TeachingEnglish newsletter 12 October 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 12 October 2016 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we bring you a brand new lesson plan for kids - My ideal teacher. We also have another lesson from the series Rants and Raves, this week on the topic of returning goods to a shop. Have you checked out our badge builders for teens yet? If not, take a look at our stylish designs for awards for good work to help motivate your students. We also feature a blog post which describes a low-prep, effective reading lesson format which you can use with any text or level, and remind you that The 6th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language is fast approaching. And finally, a big thank you to everyone who participated in our first online conference last week. The event was a huge success and don't worry if you weren't able to join us - you can watch recordings of all the talks online! We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Our latest lesson plan for primary learners helps them think about the ideal teacher. Learners do a series of simple and supported vocabulary and grammar activities which lead to them writing about their ideal teacher. At the end of the lesson they draw pictures of their ideal teacher and they make a classroom display of their texts and pictures.  Go to the lesson plan Teaching teens Motivate your teenage learners with our badge builders. Encourage them to earn skills and behaviour badges with our four stylish designs. Once your students have chosen their blank badge builder from one of our four great designs, you can award them with 'badges' for good work in different categories at the end of a class or activity, and below each badge is a space for the student to write a short sentence to explain what the badge was awarded for. Find out more Teaching adults 'Rants and Raves - Returning goods to a shop' is an activity which provides short listening practice based around a conversation between a customer and sales person. Students listen and then make their own similar dialogues. There are also suggestions for developing the theme of shopping to practise specific areas of grammar. Go to the activity Development The Teaching for Success Online Conference, which took place between 5 and 9 October, has now finished but you can still watch recordings of over 60 talks online. Simply choose a day, click on a talk you're interested in and click on the link to the recorded talk at the top of the page.  Choose which recordings to watch Events The 6th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language will take place at Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal, 18 - 19 November, 2016. The issues to be discussed at the TEFL 6 conference consider the classroom context with learners in compulsory schooling in relation to communication, culture and creativity. Find out more Magazine If you're looking for an easy-to-use reading lesson format which you can use with any text or level of learner, then check out James Taylor's blog post - A Low Prep, Always Effective Reading Lesson. Read about how to engage your students with texts, giving them a sense of autonomy, and how to encourage them to investigate the language they are interested in. 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.

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