| | | | Teaching kids
This lesson plan for primary students at any level looks at the story of Chinese New Year. Each year in the Chinese calendar is named after an animal, and in this lesson learners will listen to the story of how the order of the animals was decided. They will join in with the story and retell it, then do some follow-up work, practising saying years, using 'will' for future predictions or making a craft.
| Teaching teens
Emergency Landing is a very short story by Louise Cooper, from her collection of very short stories called Short and Scary. This kit is the third in the series for young teens. Engine problems during a flight cause the crew to look for somewhere safe to land and for passengers to wonder about what might happen when they make an emergency landing. But nothing is quite as it seems.
| Teaching adults
Eliciting (elicitation) is a term which describes a range of techniques which enable the teacher to get learners to provide information rather than giving it to them. Commonly, eliciting is used to ask learners to come up with vocabulary and language forms and rules, and to brainstorm a topic at the start of a skills lesson. The definition of the term, 'Techniques or procedures which a teacher uses to get learners to actively produce speech or writing', suggests that there may be wider applications. This article explains the benefits, and offers suggestions for the classroom.
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| | | | Development
We just have one blog topic for January and February 2018 - inclusivity. Before we move forward into 2018, it's worth looking back at some of the blogs from November and December 2017. There were a number of posts from Zahra Zuhair giving some excellent advice on teaching very low-level students. We also had some excellent contributions to the discussion on new trends in ELT from Patricia Lelmini, Richard Fielden-Watkinson, NinaMK, Larry Ferlazzo, Loli Iglesias and Alexei Kiselev.
| Events
British Council Armenia held its 5th 'Teacher Development with British Council' event from 10 to 12 November 2017, hosted by Jeremy Harmer in Armenia. For this year's event, Jeremy Harmer, the renowned and acclaimed teacher educator, writer and speaker, visited Armenia and delivered five sessions over three days to English language teachers from all the educational sectors working in Armenia as well as to visiting participants from neighbouring countries.
| Magazine
Our featured blog of the month award for November 2017 goes to Larissa Albano and her post 'Teaching For Exams? Have fun! Word Formation... Bingo!' Are you preparing learners for the Cambridge First Certificate exam? Here's a fun game from Larissa to help them - and any other learners, for that matter - with word formation. You can also find information about this month's shortlisted posts here.
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