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TeachingEnglish newsletter 27 July 2016

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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.

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. 



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.


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.


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?


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.



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