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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
We are taking a break during August but will be back in September with more exciting top stories and activities. This week we have a brand new tip which explores the area of online game-based learning. For the classroom, we have skills practice for teenagers including an article on the Royal Baby, a conversation lesson based on news stories and a holiday debating activity. We also have an article to help you identify tasks for TBL and activities which can easily be turned into tasks. Finally, why not check out our self-access course which will be coming soon - Learning Technologies in the Classroom. Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC |
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 | Online game-based learning has risen in popularity recently, but there is still some debate about how effective it is as a learning tool. Our latest tip, with David Gatrell, explores this area and demonstrates how it can provide opportunities for language learning and motivation.
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|  | This is the first in a series of four articles which will explore how to integrate a task-based approach into a typical textbook to maximise learning opportunities for your learners and to save teacher preparation time. In this first article I start by looking at what we mean by 'task'. This will enable us to identify activities in our textbooks which have most of the characteristics of tasks. It will also enable us to identify activities which we can adjust and turn into tasks. Read more
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 | This course is for teachers who are relatively inexperienced in using technologies in the language classroom. It also takes into account different situations in which teachers find themselves: both where technology is only available outside the classroom, and where the classroom is well-resourced with IT.
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| | Encourage your teens to improve their reading skills with our articles about the Royal Baby, Ramadan etc. stories and poems. Watching the videos in our Video UK section will help with listening skills and we will soon have sections to help you improve your writing and speaking. Watch this space! Read more |
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 | Where were you when you heard about..? There are some news stories which leave nobody in any difficulty when answering this question, so even allowing for sensitivity to certain subjects in a classroom situation, there are already dozens of things most people can talk about.
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| | If If you've got a confident class with a passion for debate this activity could be the ideal way to allow learners to let off a bit of steam, while allowing the teacher to retain relative control over the language used. It is an interaction between holidaymakers demanding a refund, and travel agents determined not to give it.
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