E V O L V E S C H O O L: British Council TeachingEnglish 03 July 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter

03 July 2013

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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

This week we have a new guest writer, Adrian Holliday, Professor of Applied Linguistics at Canterbury Christ Church University in the Department of English & Language Studies. And news of an intereactive course for teachers - Changing Englishes.

For the classroom we have a lesson plan on sustainable living and an activity for summer.

We also have a new link - Poplingual, and a new collection of papers on the theme of English language teacher assessment and programme evaluation.

Enjoy!

Deb

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

New Guest writer!

We are pleased to announce Professor Adrian Holliday as our latest guest writer. Watch his four-part workshop on the role of culture in English language education and read his article now.

Changing Englishes: an interactive course for teachers

English, like all languages, is constantly changing. But in these globalizing times, it is changing at a faster pace and in a greater number of contexts of use than ever before. 'What is English?' has become an urgent and important question for teachers. The Changing Englishes online, self-paced course is designed to help you meet the challenges and embrace the opportunities of new ways of thinking about our profession.
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Sustainable living: transport

This lesson introduces young learners to the concept of sustainable living. Students will become aware of being able to make a difference in protecting the environment. The plan works in small groups as well as a whole class. They carry out a class survey, make calculations about means of transport and produce a visual wall frieze illustrating the results of their survey.
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Summer destinations

These are activities that encourage students to talk about their plans for the summer. They practise descriptions of places using photos from travel brochures in groups and take turns in describing the place in their picture: the climate, the location, the activities you can do there.
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Poplingual

What's Popping in Language Learning! Poplingual curates the best of the language learning web in one place.

Assessing and Evaluating English Language Teacher Education, Teaching and Learning

Edited by Dr Philip Powell-Davies, this volume is an anthology of twelve selected presentations on the theme of Assessing and Evaluating English Language Teacher Education, Teaching and Learning, the focus of the International Conference of English Language Teacher Educators held in Hyderabad, India from 3 to 5 March 2012. This collection of papers will give the reader a flavour of the spread of topics explored at the Conference, and offer an overview of ideas that continue to influence contemporary research in teacher assessment and programme evaluation.
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