TeachingEnglish newsletter 06 January 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 06 January 2016 Welcome to the the first 2016 edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! Our brand NEW lesson for the new year is a role-play writing and review activity for teenagers and adults.  And we have some useful tips to help you with your first lessons with kids, and pair and group work with teens. Our featured development resource is the NEW 'Teaching English Reading and Writing Video Training series' with nine units of videos and tasks! We also have news of the 2016 GlobELT conference, and an interesting blog by Fiona Mauchline 'Motivating teens - as easy as finding a snowflake that won't melt'. And finally, don't forget the free training opportunities in January and February offered through The Electronic Village Online We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Teaching children takes a great deal of skill, patience and preparation, so this first tip is all about getting prepared and how to cope in your first few lessons. These tips are aimed at language assistants and newly qualified teachers. Read more Teaching teens When you're planning your lessons how much time do you spend thinking about how you're going to group students for the activities in your plan? If you have activities for pairs and groups, do you let the students decide who they're going to work with or do you decide? This tip looks at the advantages and disadvantages of the three main ways of grouping students. Find out more Teaching adults 'Your year in review' - for teenagers and adults at CEF level B1 and above - asks students to imagine that they are a famous international or national personality and complete a series of short paragraphs to review the previous year and look ahead to the next year. Go to the lesson plan Development The 'Teaching English Reading and Writing Video Training series' is a nine-part series of videos and tasks to help you explore different ways of developing reading and writing skills with your students. You'll visit classrooms from around the world and observe how teachers everywhere work with learners of all ages to develop the skills of reading and writing. Check out Unit one now! Go to the training series Events GlobELT, an international conference on teaching and learning English as an additional language, will be held in in Antalya, Turkey on 14-17 April 2016. The four keynote speakers this year are David Little, Norbert Schmitt, Derin Atay and Tony Green.  Find out more Magazine December's TeachingEnglish blog topic was motivation. And in particular motivating teens. Read Fiona Mauchline's blog: Motivating teens - as easy as finding a snowflake that won't melt, to find out how you can motivate your teens. Read the blog 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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