E V O L V E S C H O O L: British Council TeachingEnglish 19 November 2014

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19 November 2014

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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

This week we have news of a special series of webinars for our CPD month in addition to a podcast by Alison Barrett, Director of English for Education Systems, South Asia who discusses her ideas on CPD.

We also have an interview and blog article on getting started as an online teacher of English by Emma Segev.

There is also a new and exciting lesson plan of the month on the topic of 'names' and a featured blog of the month - Larissa Albano, 'Teaching for exams? Have fun! Gift bags'.

And finally, why not check out the free online course Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching!

We hope you find these useful.

Best wishes

Deb

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) month - upcoming webinars

Don't miss our free webinars this month! Monday 24 November: 'CPD that works' with Silvana Richardson; Tuesday 25 November: 'What Lies Beyond? CPD with Lasting Impact' with Jo Stirling; Wednesday 26th November: 'Watch, learn, practise: video based CPD and collaboration' with Loraine Kennedy; Thursday 27th November: 'Teacher-research as CPD, in practice' with Richard Smith and Paula Rebolledo.
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EnglishAgenda podcast: 17 November 2014

This week we interview Alison Barrett, the British Council's Director of English for Education Systems, South Asia who discusses her ideas on continuing professional development (CPD), based on her teaching and training experiences and her extensive work with teachers and policy makers in India.
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How to get started as an online teacher of English

Have you thought about teaching English online? Emma Segev, second-time winner of the British Council's Teaching English blog award, gives some practical tips and useful websites for getting started. Read more

You can also hear the interview with Emma Segev. who gives some practical tips and recommendations on how to go about teaching English online successfully. Listen now

Monthly lesson plan

Our great new monthly lesson plan for November looks at the topic of 'names' and is designed to help teenage and adult students develop their listening skills but other skills are integrated too, with opportunities for speaking, reading and writing.
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Featured blog of the month for October 2014

Our latest blog of the month award is for Larissa Albano and her blog post 'Teaching for exams? Have fun! Gift bags' . With this post, which helps students with word formation, Larissa shows that preparing for exams can be good fun for all concerned! You can also check out our shortlisted posts for October 2014.
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Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching

What is language? How do we learn meaning in a new language? What is easy and hard about learning another language? And what is the best way to teach English as a foreign language? This free online course suggests some answers to these questions. Course started 17 November, but it's not too late to join.
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