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Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we have news of the winners of the ELTons Awards 2015, and if you missed it you can see a video of the award ceremony.
We also have news of an upcoming webinar - Children's apps you can trust by Tracy Dumais, and a brand new seminar - Creativity in teaching and learning: What, why, how?
Our featured article this week is all about planning listening skills lessons to develop your students' ability to become more independent learners.
For the classroom we have our featured activity of the week, Jigsaw reading, and our lesson of the week, Parkour - find out more about this non-competitive urban sport!
We hope you find these useful.
Deb
TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC |
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 | This webinar on 18 June, 12pm UK time, uses lessons learned while developing of the British Council's LearnEnglish Kids Playtime app to reflect on the issue of trust in Young Learner app design, marketing and use. Using the design and development of the British Council's mobile app LearnEnglish Kids Playtime as a starting point and taking a look at some other apps along the way, this webinar will examine the ideas that lie behind the concept of trust. Read more |
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| | We are pleased to reveal the winners of the ELTons 2015, the only international awards to recognise innovative achievement in ELT globally. Now in their thirteenth year, the annual awards, which are sponsored by Cambridge English Language Assessment, are a celebration of innovation and excellence in ELT from around the world. You can also watch a video of the award ceremony which was livestreamed on 4 June, if you missed it. Find out more
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| | By developing their ability to listen well we develop our students' ability to become more independent learners, as by hearing accurately they are much more likely to be able to reproduce accurately, refine their understanding of grammar and develop their own vocabulary. In this article Nik Peachey outlines a framework that can be used to design a listening lesson that will develop your students' listening skills and look at some of the issues involved. Read article
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 | This is an approach to reading that involves the students in speaking and summarising skills. It is very useful when working with short authentic texts such as newspaper articles. Jigsaw reading can be done in two ways. Read more
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| | What do you and your students know about the non-competitive urban sport, parkour? In this B1 lesson students read about this activity, focus on informal language, then ask and answer questions about other activities in pairs. Find out more
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 | Do teachers need to be creative? What stops us from being creative? How can we and our students become more creative? Join this highly practical, interactive seminar to discover small changes that can make a big difference to creativity in the classroom. Two speaker sessions will provide successful activities and real-life examples to inspire creative teaching and learning. You can participate in two ways - either in person at the British Council office near Trafalgar Square in London or by participating LIVE ONLINE, Wednesday 24 June, 1730 - 2030.
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