TeachingEnglish newsletter 25 November 2015

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 25 November 2015 Welcome to the latest newsletter from TeachingEnglish! This week we have winter activities for kids, a fun writing activity for teens, and an idea for integrating digital technology to revise past tenses with adults. The next EnglishAgenda professional development webinar is with Bríd Ní Chatháin, who will discuss how to improve reading comprehension for learners with dyslexia. Our featured professional development activity this week is one of our Video tips - 'Presentation for teachers'. And finally, we have an interesting blog by David Petrie outlining a series of activities, lessons and ideas that you can use to help your learners develop digital literacy skills. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Are you looking for winter activities? How about making a snowflake finger puppet and using it to say a rhyme? Or make a Santa-shaped advent calendar while learning numbers. There are also activities on feeding the birds, snowmen and of course Christmas. Go to the activities Teaching teens A dark and stormy night - the main focus of this activity is on developing writing skills, but it's also good for developing listening speaking and reading skills and also for practising past tenses, descriptive vocabulary and generally having fun. Go to the activity Teaching adults Integrating digital technology in the language classroom may be at times frustrating and challenging. However, by mixing approaches, one can achieve elements of higher engagement by giving learners the opportunity to learn, analyze and create. Take a look at this example for revision of the Simple Past by Ana Cristina Pratas.  Read more Development Have you looked at our Video tips - a series of short videos exploring different areas of teaching? Why not take a look at 'Presentation for teachers'? Watch and listen to Tony's ideas about colours, fonts and grouping when using a board or preparing a presentation.  Watch video Events Join the EnglishAgenda series of free continuing professional development webinars on a variety of thought-provoking themes. On 15 December at 10.00 UK time, Bríd Ní Chatháin will discuss how to improve reading comprehension for learners with dyslexia. She will explore some of the difficulties and suggest practical strategies and techniques for teachers who want to support struggling readers. Find out more Magazine David Petrie: Clickbait, Memes and sharing the truth - activities for digital literacies. One of Gavin Dudeney's recent articles on this site explores the ideas of digital literacies and emphasises the importance of incorporating them into your teaching. This article presents a series of activities, lessons and ideas that you can take away and use with your classes to help them develop some of these key skills. Some of them you can make a part of your regular teaching practice, others work better as standalone lessons. 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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