| | | | Teaching kids
In this activity, 'My English telephone', students make their own 'English' telephones and try them out. The class discusses how to make the phone and what materials are needed. The teacher elicits the necessary language to make and use the phones. Despite the low-tech aspect of the telephones, the students love the fact that you can actually hear through the phone, so playing with the phone motivates them to make one.
| Teaching teens
This lesson offers a variety of activities based on child maths prodigies. First, there is a warm-up activity that reviews the names of school subjects and introduces the topic of education. Then the students prepare questions to ask the teacher about their education and life. There are two reading texts about two well-known maths prodigies, which students will read and compare, and then check comprehension by completing timelines.
| Teaching adults
This lesson plan, 'Living in the UK', is for teachers of teenage and adult students at B1 level and above. Students will develop the ability to read and assimilate information from various sources and guess the meaning of words from the context. There is an optional extension in the form of a role play, in which groups of learners compete to persuade a professional couple to move to 'their' UK country.
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| | | | Development
Our blog topic for January and February is inclusivity. As teachers, we certainly have an inclination to help create a positive and inclusive atmosphere. But how often do teachers receive training on creating a positive and inclusive environment in the classroom, and what techniques can we learn and incorporate to ensure this is what we are creating? Our latest blog post, 'Inclusivity in learning', looks at some practical ways to help you increase inclusivity in your learning spaces.
| Events
In January 2015, the British Council's first symposium on employability, skills and opportunities for young people in MENA was launched in collaboration with the League of Arab States as a response to growing unemployment levels in MENA. This report shows that it is not only English but multilingualism that improves young people's employability and allows societies to prosper. The second important find is that many public English language support programmes in MENA are not achieving the desired improvement in English language attainment levels because they lack a holistic approach.
| Magazine
This collection of reports outlines the context for English language training, teaching and learning across the countries of the Maghreb - Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. The report and four country profiles are of interest to the UK ELT sector, educational practitioners in general and STEM specialists with an interest in working in, or with, the Maghreb countries. In addition to the country profiles, the 'English and soft skills in the Maghreb' report is available in French and in English.
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