TeachingEnglish newsletter 21 October 2015

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 21 October 2015 Welcome to the latest newsletter from TeachingEnglish! This week we announce the winner of our featured blog of the month - 'A few tips for mature entrants to the ELT profession' by Helen Dennis-Smith. For the classroom, we have a lesson plan for primary learners - 'Objects around the classroom', brand new Classroom rules posters for teens, and a discussion activity on the theme of other cultures for your adult learners. The featured professional practice from our new CPD framework this week is 'Using multilingual approaches'. We also have news of the 2015 IATEFL Web Conference: Making connections across borders in ELT, and this year's free online webinar schedule from Oxford University Press. And finally, we invite you to participate in the validation of a new set of CEFR Illustrative Descriptors for mediation by completing an online questionnaire. Find out how to take part here. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Objects around the classroom - this lesson for primary-aged students focuses on language to describe classroom objects. They will also review prepositions of place to describe where things are in the classroom. There is a fun song to practise the language, as well as several ideas for follow up or homework activities. Go to the lesson plan Teaching teens Check out our classroom rules for teens - our new range of classroom rules posters and badge builders are a great addition to your secondary classroom. Choose from funky pink, smart white, vibrant blue or dark purple. Go to Teaching tools for teens Teaching adults One of the good things about migration is the opportunities it brings for learning about other cultures. In this speaking and discussion activity students will be able to share their views and knowledge of other cultures.  Go to the activity Development This week we feature the professional practice from our new CPD framework 'Using multilingual approaches'. Find resources to help you with this professional practice. Using multilingual approaches And don't miss the Oxford Professional Development webinars. Oxford University Press have published details of this year's free online webinar schedule and there is something for everyone from 21st century skills to project work, and CLIL to name but a few of the themes. Find out more Events Don't miss the IATEFL Web Conference: Making connections across borders in ELT. After a very successful first Web Conference held in October 2014, IATEFL have decided to hold a second Web Conference on 23rd and 24th October 2015. Find out more Magazine Our latest blog of the month award goes to Helen Dennis-Smith and her post A few tips for mature entrants to the ELT profession. In this post, Helen offers some great tips for anyone who is thinking of becoming an English language teacher, particularly those who want to take the CELTA when they're older.  Read more You have received this newsletter because you registered on our website or previously showed interest in British Council news. If you wish to opt out of future newsletters please unsubscribe here.

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