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TeachingEnglish newsletter 09 March 2016

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09 March 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we have news of an upcoming webinar for March - Fostering learner autonomy with Lizzie Pinard.

For the classroom we have a new lesson plan for teens - Shakespeare and Manipulation, a challenging vocabulary activity for adults and a story based lesson for kids, 'Six blind men and an elephant'.

Our blog theme for March and April is taking responsibility for your professional development, and we have an interesting blog post on teacher reflection by Chia Suan Chong.

And finally, we would invite you to complete the IATEFL Online Survey. This is your chance to help us improve our online coverage for IATEFL Birmingham Online which starts 12th April 2016.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

This lesson 'Six blind men and an elephant' is based on a famous poem by John Godfrey Saxe. Six blind men meet an elephant for the first time and each man touches a different part of the elephant and makes predictions about what the elephant is like. The sequence and activities could be spread over two or three lessons depending on the amount of detail you wish to go into.

Teaching teens

This B1 level lesson is all about manipulation and Shakespeare's play Richard III. Activities include listening, reading and taking part in a discussion.



Teaching adults

'Same, opposite or different dictation' is an activity for higher level students, which involves dictating pairs of words and student discussion about meaning. Although it is challenging, it is a great way to explore shades of meaning.



Development

In order for learning to take place, a certain level of understanding is required to convert input into practice, and then practice into automaticity. But deeper understanding can only occur with the ability to reflect: to review, to notice, and to think carefully about what had taken place. Read Chia Suan Chong's blog post to find out more about how can we become more reflective teachers.

Events

Join us for our March webinar - Fostering learner autonomy - 15 March at 2pm UK time. Lizzie Pinard will be talking about how we can foster learner autonomy by helping our students negotiate real and virtual environments outside of the classroom to develop their English. This talk aims to provide teachers with a range of practical ideas contextualised by theories of autonomy and motivation.

Magazine

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