E V O L V E S C H O O L: British Council TeachingEnglish 18 September 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter

18 September 2013

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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

This week we have news from the European Profiling Grid, a tool developed to assess language teaching competencies.

For the classroom we have a lesson plan and activity about cities, an article to get you using art in the classroom and a wealth of

materials on 'Seasons' to use with kids.

And finally, why not check out our TeachingEnglish radio series where you can download programmes and materials?

Enjoy!

Deb

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

European Profiling Grid newsletter

The European Profiling Grid (EPG) is a tool for mapping and assessing language teacher competencies internationally. It contains sets

of descriptors organised over six stages of professional experience as a language teacher (novice to very experienced) and summarises the main competencies of language teachers and the background in training and experience that would be expected at each stage. The 4th issue of the EPG Newsletter is now available online or to download below.

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TeachingEnglishTry

This lesson takes a different approach to developing listening skills. It enables each student to participate at their own level. There are no questions with correct answers or incorrect answers, instead the students do a number of different tasks and attempt to extract information from the text.
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Choose a city

In this speaking activity students think about and discuss a city they would like to live in for a year. The activity is based on themes from the British Council OPENCities project.
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Art in the classroom

As the saying goes, 'Art is all around us'. In its many forms it presents fantastic opportunities for discussion, focused language work and skills-based activities. However, this bottomless cultural resource is largely underused by many language teachers. In this article I will describe its place in the classroom by exploring the following areas and discussing some practical ideas.
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The Seasons

On the Learn English Kids website you can find a wealth of materials for teaching about the seasons. This is a wide-ranging topic touching on what happens in each season, how seasons differ around the world, why we have seasons and animal behaviour throughout the seasons.You can find activities to practise vocabulary, lots of reading activities at different levels including a flash-animated story.
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TeachingEnglish radio

Developed in 2010, each episode in series 1 is accompanied by a two-page teacher support sheet. These teacher support materials present a large part of the programme script together with ideas for reflection. You can listen to the programmes and download the materials.
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