TeachingEnglish newsletter 11 November 2015

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 11 November 2015 Welcome to the latest newsletter from TeachingEnglish! This week we have news of the British Council Services for International Education Marketing Conference 2015 - register now for this unmissable event. For the classroom we have a lesson plan for kids - Numbers, and an integrated skills lesson for teens - Natural disasters. We also have an informatve article on NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). Our featured professional development resource this week is our Teaching knowledge database - an alphabetical list of ELT terms. And finally, we have new blog topics and articles for November on the theme of Promoting 21st century skills. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Help your young learners talk about numbers and do some simple maths in English with this lesson at A2 level - Numbers. Students play a maths game, listen to and read a story, then play a board game. Go to the lesson plan Teaching teens  Natural disasters are constantly in the news and provide a good topic of conversation for your students, as they will all have some knowledge of the subject. This lesson for B1+ learners includes a drawing dictation, a simple sentence completion activity, a reading task and a group role play. Go to the lesson plan Teaching adults NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) has been around in language teaching longer than we may realise. Those teachers who incorporate elements of suggestopedia, community language learning, music, drama and body language into their lessons are already drawing on NLP as it stood twenty years ago. Find out more about the roots of NLP, NLP and language learning, and NLP in the classroom in this informative article. Go to the article Development Do you know what a 'Jumble activity' is? Or a 'Glottal stop'? Take a look at our Teaching knowledge database. The database contains a long list of ELT terms arranged alphabetically. To find the term you are looking for, browse using the alphabetical list or use the search box in the top right hand corner of the screen. Teaching knowledge database     Events The British Council Services for International Education Marketing Conference is returning to the Edinburgh International Conference Centre for this year's event on 10-11 December 2015. Edinburgh is a fantastic destination and we hope you will join us, and over 550 delegates, for an action-packed two days. This is an unmissable market insight event for professionals from the English language sector and registration is now open. Find out more   Magazine NEW blog topics for November focus on Promoting 21st century skills. But what exactly are 21st Century skills and are they the same as digital literacies? Read two recent articles written by Gavin Dudeney which explore the four key digital literacies: focus on connections, on language, on information and on (re)design. He also looks at the distinction between these and 21st century skills, and then get blogging! 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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