Rabu, 27 Januari 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 27 January 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
27 January 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
For those of you working with Young Learners, we have a NEW publication 'Early Childhood Education in English for Speakers of Other Languages' and a NEW article on the topic of writing.

For adults, we have an interesting warmer activity, and to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we bring you five new animated videos of his plays specifically developed for teenagers.

For those who missed our highly informative January webinar 'How to get students writing in class... and loving it', you can now watch a recording.

And, finally, if you need help with planning and preparing lessons, teaching methodology or using technology in the classroom, check out our free illustrated booklet, 'Action plan for teachers'.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

In this article 'Writing and Young Learners' Wendy Arnold and Rosie Anderson explore ideas around developing writing skills with young learners. They look at why it is important to develop these skills, theories to consider and offer some top tips for for encouraging more engaging writing tasks.

Teaching teens

2016 sees the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. To mark the occasion we have five new animated videos of Shakespeare's plays in our Literature UK section. There are also activities to check understanding and vocabulary, and topics for discussion.


Teaching adults

'Amazing facts' is a warmer activity which can be used with Intermediate level learners. It could also be used to generate interest in amazing facts as a lead in to a lesson using comparatives and superlatives.


Development

'Action plan for teachers' is a 44 page illustrated book on the subject of English Language Teaching which covers the topics of planning and preparing lessons, teaching methodology and classroom practice, as well as using technology in the classroom. The book also includes examples of practical activities for different stages of the lesson.


Events

Watch a recording of Rachael Roberts' webinar where she looked at a number of motivating writing activities that you can use with your students.This highly informative webinar looked at a number of issues around the theme of writing and Rachael gave several suggestions for engaging, communicative and effective writing activities which students will enjoy doing in class.

Magazine

This new publication 'Early Childhood Education in English for Speakers of Other Languages' will be of interest to practitioners, teacher educators, researchers
and families who engage with and/or are interested in the teaching and learning of English in early years settings.




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Selasa, 19 Januari 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 20 January 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
20 January 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we have news of a very special event to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death - a celebration broadcast live from Middle Temple Hall in London.

And if you're interested in E-moderating, don't miss our upcoming webinar on Thursday, 21 January. Find out more about our new course 'Starting E-moderating' and whether it might be suitable for your needs.

For the classroom this week, we feature a topical lesson for kids: What's the weather like?, a pronunciation game for teens and adults, and an activity to introduce poetry.

And, finally, if you need suggestions on how to help your advanced learners with pronunciation, check out Sandy Millin's blog post.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

In this lesson 'What's the weather like?' students sing a song to introduce the topic of the weather. Then they do a series of activities to practise weather vocabulary, and make a weather chart to practise question forms and short answers. For homework they record the weather for a week and talk about it in the following class.

Teaching teens

This is a simple, low-resource pronunciation game called 'What's the pronunciation?' where students compete in teams to practise words they have mispronounced.



Teaching adults

Use this activity 'gap-fill poems' to introduce poetry into the classroom and to raise learners' awareness of the beauty and fun to be had with poetry. It can also be used to practise learners' pronunciation.



Development

Join us on 21 January at 11am GMT for a webinar about the skills needed to be an effective 
E-moderator. Join Kirsteen Donaghy and Zoë Tysoe, 
E-learning Consultants for the British Council, to find out more about the new British Council course 'Starting E-moderating', and whether it might be suitable for your needs.





Events

Join Professor David Crystal and Ben Crystal's Passion in Practice Shakespeare Ensemble to celebrate the life and work of William Shakespeare in the year of
the 400th anniversary of his death. The British Council is celebrating with an event which marks the first performance of Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night: Or What You Will, broadcast live from Middle Temple Hall in London, where the play was first performed on 2 February 1602. 

Magazine

Pronunciation is just as important with higher-level classes as it is with lower ones, and often for the same reason: it is a key part of being able to understand fluent speech. In her post 'Advanced pronunciation' Sandy Millin describes a sequence of activities she's used successfully with her students to raise their awareness of features of connected speech. 






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Rabu, 13 Januari 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 13 January 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
13 January 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we have news of three exciting webinars: 'Teaching Shakespeare to language learners', 'My Way: blending professional development to support inexperienced teachers', and 'How to get students writing in class... and loving it'.

We also have a new blog of the month award, which goes to Robert William McCaul and Marek Kiczkowiak and their post Krashen's theories of language acquisition- do they still have value in the ELT classroom?

For the classroom we have a mingle activity for your lower level adults, and an article which will help you manage those difficult young learner groups.

And there's a brand new course on offer too - Start E-moderating!

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

Why are some young learner classes successful and others a constant struggle? Read this article 'Making a difficult young learner group better' to get some tips on how to better manage a challenging group.



Teaching teens

'How to get students writing in class... and loving it' by Rachael Roberts is a webinar which looks at a number of motivating writing activities that you can use with your students - 11am GMT, Tuesday 19th January. 


Teaching adults

'Mingling: Terry's trip' is a simple mingling activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in the past simple, particularly the question form. The lesson is designed for adults but could also be used with teenagers.

Development

Start E-moderating is a tutor-led course designed to introduce participants to the technical skills as well as the soft skills required to be an effective moderator in an online teaching and learning environment. Start date: 01 February 2016.


Events

We are pleased to bring you two webinars showcasing ideas from the 2015 ELTons winning innovations. The first is Teaching Shakespeare to language learners by Dr. Chris Lima - 14th January, 5pm UK time. The second is on 15th January - My Way: blending professional development to support inexperienced teachers, by Julie Day, Celine Castelino and Phil Bird.

Magazine

Our latest blog of month award goes to Robert William McCaul and Marek Kiczkowiak and their post Krashen's theories of language acquisition- do they still have value in the ELT classroom? In this post, Robert and Marek debate the merits of Krashen's theories on second language acquisition in their latest 'TEFL show'. Highly informative!





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