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. Go to the lesson plan 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. Go to the game 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. Go to the activity 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. Find out more 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.  Find out more 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.  Read Sandy's post 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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