TeachingEnglish newsletter 06 July 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 06 July 2016 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we have a series of activities for young learners centred on the beach - perfect for those of you teaching summer schools. We also have Rachel Roberts' favourite speaking activity, a great idea which you could put aside and use for the first lesson after the holidays. For teachers of adults, we have an article by Tom Hayton, who puts forward an approach to listening he's found successful with his learners. We also have a very useful blog post for any budding materials writers, a list of recommended online tools for skills development, and a seminar recording for those of you teaching students with basic literacy needs in ESOL contexts. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Once it starts to get warm you can easily start to talk about holidays and possible destinations with your young learners, and the beach is always a popular destination. This series of activities is suitable for language assistants and teachers and perfect for summer school programs. Go to the activities Teaching teens "This is one of my favourite speaking activities because a) it's really flexible and can be done with any level and at any stage of the course (though it works particularly well for a first lesson or a cover lesson), b) it takes very little or even no preparation if you're good at thinking on your feet, and c) students always enjoy it." Read Rachael Roberts' blog post - A favourite speaking activity. Read more Teaching adults Adult learners often complain that (sometimes) after years of study, they can't understand native speakers. This is partly because they do not receive adequate exposure to authentic texts in class or because it's hard to find authentic audio texts that can be easily adapted for classroom use. To tackle these issues, Tom Hayton developed an approach to listening based loosely on the way children learn languages and found it to be successful. Read more Development Most materials writers start their careers as teachers, and lots of authors have their first experience of developing materials when they create things for their own classes. Read Katherine Bilsborough's blog post - From teacher to materials writer - to learn more about developing in this direction. Go to the blog post Events ESOL learners with basic literacy needs - where do I start? Judy Kirsh explores some of the different approaches involved in teaching basic literacy to ESOL learners who have no, or very little, literacy in English or any other language. She begins with a brief overview of possible approaches and theories of literacy learning, followed by a closer examination of the 'language experience' approach.  Watch a recording of this seminar Magazine Read Larry Ferlazzo's blog post - Online tools - to find out his 'best of the best' list of recommendations. Learn more about which tools he finds useful to develop reading, listening, speaking and online writing skills, and try some out yourself.  Go to the blog post 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.

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