British Council TeachingEnglish 16 October 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 16 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!   This week we have our new monthly lesson plan which takes you on a tour of London. We also have a story-telling activity and an article about motivation and getting your pupils to read.    We have a new blog of the month too, and the latest post is all about using dice. And if you need help with dyslexic learners, check out our new link - Dystefl.   And finally, take a look at the new EnglishAgenda Podcasts - the first one's on new technologies for teaching and training.   Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC   Monthly lesson plan                                 Our monthly lesson plan for October takes you on a tour of London. This lesson is designed to be used with Teens and uses resources from the LearnEnglish Teens website. Students will expand their vocabulary, improve their listening skills and practise their  speaking. Read more      Featured blog of the month for September                                 Our latest featured blog post of the month is Rolling dice: Speaking games for TEFL teachers by Dylan Gates from his blog Online TEFL training. In his post, Dylan looks at a number of simple and effective ways to use dice in the English language classroom. Read more   Dystefl                                  Dystefl provides freely accessible teacher training and self-study materials to support English language teachers when working with dyslexic learners. Read more   Ask and imagine the story                                 This is a story-telling activity by David Heathfield which involves the whole class, and may be used with adult or younger learners. You can also read an article by David: Storytelling to celebrate cultural diversity. Read more    New EnglishAgenda Podcast                             The EnglishAgenda website has created a podcast aimed at EFL teachers, managers, teacher trainers, academics and researchers. The Engllish Agenda podcast will be a regular 15 - 20 minute talk show which tells stories of innovation in English Language teaching from around the world. In the very first podcast we take a look at some new technologies for English language teaching and training. Read more    Motivating pupils to read                                    This is the first of two articles that look at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating. This article describes ways to generate initial motivation, the second one shows how to maintain this motivation. Read more

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