Welcome to this week's TeachingEnglish newsletter. We've selected a range of practical resources to help you in the classroom and ideas to help you with your professional development. We hope you find them useful.
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Blog topics for July and August 2018
Our blog topics for July and August2018 look at the theme of managing resources. Questions to think and blog about include: Do world events have a place in the ELT classroom, especially with younger learners? What ICT tools or resources do you currently use in your classrooms and why? Is a coursebook-driven, systematic grammar syllabus the best way to learn a language? And if you're not a TeachingEnglish blogger yet, find out how you can start here.
A questioning activity
Textbook comprehension questions are not always interesting or challenging; they typically engage only lower-order thinking skills and seldom motivate learners. They also encourage teacher-dependence to the detriment of learner autonomy. Read about an activity to penetrate more deeply into a text and to engage learners in an altogether different way.
Various ways of starting an English lesson
Most teachers and teacher trainers tend to start their lessons casually and routinely, but a few of them like me start them by cracking a joke and the like. As a teacher and a trainer, Jvl Narasimha Rao usually starts his lessons in ways which help the students to lend their ears (to the teacher) to him. Read some of his suggestions for starting the lesson in his latest post.
Vocabulary box
Do you have a vocabulary box in your classroom? Vocabulary boxes are fantastic and they take so little time but provide so many activities. All you need is a small box, e.g. a shoe box, and small blank cards or pieces of paper. Find out more about when and how you can use a vocabulary box to help your young learners remember, review and practise vocabulary.
Visiting Time
When journalist Emma Brockes went to get material for a story about a man whose son had been murdered, little did she realise that it would result in the publication of a stunning short story called Visiting Time. It is a story about revenge and accounting for actions, and has a twist that is both factual and literary. This BritiLit kit provides you with all the downloads and audio files you need to exploit this short story with your teens.
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