British Council TeachingEnglish 23 October 2013

TeachingEnglish Newsletter 23 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 celebrate 10 years of BritLit with an article by Fitch O'Connell and a brand new kit - Joha and the End of the World!    We also have new Halloween ideas on LearnEnglish Kids and a fun activity to try, 'Interview the experts'. And if you want to know how to use questioning as an effective tool for learning, take a look at our article 'Asking questions'.   Finally, there are still places available on our TKT and CLIL Essentials courses which start in November, register now!   Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC   BritLit 10 years on                                   BritLit, a joint adventure between the British Council in Portugal and APPI (the Portuguese Teachers Association), celebrates its 10th birthday this month! Fitch O'Connell reflects on 10 years of BritLit and how it has become a global resource offering teachers access to literature materials for the classroom. Read more    Britlit 10th Anniversary kit: Joha and the End of the World                                  This BritLit kit, written to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the project, is the first of what we hope will be many tales taken from the traditional and given a modern makeover. Joha is a traditional figure in many North African folk tales, and frequently represents a somewhat contradictory figure - he can be fun, simple, intelligent, cunning, naïve and lucky, often all within the same story. Read more    Interview the experts                                   Three students sit in a line at the front of the class. They are the experts, but they don't know what they are experts about. The rest of the class choose the area of expertise - e.g. cooking, car maintenance, trees. The other students then ask the experts questions and the experts answer them. Each expert uses only one word at a time. Read more Training courses                                 Places on our CLIL Essentials and TKT 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. CLIL Essentials starts on 11th November and TKT Essentials starts on 18th November. Read more     Halloween                            Happy Halloween from the team at LearnEnglish Kids! There are lots of activities for Halloween on our site such as stories, songs, word games and more. Read more Asking questions                                    Typically, teachers ask between 300-400 questions per day, however the quality and value of questions varies. While questioning can be an effective tool, there is both an art and science to asking questions. Read more

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