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TeachingEnglish newsletter 19 October 2016

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19 October 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!
This week we announce the winner of September's blog of the month award - Veronika Palovska's 'How to use blogs to help your students achieve fluency'.

For the classroom we have a lesson for kids on the topic of 'seasons', a process writing lesson for teens, and another lesson for adults from the series Rants and Raves on the topic of reality TV.

Our featured recorded talk from our recent online conference this week is Ian Clifford's 'Towards evidence and skills-based teacher development'.

And finally, we are seeking your input on ideas for a new series of video tips for the website. Please take a couple of minutes to complete our survey and tell us what you think.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

In this lesson, students will look at different features of the seasons. They will listen to and sing a song, and watch a story about the changing seasons. They will think about words and ideas connected to the different seasons, and then work together to produce a poster. Finally students can complete a craft activity or play a game.



Teaching teens

This lesson for teens at level B1/B2 uses the School discipline resource from the 'UK Now' section of the
LearnEnglish Teens website. The lesson is a process writing lesson, which gives learners a lot of support as they write, and follows a typical process writing procedure of four stages.

Teaching adults

This activity from our 'Rants and Raves' series provides short listening practice based around a monologue regarding reality TV in the UK. In this lesson, students will listen to a monologue about a persons reflection of reality TV. They will put the monologue in order and answer comprehension questions. There 
are also suggestions for developing the theme of reality TV to practise specific areas of grammar.

Development

TeachingEnglish is currently developing a series of video tips made by English teachers for English teachers. We would like your input to let us know which teaching issues you would most like to get some advice on, from grammar and vocabulary to teaching different skills, classroom management and activities. Please take a couple of minutes to complete our survey and tell us what you think.


Events

This week's featured talk from the Teaching for Success online conference is Ian Clifford's talk - Towards evidence and skills-based teacher development. Ian looks at some of the evidence for what teaching strategies are most effective, using video to demonstrate simple, effective strategies that can be used globally, including in the global south where there is a tradition of teachers being an authoritative figure using whole-class teaching with large classes.


Magazine

Our featured blog of the month award for September 2016 goes to Veronika Palovska and her post 'How to use blogs to help your students achieve fluency'. In this excellent post, Veronika shares her thoughts on how reading blogs can help students improve their fluency. This month's shortlist includes ideas on ending the lesson, a video-based lesson plan, tips on becoming an online teacher, a lesson plan about time management for advanced level students and strategies for planning a grammar lesson.


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