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TeachingEnglish newsletter 29 March 2017

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29 March 2017

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter
This week we have more news on how you can join the 2017 IATEFL Conference in Glasgow, even if you can't attend. And if you are attending, then we warmly invite you to our special event to celebrate the launch of Teaching for Success.

For the classroom this week, we have a fun-packed lesson for kids based on the popular song 'What can it be?'. For teachers of teens, we have an integrated skills lesson on the theme of tattoos. And for adults, why not try DARTs - activities which help students to interact with texts?

Finally, our featured blog post this week is on a theme that many teachers will find useful - 'Giving learners feedback on their writing'.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team
Teaching kids

In this lesson learners will be introduced to the popular song 'What can it be?' They will listen to the song, complete comprehension activities, and practise the animals, mythical creatures and body parts mentioned in the song. They will also practise the 'has got' and possessive 's structures as well as sing the song. Finally learners can do some extension work based on the song, inventing, writing and singing about their own mythical creature.

Teaching teens

In this lesson for teens at B1 / B2 level, students will talk about their attitudes towards tattoos, read a text about the growing popularity of tattooing in the UK, design a tattoo for somebody and take part in a role play about a tattoo dilemma.


Teaching adults

Directed activities related to texts (DARTs) are activities which get students to interact with texts. Their aim is to improve students' reading comprehension and to make them critical readers. These DARTs are based on the poem "When I heard the learned astronomer" by Walt Whitman, and include a range of reconstruction and analysis activities.


Development

If you are attending the IATEFL Conference in Glasgow, we invite you to attend a special event, our Teaching for Success launch. The event will take place at 13.15, Tuesday 4 April at stand 46 in the Exhibition Hall. Join us at this pop-up celebratory event where you can evaluate your CPD needs and collect your
discount voucher for one of our 60 new self-study modules for teachers. 






Events

If you can't attend the 2017 IATEFL Conference in Glasgow, tune in for live coverage starting Monday 3rd April. The British Council is providing online coverage of live plenary sessions, interviews and over 50 conference sessions starting each day from 9.00 am (UK time). IATEFL Online provides teacher audiences worldwide with an opportunity to share ideas with colleagues before, during and after the conference, so don't miss out, join us for IATEFL Online!

Magazine

'Giving learners feedback on their writing' is our latest blog post by Loli Iglesias on strategies that help teachers to make their writing feedback useful and not too time-consuming. To find out how she and the other teachers who worked on a new approach fostered students' motivation and changed their attitude towards writing, take a look at Loli's blog. 



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