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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week on the site, you can watch the video sessions of all the plenary sessions at the E-merging Forum 5, which took place in March. There are some fascinating talks from a range of speakers, including Herbert Puchta, Steve Kirk, and Gavin Dudeney among others. Our featured lesson plan this week is one on Sleep by Sally Trowbridge and is aimed at teenage learners at B1 / B2 level. The lesson includes a running dictation and information gap reading task, as well as a debate about whether school should start later for teenagers.
We look back at a blog post from Raquel Gonzaga about how to integrate infographics in the ELT classroom, with some great practical ideas and useful links.
We also have an article by Jennifer Goodman which looks at how a teacher can structure an engaging course without a course book - something that can be difficult for new and more experienced teachers alike.
Finally, our featured publication will be of interest to anyone concerned with English at the primary level. It's a report from the UK on best practice for Teaching English as a Foreign Language in the primary sector and is based on three case studies.
We hope you find these useful.
Paul
TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC |
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 | E-merging Forum 5 is now over, but for those of you who couldn't join or participate online, you can now watch the video recordings of all the plenary sessions. There are sessions from a wide range of speakers and topics, including Jane Allemano's talk on Authenticity in Speaking Tests, and Herbert Puchta's talk about Teaching Very Young Learners. Read more |
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|  | How much sleep do teenagers need? Do you ever fall asleep on public transport?In this lesson plan from Sally Trowbridge, students will read and speak about sleep. It includes a running dictation, an information gap activity and a debate on whether or not school should start later for teenagers. Read more
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| | | Blog post: Raquel Gonzaga: Using infographics in the ELT classroom | |
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|  | Infographics are visual representations of information to make it easier to understand, and can be found all over the internet and in the news these days. In this blog post Raquel Gonzaga suggests lots of engaging ways to integrate infographics into the ELT classroom.
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 | Not all classes follow course books and sometimes teachers will choose to structure a course without one. In this article, Jennifer Goodman looks at some of the drawbacks of using course books, and how teachers can devise a topic-based syllabus using clear objectives without one. Read more
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| | This accessible and informative report considers current best practice for teaching English as a Foreign Language in the primary sector. Based on three case studies of high performing education systems, the report's recommendations will be of interest to anyone concerned with English at primary level.
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