British Council TeachingEnglish 10 September 2014

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TeachingEnglish Newsletter 10 September 2014            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. Online teacher training courses. Continue your professional development with our moderated and self-access training courses LearnEnglish Teens  Welcome to our website with material especially designed for teenage learners. LearnEnglish Kids Children can develop their English skills with topic-based games, songs, stories. LearnEnglish Develop your English, with language games, downloads, stories and articles. BritLit The aim of BritLit is to help teachers from around the world to exploit English literature in the ELT classroom.      Premier Skills  Communicate in two of the world's global languages - English and football  English Agenda The British Council's UK home for ELT and research Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we report on a record 100,000 registrations for the British Council's MOOC and announce the winners of the Language Learner Literature Awards. We also have news on the English Language Teacher Educator Conference 2015 - Hyderabad, and two new lesson plans for you try. And finally, if you're interested in becoming a plenary or keynote speaker, check out our latest webinar to find out how it's done. We hope you find these useful. Best wishes Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC   British Council MOOC reaches 100,000 registrations                                       A record number of people from around the world have joined the British Council's new course 'Exploring English: Language and Culture' and it's not too late for learners to sign up. The course is delivered on the FutureLearn social learning platform, a UK-based provider of Massive Open Online Courses [MOOCs] in the global higher education sector. The British Council's new MOOC for English language learners has attracted the highest number of registrations for a FutureLearn course to date, and helped the platform reach new global audiences. Find out more   Winners of the 2014 Annual Language Learner Literature Awards announced                                         The Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF), an unaffiliated, not-for-profit organization that supports and promotes extensive reading in language education, have announced the winners of the 11th Annual Language Learner Literature (LLL) Awards for books published in 2013. An international jury chose the finalists in five book categories, taking into account online votes and comments of students and teachers around the world. The winning books were announced at the CLESOL (Community Languages and ESOL) conference in Wellington, New Zealand, July 2014. Read more Webinar on becoming a plenary keynote speaker                                         The Fair List is running their first ever webinar, in collaboration with the IATEFL Leadership and Management Special Interest Group, on 'Preparing for your first keynote talk or plenary'. All are welcome to attend and it is especially aimed at women who are thinking about dipping their toes in these waters for the first time. The speakers will be Susan Barduhn and Simon Greenall. All those attending the webinar will have the opportunity to put in a proposal for a webinar of their own to Cambridge English Teacher (CET). If their proposal is selected they will have the chance to do their first plenary via audio-only webinar with help from a supportive CET moderator. Read more Zeppelin raids                                         This lesson is about the first ever air attacks on Britain, which occurred during the First World War. It provides students with reading practice in the form of a graded authentic text and listening practice based on a short podcast with authentic eyewitness accounts of Zeppelin attacks. Read more The outbreak of war                                    This lesson uses information gaps to create a speaking activity in which students recount three different eyewitness accounts of the outbreak of war in 1914. Students work in groups of three, with each describing the experiences of a different person. The lesson then features study of the past tenses used in these three accounts, and students again compare notes in groups of three to check their answers. Read more English Language Teacher Educator Conference 2015 - Hyderabad: Call for papers                                 British Council and English and Foreign Languages University in India co-host an annual conference for English Language Teacher Educators. This event is considered to be the world's largest English Language Teacher Educator Conference and is now in its fifth year. The conference will be held again at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India from 27 February - 1 March 2015. The theme of the conference is Ensuring Quality in English Language Teacher Education. Read more

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