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| Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we have news of the upcoming ELTons Award Ceremony which you can watch live.
We also have a webinar on how to become a teacher trainer and an interview with Y.L. Teresa Ting on writing and delivering CLIL
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For the classroom we have a new blog of the month - teaching infinitives of purpose and a lesson plan Destination - England.
And finally, check out the NILE ELT Glossary, a free online resource providing definitions and suggestions for futrther reading. We hope you find these useful. Best wishes Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC |
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 | The ELTons, sponsored by Cambridge English, are the only international awards that recognise and celebrate innovation in English language teaching (ELT). They reward educational resources that help English language learners and teachers to achieve their goals. Watch the award ceremony live on the EnglishAgenda website on Thursday, May 22nd. Red carpet interviews: 18.15 BST and Award ceremony: 19.00 BST Find out more
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| | | Featured blog of the month for April 2014 | |
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|  | Our latest blog of the month award is for Zdenda and looks at teaching infinitive of purpose. Students can get confused about how to use common modal verbs in the past. Zenda has created this great visual explanation to help them remember the forms plus 2 games to practise them. Read more
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| | This lesson gives students the opportunity to find out more about England. It is one of a collection of four Destination UK lesson plans that look at the four countries that make up the UK. They will have the chance to read about England and find out a little about its people, culture and icons. Download lesson plan
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| | The NILE ELT Glossary is a free resource consisting of over 150 terms and phrases from the world of ELT, each with fully-referenced
definitions and suggestions for further reading.
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| | Latest EnglishAgenda podcast | |
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 | This week we interview Y.L. Teresa Ting, 2013 winner of the ELTon for New Talent in Writing, sponsored by Macmillan Education. She talks to us about how she started writing CLIL materials and how she developed a procedure and approach towards teaching CLIL. She also discusses the contribution of neuroscience and cognitive psychology to teaching and explains why for her, the transmission approach to teaching is not effective. Find out more |
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| | How to become a teacher trainer: Silvana Richardson | |
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 | This webinar, on Friday 30th May at 16.00 UK time, is for experienced teachers of English as a Foreign Language who are interested in becoming teachers of teachers in pre-service or in-service settings. Silvana will explore the differences in roles and functions between teachers and teacher trainers, offer advice on how to find out about official progression routes for teacher educators in different local contexts, present ideas about how teachers can upskill and demonstrate upskilling for the trainer role to relevant stakeholders, as well as tips on how to find out if a teacher is ready to become a trainer. Read more |
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