British Council TeachingEnglish 10 July 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 10 July  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 publications on the theme of CPD and a book review by Jenny Pugsley.   For the classroom there's a lesson plan on TV viewing habits, an activity to help with sound/spelling relationships and an article to help you manage projects with teenagers.   And finally, watch a video from the Organising Better Learning Conference in Palestine.    Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC Continuing Professional Development: Lessons from India                            We hope that the ideas and experiences contained in this collection will provoke a more active and deeper interest in CPD, will lead to more experiments, innovations and research, and will help CPD to be seen as a central priority in teacher education, a development which is long overdue. Read more And, a useful resource for anyone wishing to venture into CPD, whether as a researcher or a practitioner or both is 'Continuing professional development - an annotated bibliography'. Read more   Young people and television                         In this lesson the students will look at the television viewing habits of young people in the UK and compare them to the habits of young people in their own country. They will begin by making television posters, then they will do a split reading activity in pairs. Read more C for consonant, V for vowel                             This is an activity to be carried out before introducing phonemic symbols. It is designed to teach students: the difference between sounds and letters, the difference between vowel sounds and consonant sounds and the difference between one sound and two sounds. Read more  Project work with teenagers                               Project work is becoming an increasingly popular feature within the ELT classroom. Common projects are class magazines, group wall displays about students' countries and designs for cities of the future. A project involves students in deciding together what they want to do to complete a project whilst the teacher plays a more supporting role. Read more Organising Better Learning Conference                    In partnership with the Palestinian Ministry of Education and UNRWA and sponsored by publishers Macmillan and Cambridge University Press, the British Council Palestine held the Organising Better Learning conference for English teachers, in Dar Al Kalimeh, Bethlehem on 18 and 19 May. The conference featured four visiting published English language learning and teaching experts from Britain who presented plenary sessions and workshops. Read more Innovations in English language teaching for migrants and refugees - book review                              Jenny Pugsley reviews Innovations in English language teaching for migrants and refugees, edited by David Mallows and published by the British Council in the series - Innovations: Teaching English. "Where language learning and teaching are suffused with politics (where are they not?), academic writing often proves high on rhetoric and low on tangibles. That is certainly not the case for this heart-warming, albeit unsentimental, and fascinating set of case studies." Read more

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