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| Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we have a new blog of the month about multiple uses of newspapers and magazines for ELT, a video clip on humour in the classroom and an activity to practise question forms, The perfect teacher.
We also have a practical webinar on the art of delegation - Letting Go and a new publication, Policy dialogues - English for the
future.
And finally, if you want to keep updated on worldwide conferences, check out the crowdsourced calendar - 4C in ELT.
Enjoy! Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC |
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 | Our latest featured blogpost of the month is a post by Svetlana from her excellent blog TeachingEnglishNotes, and is about multiple uses of newspapers and magazines for ELT. In her post, Svetlana demonstrates how newspapers can be a great way to introduce students to everyday English and she gives several practical ways we can use newspapers and magazines in the English language classroom. Read more |
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| | | Humour in the classroom | |
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|  | Our latest teaching tip looks at how using humour in the classroom can help with classroom management as well create a warm atmosphere and help relax students. Watch Dale demonstrating some simple techniques for introducing elements of humour with a likes and dislikes activity and discussing his ideas. Read more |
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 | Our next CPD practical webinar will take place on Wednesday 29 January at 11.30 UK times. Delegation is one of the toughest
challenges a manager or leader faces. Typical challenges are fighting the urge to control everything yourself, finding the right person to delegate to and providing the right amount of guidance and support.
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| | The aims of this activity are for students to revise and practise open question forms. This activity is designed to be used with Pre-Intermediate / Intermediate level learners. It could be used as part of an introduction lesson and / or to negotiate classroom behaviour contracts between teacher and student. Read more |
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| | A crowdsourced conference calendar - 4C in ELT | |
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| | Finding out about different conferences around the world can sometimes be difficult. We try and update our upcoming conferences as often as possible, but we will always miss some. We recently found out about a crowdsourced calendar called 4C in ELT for upcoming ELT conferences around the world, which is the brainchild of Tyson Seburn. Read more |
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| | Policy dialogues: English for the future, Cartagena, October 2012 | |
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| | This publication offers information about all the discussions held in 2012 at the first Policy Dialogues: English for the Future in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.The proceedings document contains lots of useful information for policy makers and ELT specialists around the world to guide them on the kind of critical elements to take into account when conceptualising or implementing policy on English language both at national and regional/local levels.
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