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. Read more 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.  Register for this event 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. Go to the activity 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. Find out more 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. Register for these events 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! Blog of the month 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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