E V O L V E S C H O O L: November 2013

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27 November 2013

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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

This week the TeachingEnglish Facebook page reached 1 million likes - fantastic!

To mark the launch of our Special Educational Needs (SEN) online training course, this week we announce a new and exciting series of articles about different aspects of special educational needs (SEN)!

And our week-long series of webinars on teaching English to learners with SENs starts Monday 02 December. Check out our programme now!

We also have 2 new lesson plans for you to try out and news of the world's largest global e-learning conference - Online Educa

Berlin.

Enjoy!

Deb

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

TeachingEnglish Facebook page reaches 1 million likes

This week, the TeachingEnglish Facebook page reached 1,000,000 likes. This is fantastic news and testament to the work that our social media team, led by Ann Foreman, is doing. Ann does an amazing job of engaging users by sharing a huge variety of interesting, thoughtful and useful resources.
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Teaching English to learners with Special Educational Needs (SENs) - Myths and realities

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Do you think that you have learners with SENs in your class and you are not sure how to support them? Many teachers do not feel that their teacher training has prepared them for including learners with SENs in their classrooms. In my experience, there are some common myths and misconceptions around the teaching of learners with SENs.
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Speech and Language Impairment

If we discover that there is a learner with speech and language difficulties in our class we might wonder how to help them to get the most from our lessons. By understanding the different kinds of speech and language impairment and knowing some useful teaching strategies we can really make a difference to these learners and help them to experience enjoyable and successful learning.
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Athletics: track and field at the Commonwealth Games

This lesson is for 7-10 year-olds and is designed to help students learn about Athletics at the Commonwealth Games, the values around the Games and specific vocabulary related to field and track athletics.
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Monthly lesson plan - Movember

In this lesson students read about the Movember charity, discuss issues related to charities and health, then join an 'imaginary' online chat group to organise their own charity event. Suitable for adults and secondary CEF level B1-B2.
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Online Educa Berlin - December 4th - 6th 2013 at the InterContinental Hotel, Berlin, Germany

The British Council will be exhibiting at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, the world's largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors. The British Council is the official sponsor of the pre-conference LANGUAGES & BUSINESS Forum taking place on 4 December, during which experts will exchange views on the latest trends in language training and the benefits of technological developments.
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