. The lesson is based around a jigsaw reading exercise on a text about a survey of hairdressers. It introduces the topic of jobs with discussion and a dictation, then asks learners to identify and exchange information. It finishes with learners giving their own opinions about what makes a good/bad job. Read more | | |
 | | | | This game is a natural follow on from the Homophone dictation and can be used to help the students practise and remember homophones.
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| | Children's literature in English Language Education E-Journal (CLELE journal) |  |
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| | | The CLELE journal - Children's Literature in English Language Education e-journal - is a new, bi-annual, comprehensively peer-reviewed, on-line journal. This first issue contains five papers sharing perspectives from Poland, Germany, Lebanon, India and Portugal, offering perceptive and innovative ideas, suggestions and shared experience with students from primary through to secondary education. | | |
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