E V O L V E S C H O O L: TeachingEnglish newsletter 28 June 2017

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28 June 2017

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter

This week we are pleased to announce the winners of the 15th British Council ELTons Innovations Awards, which were held on 14 June in London.

For the classroom we feature a special set of resources from Bloomsbury for kids who love Harry Potter. We also have two integrated skills lessons suitable for teens and adults on the themes of school holidays, and success and fame.

And for those of you who are looking for professional development opportunities, take a look at our free course 'Teaching for Success: the Classroom and the World'.

And finally, our featured blog post this week takes a look at lessons learned from assessing creative projects.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb

TeachingEnglish team


Teaching kids Do your learners love Harry Potter? Monday 26 June 2017 marked 20 years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was first published. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has sold over 450 million copies and inspired children around the world in 79 countries. Why not mark the 20th anniversary of its publication? Bloomsbury have developed a special Harry Potter Anniversary Party Pack, full of exciting activities to help you and your learners enjoy the anniversary. Find out more	Teaching teens This is a lesson that can be used as you near the end of term and everyone is looking forward to a long break from school. Students will look back at the academic year that is ending, brainstorm vocabulary connected to holidays and do a class survey. They will also look at holiday jobs and read about holiday trends in the UK. Finally, students will plan their ideal school holiday in groups. Go to the lesson plan	Teaching adults This lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at intermediate level explores the theme of success and fame and helps to develop students' speaking skills and fluency. Planning a series of different activities on a single theme helps move a class from short, idea-building conversations to more involved discussion or debate in which they have more freedom to express themselves and build their spoken confidence. It also helps break the topic down into more manageable sections. Go to the lesson plan


Development 'Teaching for Success: the Classroom and the World' is one of our free English language teaching professional development courses, which explores the topics: Promoting 21st-century skills; Integrating ICT; Understanding educational policies and practice; and Using multilingual approaches. Register now to express your interest. Find out more	Events The English language teaching sector recently received the red carpet treatment at its annual gala, the ELTons Innovation Awards ceremony. Among the range of products and ideas that won awards were promoting sustainable development, peace, harnessing technology, online language analysis and talking pens. Find out who won a British Council ELTon award for innovation in English language teaching products and services this year. Read more	Magazine Have you ever been given a project to assess but couldn't? Have you ever created a rubric to assess the unassessable? Read Fatima Taha's reflection on her experience of assessing a project that relied heavily on creativity, and what lessons she learned from it, in her latest blog post 'The creativity I regretted!' Read more

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