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TeachingEnglish newsletter 20 April 2016

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20 April 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

After a fabulous IATEFL conference we are back this week with more resources and news.

To start, you can catch up on all the plenaries, conference sessions and interviews you might have missed at IATEFL Birmingham 2016.

If you work in a low-resource context, you can check out our NEW training resources, which include primary and secondary stories of success.

We also have a brand NEW blog of the month award. Chia Suan Chong posts 5 reasons why native speakers need to learn to speak English internationally.

For the classroom we have Fairy Tales for kids, and Find the murderer for teens.

And finally, watch a recent video talk by Raymond Murphy on his publication English Grammar In Use.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

Fairy Tales provide a wealth of possibilities for teaching English topics. Each fairy tale has its own magical setting and is split into several scenes. Within each scene there are sets of vocabulary that you can exploit. This plan looks at a few of the better known fairy tales and highlights some of the possible areas you can concentrate on in class.

Teaching teens

Find the murderer is a speaking and listening activity for teens and can be done with different levels. Students are involved in play-acting, using their imaginations, and are encouraged to practise using the past continuous tense.





Teaching adults

On 18 March, Raymond Murphy visited Russia to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first publication of English Grammar in Use. Invited by The British Council, Murphy spoke of the difficulties learners face when teachers use grammatical terminology that isn't necessary.



Development

Throughout the world English is often taught in 'low-resource' classrooms, but there are few training materials which are derived from and which reflect this reality. The materials presented here are intended to help fill this gap.


Events

IATEFL Birmingham 2016 may be over but you can still catch up with what you missed. You can watch videos from the all the plenaries, conference sessions and interviews you might have missed. You can also find the plenaries, 37 conference sessions and over 50 interviews available to watch here on IATEFL Birmingham Online, all free of charge to access.


Magazine

Our featured blog of the month award goes to Chia Suan Chong and her post 5 reasons why native speakers need to learn to speak English internationally. Do native English speakers need language training in order to communicate successfully in an international context in their own native tongue? This is the interesting question that Chia Suan Chong raises in her blog post.


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