British Council TeachingEnglish 02 October 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 02 October  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, Adrian Holliday 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!   For the classroom this week we have a new lesson plan about 'food' as part of the IATEFL Global Issues SIG October event, and a discussion activity to find out your learners' classroom issues.    We also have a recording of the Jane Austen evening, news of the RSCON online conference taking place this month and a new collection of papers on teacher education in diverse environments.   And finally you can now register for our moderated Primary Essentials and CLIL Essentials courses.   Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC     Food issues                               This lesson plan has been developed to support the IATEFL Global Issues SIG and their October event focusing on Food issues Read more The lesson looks at two food-related topics: School dinners and Britain's Snack culture. In this lesson students do a jigsaw reading activity where they read and then compare two different texts about food issues. They do a fast and furious speaking activity to practise fluency. There are optional comprehension tasks based on the two texts to do in class or for homework. Read lesson plan     2013 Reform Symposium E-Conference (RSCON)                               The 4th annual Reform Symposium Conference (RSCON), a free online three day event bringing together educators, students and innovators from around the world, will be held between October 11th and 13th in conjunction with Connected Educator Month. The entire conference will be held online using the Blackboard Collaborate platform. Participants can attend this conference free from anywhere that has Internet access. Read more Training courses - register now!                                 Places on our Primary Essentials and CLIL Essentials courses are now available. Using video, audio and community elements, both of these courses will give you the best opportunity to learn the essentials you need to succeed in your teaching. Primary Essentials starts on 21st October and CLIL Essentials starts on 11th November. Read more  Watch our latest seminar: Jane Austen's 'Pride & Prejudice'                               To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, the British Council presented an evening of Jane Austen's sparkling conversations together with the music of her age, with Jeremy Harmer and the Bingham String Quartet. Watch now    Classroom issues                         Learners have a lot of ideas about how they should learn a language and it is important to encourage them to discuss these and to communicate them to the teacher. Many of these ideas are not necessarily things you agree with, and discussion also gives you an opportunity to explain your beliefs about language learning and share your rationale. Read more English language teacher education in a diverse environment                                  This volume is a collection of papers derived from the Third International Teacher Educators Conference held in Hyderabad, India from 16 - 18 March 2013 on the theme English Language Teacher Education in a Diverse Environment. The publication examines the many contexts in which English teaching and learning takes place around the world and explores a broad range of issues from the challenges of teaching and learning languages in large, diverse classrooms to the implications this raises for the training and continuing professional development of teachers. Read more

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