E V O L V E S C H O O L: TeachingEnglish newsletter 18 July 2018

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TeachingEnglish newsletter 18 July 2018

TeachingEnglish newsletter

18 July 2018

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.

The TeachingEnglish team

Spirit of adventure

This lesson for teenage learners and adults consists of a main text describing a 'gap year' and why people might take one. It explores attitudes towards personal freedom and adventure and looks briefly at the spirit of adventure of British explorers and young people in Britain today. The material integrates reading, speaking and vocabulary, and students will give their opinions about adventure and taking time out to travel.

Sport

In this lesson, young learners will review vocabulary for sports and extend it with the clothes and equipment needed to play various sports, then make a poster about a sport. Then they will watch a story about an extreme sport adventure camp, learn vocabulary for extreme sports, practise the 'would like to' structure and survey their classmates. Finally, they will either watch a story about a school sports day and design a sport or they will watch a football-related story and write about their favourite football team.

Syllabus and the textbook for a subject

'As a teacher and trainer I try to uncover the syllabus rather than cover it. If time permits, I always go beyond the text.' Read Jvl Narasimha Rao's latest blog post to find out more about how he tries to 'uncover' the syllabus in a given period of time.

Selecting and adapting learning resources for teachers: Case studies

In the article 'Selecting and adapting learning resources for teachers: Ensuring relevance to context' specific steps were outlined to ensure you select learning resources that are relevant to the context. Analysing the data you gather from those steps will help you to identify potential learning resources. This second article examines two teacher education scenarios, and suggested learning resources for each.

Teaching speaking

Teaching speaking is a series of videos and interactive exercises to help you develop your students' speaking skills. Each of the eight units contains a short video, interactive reflection activities and PDFs with additional activities, answer key and further opportunities for reflection. If you are a teacher trainer and are planning to use the material in a face-to-face context, there is a set of trainer notes for each topic.