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| Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we have news of an upcoming webinar on how to make peer observation work, a featured blog of the month and we announce the winner of the IATEFL 2014 blog award.
For the classroom we have two new lesson plans: Introducing Dylan Thomas and Writing A Story, and a game to practise vocabulary. We hope you find these useful. Best wishes Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC |
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 | Our monthly lesson plan for April uses materials in the writing skills section on LearnEnglish Teens and focuses on helping students prepare for exams by planning and write a story.
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| | | Peer observation - how can we make it work? | |
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|  | Webinar by Andy Hockley - Wednesday 30th April, 12.00 noon UK time. Peer observation can be a great source of professional development for both observer and teacher. Yet many schools either don't encourage it or have a system which doesn't really work as well as it might. Based on research into peer observation systems that work (and ones that don't) this webinar seeks to present some ideas for helping make your school's peer observation system as successful and useful as possible, thereby developing both the school itself and the teachers in it. Read more
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 | As many of you know, TeachingEnglish has a featured blog of the month award. For April, we also have an additional award for the best blog coverage of IATEFL Harrogate online 2014. The winner is: Reflections of an English language teacher by Lizzie Pinard. Congratulations to Lizzie, who provided insightful and extensive coverage of IATEFL online 2014. Read more |
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| | This lesson is designed to introduce students to Dylan Thomas in the year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. It gives students some basic biographical information on the writer and provides glimpses into his writing. It aims to give students the opportunity to get acquainted with Thomas' work by paving the way for future lessons on specific pieces of writing. Read more |
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| | Definitions - Get rid of it | |
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| | This game can be adapted for matching definitions to words or matching opposites. You need two sets of cards. White cards for the words and another colour (yellow?) for the questions. Put all questions in a bag or hat at the start of the game. Give each student at least three word cards, placed in front of them on their desks. Read more |
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| | Featured blog of the month for March 2014 | |
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| | Our latest blog of the month award is for Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat and her blog post English Grammar Pill: How to use the present perfect tenses correctly. In this fabulously visual blog post Shanthi has put together in one place all you and your students perhaps would ever want to know about how to use the present perfect! Read more |
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