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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 some really interesting content to get you thinking - videos on motivating students and using literature in the
classroom, a new blog with ideas on strengthening your learners skills over the summer, and a webinar to help teen teachers unlock their learners' imagination and creativity.
For the classroom we have a lesson plan for teens or adults - Rich!
And finally, enrolment for the new Learning technologies for the classroom course is now open.
We hope you find these useful. Best wishes Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC | | |
| | |  | Teacher talk is a new series of videos featuring some of our TeachingEnglish Associates speaking about important teaching issues. In this video, the theme is student motivation. Watch David Petrie, Adam Simpson, Lizzie Pinard, Chia Suan Chong, Anthony Gaughan, David Dodgson and Rachael Roberts discuss areas such as establishing learning objectives, giving activities a meaningful purpose, students' inherent motivation, varying activities and giving students a choice. Watch video
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| | | | July webinar - In a world of pure imagination | |
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| | | Teaching teenagers is a lot more than just methodology and materials. Helping them to overcome some of the difficulties that can affect their creative ability is one of the key challenges teachers face. In this webinar, 11 July, 12pm UK time, Fiona Mauchline looks at ideas for helping students become more creative and access their imagination. To quote Willy Wonka / Gene Wilder "There is no life I know that compares to pure imagination; living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be". Read more
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| | |  | Wa tch Alan Pulverness's presentation at the E-merging Forum 4 in March 2014. In his presentation "The Ghost at the Banquet: the use and abuse of literature in the language classroom" Alan examined the peculiar status of literary discourse and suggested methodological principles which favour the development of language awareness while maintaining respect for students as readers of literature.Watch video
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| | | | | T his course introduces teachers of English to key aspects of using new technologies in the language classroom and covers a range of web technologies, including using the internet, cyber well-being for learners, using Office applications, using online video and audio and using social networking and other web technologies for educational purposes. This course is now open for enrolment.Read more | |
| | Larry Ferlazzo: Ideas for strengthening English skills over the summer | |
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| | | | L arry Ferlazzo teaches English and Social Studies, he has written six books on education, writes a teacher advice blog for Education Week Teacher, and has his own popular resource-sharing blog. In this blog he explains how he has created virtual classrooms where students can easily enrol and do online activities. His students spent two or three class periods registering on these sites and trying them out. All but three of them let you create your virtual classrooms for free so you can monitor student progress, and they all are easy to set-up. Find out more | | |
| | Rich! | |
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| |  | Appropriate for teens or adults at levels A2 or B1, this lesson takes a light-hearted look at money and magazines. Students develop communication skills, use their imaginations and practise a variety of question forms and tenses to invent their extremely wealthy future selves and then take turns to be journalists interviewing and writing for 'Rich!' magazine. Download lesson | | |
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