TeachingEnglish newsletter 27 July 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 27 July 2016 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we have two NEW activities for teachers of teenage and adult students - Ask Answer Add, a speaking activity requiring no resources, and Hotel Booking, a listening and role-play lesson. For kids, take a look at our 'Playground' lesson. We also feature a blog post which describes how one teacher successfully uses Project-Based Learning to raise her student's awareness of their own ability to promote their learning, and an informative talk by Richard Smith - 'A short history of ELT'. If you are looking to enhance your career prospects next academic year, why not take a look at our online MA in ELT which starts late September? And finally, the TeachingEnglish newsletter will be taking a break in August, but you will receive a SPECIAL newsletter next week giving you lots of information about the first TeachingEnglish Online Conference. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids In this lesson, students will learn some vocabulary for playground equipment and practise talking about doing activities in the playground. They will then listen to a song or watch a story about playing in the playground. They can produce a story about a dog's adventure, carry out a class survey about what students like doing in the playground, then design their own playground. Go to the lesson plan Teaching teens 'Ask Answer Add' is a great speaking activity which requires no resources and will help your learners build the skills they need to maintain a conversation. It is a simple activity which requires no resources, is suitable for any level of learner, and will help your students learn the invaluable skill of maintaining a conversation.  Read more about this activity Teaching adults This activity provides short listening practice based around a phone call to a hotel to enquire about reservations. Students will predict vocabulary, listen to the phone conversation and role-play the dialogue to practise their speaking skills. There are also suggestions for developing the theme of hotels to practise specific areas of grammar. Read more about this activity Development Enhance your career prospects with the world's English experts and open up a world of opportunities with an internationally recognised post-graduate qualification in English language teaching from the UK. The MA in ELT has been developed by the British Council in collaboration with Southampton University and is completely online, offering you an affordable and convenient way to study. Start date: 29 September. Find out more Events This talk by Dr Richard Smith provides a fast-paced, informative chronology of ELT developments which counteracts some common myths and raises issues for critical reflection. Some of the questions considered are: How can ELT be defined? When did it begin? What predated it? What people, institutions, ideas and practices have made up ELT? What has changed, and what has not changed in ELT methodology? Watch a recording of this talk Magazine With or without technology, raising student's awareness of their own ability to promote their learning is never a difficult job. There are many approaches that reverse the students' and the teacher's roles inside the classroom, one of which is the Project-Based Learning approach. Read Fatima Taha's blog post - 'To Tech or not to Tech is NOT the question' to find out more about how she successfully used PBL with her students. Read more 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.

British Council, British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, SW1A 2BN United Kingdom SafeUnsubscribe™ evolve.school@gmail.com Forward this email | Update Profile | About our service provider Sent by teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org in collaboration with Try it free today

TeachingEnglish newsletter 20 July 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 20 July 2016 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! For the classroom this week we have a special NEW lesson plan for teens and adults to raise awareness of World Day against Trafficking in Persons. We also have a lesson plus animated video for kids on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and a speaking lesson for teens and adults which encourages them to talk about their future lives. Our four NEW blog topics for July and August are on the theme of 'managing the lesson' and we look forward to some interesting posts and comments on this topic. For those looking for development opportunities, our popular TKT course is now open for registration (in addition to Primary and CLIL Essentials). And finally, we feature a very informative and engaging seminar by Sally Farley on inclusive learning. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of a series of lesson plans to accompany the short animated videos of six of Shakespeare's plays on LearnEnglish Kids. They will complete comprehension activities, think about the ideas of 'dreams' and 'magic' and develop their creative writing skills. Go to the lesson plan Teaching teens This lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at level B1 explores the theme of the future. Students will speak freely about different aspects of their future life while the teacher guides them (with the students' help) to the best available grammar forms in order to do so.  Go to the lesson plan Teaching adults Our latest lesson plan for older teenagers and adults at level B1 and above aims to raise awareness of World Day against Trafficking in Persons. The lesson involves plenty of speaking, a vocabulary focus, which pre-teaches topic related vocabulary later found in the text, a jigsaw reading and a focus on passives. Go to the lesson plan Development Whether you are training to be a teacher, just starting out in your career or have been teaching for several years, TKT Essentials is a moderated course that gives you the knowledge you need to prepare for the Cambridge ESOL TKT test and gain valuable knowledge about communicative language teaching. Start date: 22 September - apply by 15 September. Duration: 15 weeks. Find out more Events As an experienced counsellor, a special needs support tutor at The University of Kent and also a teacher trainer specialising in creative methodology, it is from an incredibly well-informed perspective that Sally Farley talks on the issue of increasing the presence, participation and achievement of all learners. Watch a recording of her seminar on inclusive learning. Find out more Magazine Thanks to all those who wrote blog posts in May and June - over 65,000 people read your posts last month! Our four new blog topics for July and August 2016 look at the theme of 'managing the lesson' and ask you to think about some of the approaches you use when teaching, giving feedback, challenging students and thinking about effective classroom management.  Find out more 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.

British Council, British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, SW1A 2BN United Kingdom SafeUnsubscribe™ evolve.school@gmail.com Forward this email | Update Profile | About our service provider Sent by teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org in collaboration with Try it free today

TeachingEnglish newsletter 13 July 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 13 July 2016 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we invite you to a webinar on mobile pedagogy for English language teaching by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and Lucy Norris. We also include the related research publication 'Mobile pedagogy for English language teaching: a guide for teachers', which is free to download. For the classroom we have a reading task and roleplay plus an article on helping students to prepare and deliver presentations, both of which could be used with teenagers or adults. For kids, we have a passport portfolio lesson to raise children's awareness of learning and practising English in their own world. And finally, our popular Primary Essentials course is now open for enrolment. The course starts on 18 August and is an ideal introduction to teaching English to young learners. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Working with passports is a portfolio activity which opens their eyes to the possibilities for learning and practising English in their own world. It also means becoming aware of children in their own class who have had different language-learning experiences. This lesson comes with downloadable passports and worksheets for the children to fill in. Go to the lesson plan Teaching teens In this article Tom Hayton gives a few tips and some advice on what he's learned from helping students prepare and deliver presentations. The article addresses why presentations are useful, how to plan effectively, classroom management and a practical approach to assessment. Read more Teaching adults This activity challenges students' reading skills at intermediate level and gives them controlled speaking practice in a role play. The learners have to put a jumbled conversation into the correct order and can then act it out in pairs. The conversation takes place in a Travel Agent's. Go to the read and roleplay activity Development Primary Essentials provides teachers with an introduction to teaching English to young learners aged 7 to 11. Using video, audio and community elements, you will learn the essentials to help you succeed in your teaching of young learners. Start date: 18 August - apply by 08 August. Duration: 12 weeks. Find out more Events Join this month's webinar on EnglishAgenda - Mobile pedagogy for English language teaching: putting teacher wisdom at the heart of mobile learning - when Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and Lucy Norris will describe an approach to mobile pedagogy for English language teaching. The webinar, which takes place on Tuesday 19 June at 16.00 UK time, explores the ways in which teachers can be guided by this framework to design language learning tasks to engage learners both in, and beyond the classroom.  Find out more Magazine Mobile pedagogy for English language teaching: a guide for teachers is a new publication by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Lucy Norris and Jim Donohue. The guide proposes a frame of reference to aid teacher-thinking when designing mobile language learning in and beyond the classroom, informed by research conducted with teachers and learners in ESOL and EAP contexts. Read more 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.

British Council, British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, SW1A 2BN United Kingdom SafeUnsubscribe™ evolve.school@gmail.com Forward this email | Update Profile | About our service provider Sent by teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org in collaboration with Try it free today