British Council TeachingEnglish 19 June 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 19 June 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 a seminar to challenge the way you teach - Demand High! We also have a brand new blog of the month featuring a toolkit for successful online teaching.   For the classroom we have a lesson plan which explores the themes of image-consciousness and personal choice, and an activity to practise the past perfect. And finally, we have an interesting new publication -  learning technologies for the language classroom, and an opportunity to win a tablet!    Enjoy!   Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Demand High for teachers and learners - seminar recording with Jim Scrivener                            Watch our latest seminar by Jim Scrivener on Demand High for teachers and learners. In his session he poses the question: Is whatever I do enabling students to be challenged to their full human learning capacity? Demand-High is the beginning of an enquiry. It isn't fixed or concrete or certain - but it does take a stand and argue. It isn't a method or anti-method but it has a view on how any method is applied. Watch seminar   Featured blog of the month for May                         Our latest featured blog of the month is a great post by Sylvia Guinan and is called 10 Online Tools to Master Language Teaching. Sylvia takes us through her toolkit for successful online teaching and shows examples of how she's used each of her 10 selected tools both in an online learning context and in a classroom environment. Read more   Image conscious                            This lesson asks students to discuss ways of changing their image before reading an informative article about tattoos. They then design a new image for a client of their company and then for themselves before discussing at what age they should be allowed to take certain decisions. The themes are image-consciousness and personal choice. Read more   Innovations in Learning Technologies for English Language Teaching                             Edited by Gary Motteram, this publication offers a different approach to the uses of learning technologies in the language classroom. As a regular classroom teacher you will be able to find lesson ideas to adapt to your own contexts; as a teacher trainer, there is a useful overview of the current state of the art in each of the contexts and a range of practical examples. Read more The English Effect - should we all sound the same?                    The British Council is investigating attitudes towards different accents around the UK. Take part in this research and you could win a tablet! Read more     I couldn't believe my eyes                             In this activity the teacher creates situations for the students to get plenty of practice with the form and meaning of the past perfect.   Read more

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