Rabu, 24 Februari 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 24 February 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
24 February 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we have news of a webinar on Learner experience design with Nick Robinson and eltjam - and a blog post for you to read.

We also feature our blog of the month award, which goes to Cristina Cabal and her post Six Amazing Websites that Make Your Writing Stronger.

For the classroom we have a NEW Shakespeare lesson for teens - Violence in Macbeth, some exciting activities for kids on the topic of machines, and an activity for adults based on Wikipedia.

And if you're interested in new approaches to assessment, why not take a look at our Communicative Assessment online course.


We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

Children are often fascinated by machines; the way they work, inventing their own. Using the topic of machines these activities provide a wide range of sub-topics that will enable the children to experiment with their imaginations. Activities include some factual input about inventions, storytelling, kinaesthetic movements, and where possible computer work.





Teaching teens

Violence in Shakespeare's Macbeth is a B2 level lesson that encourages a personal response from students, asking them to discuss how ambitious they are personally. Based on plans to commit murder in Shakespeare's play Macbeth, students will develop their vocabulary and their ability to read Shakespeare's language.





Teaching adults

My Wikipedia is an activity 'about' the internet, but it doesn't start online. In fact it has to start offline: the idea is that students try and predict the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for their town, region or country.


Development

Communicative Assessment is a short 20-hour online self-study course for busy teachers and examiners of English who are interested in exploring new
approaches to assessment and testing. It is a general course suitable for teachers and examiners working in the secondary, tertiary or the private ELT sector.
Now open for enrolment.



Events

Join Nick Robinson and eltjam for a webinar on Learner experience design from 23-25 February 2016. In this engaging talk, Nick will provide an introduction to Learner Experience design for ELT, looking at effective ways to combine content, pedagogy, user experience and human interaction to create amazing digital learner experiences.
You can read Nick's blog post on Learner Experience here

Magazine

Our featured blog of the month award for January 2016 goes to Cristina Cabal and her post Six Amazing Websites that Make Your Writing Stronger. Cristina has some great suggestions for internet sites for students to use when they're writing and struggling to find the right words.





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Rabu, 17 Februari 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 17 February 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
17 February 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we have news of another webinar in the series showcasing ideas from the 2015 ELTons winning innovations - Little Bridge: The Playful Way to Learn English!

We also feature a NEW publication of training materials to develop cooperation and understanding between local English teachers (LETs) and native English speaker teachers (NESTs).

For the classroom, we have a lesson for kids which focuses on playground vocabulary, a discussion activity for teens on the topic of fashion, and a very practical series of articles on teaching reading by Dave Willis.

And finally, if you are a teacher educator, take a look at the freely downloadable British Council's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teacher educators.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

'Free time with primary students' is a lesson plan for A2 level students about playground vocabulary. Students will listen to a story; play an online game and practise speaking and writing.



Teaching teens

'Fashion statements' is a staged discussion activity which focuses on students' personal opinions of style and fashion. The activity revolves around students discussing to what extent they agree or disagree with a number of statements.



Teaching adults

'Reading for information: Motivating learners to read efficiently' is the first in a series of four articles by Dave Willis which propose a four stage methodology for teaching reading. Find out more about what constitutes efficient reading, and the first two stages - priming and reading.

Development

The British Council's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teacher educators is a guide to the professional development of all those involved in the education and training of teachers. The booklet shows you: four stages of development, seven enabling skills, ten professional practices and five self-awareness features.




Events

EnglishAgenda is pleased to bring you another webinar in the series showcasing ideas from the 2015 ELTons winning innovations. Here we present the 2015 winner of the ELTon award for Digital Innovation 'Little Bridge: The Playful Way to Learn English!' This award-winning English Language Learning website/platform that has caught the imagination of young learners around the world. Join the author Paul Rogers on Thursday 25 February at 17.30 UK time.


Magazine

New training materials have been created as part of a larger, British Council funded project: 'Investigating NEST schemes around the world: supporting NEST/LET collaborative practices'. They have been designed with the aim of developing cooperation and understanding between local English teachers (LETs) and native English speaker teachers (NESTs). They are free to download.




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Rabu, 10 Februari 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 10 February 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
10 February 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we feature lessons connected with Valentine's Day and The Chinese New Year for kids.

And to continue our celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we have two NEW lessons for teens, and Romeo and Juliet for adults.

If you are looking for development opportunities, our upcoming webinar for February is Teacher Stories with Briony Beaven, and registration for our CLIL Essentials course is now open.

And finally, if you are interested in integrating CLIL, read Dario Banegas's blog and related article.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

Valentines day presents an opportunity to explore a topic that can genuinely interest and hold the attention of children of a certain age. This lesson will give students the opportunity to write a poem and have it delivered to their secret love. 
Alternatively why not mark the start of the Chinese New Year - year of the monkey - with the story of how the years got named after animals? Learners will listen and retell the story, and review vocabulary of numbers, animals and dates.

Teaching teens

This lesson The life of Shakespeare provides students with an insight into the major events of his life. Suitable for A2 level teens, it aims to develop students' ability to read for detail, and give practice with writing, listening and speaking, focusing on pronunciation.

With higher level students, try 'Marvellous Metaphors'. This lesson looks at metaphors in general and then Shakespeare's metaphors in more detail.


Teaching adults

As Valentine's Day approaches, why not try this lesson based around the famous balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. It looks at the themes and language that Shakespeare uses to describe love. It also gives students reading, speaking and writing practice.
Go to the lesson plan


Development

CLIL Essentials is suitable for experienced primary and secondary school teachers, either language teachers supporting subject teachers or subject teachers working in a CLIL context. Registration is now open and the course starts 31 March.





Events

Join us for our February webinar on 17 February at 11am UK time when Briony Beaven will be looking at teacher stories for professional development. Telling stories of professional experience can be a powerful form of development for teachers and teacher educators, benefiting not only individual teachers but their educational institutions. Register now for this event.

Magazine

Overall, students and teachers feel motivated through content and language integrated learning experiences because they offer possibilities to use the language meaningfully by learning new contents through the language. Read 'The integration of content and language as a driving force in the EFL lesson' by Dario Banegas to find out more about how to do this.


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