E V O L V E S C H O O L: British Council TeachingEnglish 20 May 2015

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TeachingEnglish Newsletter

20 May 2015

IATEFL Online Manchester 2015

Watch recordings of talks and interviews from this year's IATEFL conference through our specially developed website.

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

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.

Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

Our featured seminar this week is by Mark Hancock - Doing things with sounds: Practical pronunciation activities for your classroom.

We also have a variety of interesting blog posts for you to read and respond to.

Our featured activity this week is Fun facts. And don't forget our huge bank of lesson plans for all ages and levels to help you in your teaching.

For those of you who teach teenagers, LearnEnglish Teens has a new article, video and story on the theme of football, and speaking exam videos to help learners prepare for their oral exams.

Finally, don't miss out on this month's webinars: Professional development through blogs and blogging, 21 May and two inspiring webinars for your continuing professional development on EnglishAgenda, 28 and 29 May.

We hope you find these useful.

Deb

TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC

Latest Seminar - 'Doing things with sounds: Practical pronunciation activities for your classroom'

Mark Hancock looks at individual sounds and things we and our students can do with them, including experimenting and imagining, representing and exploring, and playing and communicating.

Watch seminar

Fun facts

TeachingEnglishTry

This activity is all about fun facts and helps adults or older teenage students to practise question forms. This activity works well with mixed ability classes because students who might be less confident with their English have an opportunity of doing well because of their general knowledge.

Lesson plans

Every month we add new lesson plans for you to use in the classroom and we have hundreds of resources to help you with your teaching. Why not take a look at what we have now.
Find out more

Blog posts for May

Check out some of our very interesting May blog posts from Sandy Millin on exploiting smartphones and exploring cultures, or vocabulary tips from David Dodgson, or Personalisation

from Nina M.K.
Read more

New content on LearnEnglish Teens

If you have students interested in football, then check out the latest content on LearnEnglish Teens. There is an article all about Britain's obsession with the FA Cup; a video of a girl's team getting ready for the big match; and a story 'The Mystery of the Stolen FA Cup Medal'. There are also six speaking exam videos of typical activities you may use to help prepare

for the big day.
Read more

May webinars

Teaching blogs contain a wealth of information, but it can be hard to know where to start. In this webinar Sandy shows you where to find them and how to start your own.

And don't forget the two webinars on
EnglishAgenda!