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07 May 2014

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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

This week we have news of a conference in Portugal 'Assessment in ELT: Opportunities and Challenges', the Doctoral Dissertation Grants competition and the NELTA 2014 call for papers.

We also have an exciting new series of Blog topics for May for you to read and comment on.

For the classroom, we have a lesson plan and an activity designed to give your learners practice with speaking about the past.

And finally, don't forget our two upcoming seminars in Leeds and live online - Tuesday 13 May 1730-2030.

We hope you find these useful.

Best wishes

Deb

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

Assessment in ELT: Opportunities and Challenges conference, 21-22 November 2014

The Assessment in ELT: Opportunities and Challenges conference, organised by the Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies centre at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, will take place on 21 and 22 November, 2014 in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Speakers include David Little, Neus Figueras Casanovas and Joan Turner.
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Yesterday

TeachingEnglishTry

In this lesson students practise forming, asking and answering 'wh' questions in the past tense. They play two games and do a mingling activity.

When did you last ...?

This is a simple activity to set up and gives Elementary level students plenty of opportunity to speak and practise using the past simple.

TeachingEnglish Blogs for May

Motivating young learners to write, Development tips for novice teachers and The dog ate it (micro-writing activities) are just some of our exciting topics for May. Just register and log in to read and comment.

2014 Doctoral Dissertation Grants competition

TIRF - The International Research Foundation for English Language Education - is pleased to announce its 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Grants competition in partnership with the British Council. Grants of up to US $5,000 will be made to successful applicants. The application deadline is May 16, 2014.
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Call for papers, Journal of NELTA 2014

First published in 1996, the Journal of NELTA is a premiere publication of Nepal English Language Teachers' Association (NELTA). The editorial board would like to invite contributions for the 2014 issue of the journal. We encourage contributors to make their work relevant to classroom teaching as well as to serve the larger purpose of creating or promoting ELT discourses at local, national, and
regional contexts.
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