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TeachingEnglish newsletter 10 February 2016

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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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