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| 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.
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| | | | | Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we have recorded interviews with key speakers from the recent Teacher Educator Conference. We also have a special webinar on the ingredients for successful CLIL and a recording of out latest seminar - teaching grammar to the visually orientated learner.
For the classroom we have a lesson plan based on favourite pictures and 20 activities to animate your coursebook.
And finally, we have a survey for English language teachers in the Middle East and North Africa designed to better understand digital
behaviour. We hope you find these useful. Best wishes Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC | | |
| | |  | Throughout the Teacher Educator Conference (TEC) in Hyderabad, we interviewed some of the key speakers and recorded these interviews.
Each interview looks at the broad theme of the conference, Innovation in teacher education and the sub-themes, Innovations in continuing professional development, Learning from experience and Technological resources for language education.
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| | | | Keith Kelly - Ingredients for successful CLIL | |
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| |  | Join us for a special webinar by Keith Kelly on the successful implementation of CLIL on 06 March, 10am UK time. In recent years, it's been quite common to find governments with motivation for CLIL. It's less common to find motivated governments who think seriously in the longer term about CLIL implementation and all it entails, (though there are some significant exceptions). Successful CLIL depends on a variety of factors and this webinar discusses four of the factors relevant to successful implementation of CLIL.
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| | |  | What photos have you got on your mobile? Do you keep pictures in your purse or wallet? Have you got a photograph on your identity
card? This lesson gives students the chance to talk about their photos and then write a description of a favourite picture.
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| | | | | Our course book is one tool to help us engage and inspire our students. Often, it becomes our crutch. We lean on it when we lack time for lesson planning or fall behind in our curriculum. It is easy and quick to use the activities laid out before us, but are they the most engaging for our students? After my first year of teaching, I made a goal to lean less on the course book and incorporate activities that would get students to think about the content and make connections to the learning. Read more | |
| | Latest seminar - A diagrammatic approach to the teaching of grammar to the visually orientated learner | |
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| |  | T here are groups of students for whom the communicative approach doesn't work. Students from very traditional learning backgrounds don't like all the 'soft' skills and don't see the point of all the chatter, they want facts; students focusing on exams such as IELTS often prefer a more efficient system or, like the presenter, some are 'visual' learners. Mr Lezemore sees patterns and structure, even when a grammar point has more exceptions than rules, he learns with charts and tables and flowcharts, he likes clear graphics. The purpose of the seminar is for educators to reflect on strategies for assisting these types of learner.
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| | British Council teacher survey for English language teachers in the Middle East and North Africa | |
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| | | | The British Council invites English language teachers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to participate in a survey which aims to better understand the digital behaviour of English language teachers in MENA. The survey will be conducted in the week of 16th March and there will be one week to complete it. Read more | | |
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