TeachingEnglish newsletter 31 October 2018

TeachingEnglish newsletter 31 October 2018 Welcome to the 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 Language learning and social cohesion in a multicultural classroom with vulnerable learners This post by Mohammed Ateek seeks to answer questions related to the correlation between language learning and social cohesion in the context of a multicultural/multilingual classroom with more focus on refugee and recent migrant learners. Creating language classrooms as safe spaces and the learning approaches/activities to do so are also discussed. Writing stories for ELT Primary On 9 November, we are hosting two webinars on the theme of writing and using stories in the ELT primary classroom. Join us at 12.00 p.m. UK time for a one-hour talk by Cheryl Palin and Katherine Bilsborough on writing stories. Cheryl and Kath will share their experience and provide practical tips for creating concepts with staying power, avoiding pitfalls and breathing life into tired themes. Bonfire Night This integrated skills lesson is aimed at students aged 10-15 at A2/B1 level. Following a jigsaw reading and discussion, they design a Bonfire Night menu, learn a popular rhyme and focus on pronunciation, and produce a firework safety poster. Read more and download the lesson plan. Migrants and Refugees in Education: A toolkit for teachers Learn how to teach and support young people across the globe affected by violence, conflict or displacement with this new course. You'll hear from experienced teachers talking about the challenges, what they learned and strategies they have used when teaching migrant and refugee learners both in countries affected by conflict and in host countries. Register for this free MOOC. My new house During the school year, children can move house and change schools for various reasons. When they arrive in a new school, it can be hard for them to adapt to their new classmates and for the classmates to accept a new class member. Learning a topic about moving house and changing schools will help your learners to see that it's important to accept new people and that it can be hard but exciting for those who move. See the lesson plan. ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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TeachingEnglish newsletter 24 October 2018

TeachingEnglish newsletter 24 October 2018 Welcome to the 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 What not to say to someone who stammers This lesson for adults and older teenagers provides useful practice for the Cambridge First Certificate exam. It was devised to mark International Stammering/Stuttering Awareness Day on 22 October 2018. However, as this is not specifically mentioned, it could be used at any time of year. Students read a short text, engage in some discussion about the topic and then focus on some different grammatical structures to express preference and sometimes annoyance: would rather/sooner, would prefer, wish. Featured blog of the month for September 2018 Our featured blog of the month award for September 2018 goes to English Teaching 101 and their post, 'How to Use Kahoot as a Teacher'. In this informative post, Teaching 101 offers a user-friendly guide on how to use Kahoot in your classes. Shortlisted posts include ELT-Cation | PLAY & LEARN and Leo Selivan | Four 'back-to-school' activities. Halloween With Halloween just around the corner, why not take a look at our classroom resources for younger learners and teenagers? Our lesson plan for teenagers focuses on superstition and develops a range of skills. For your younger learners, we have two lesson plans: one that includes singing songs and making Halloween decorations, and another where students watch a story, invent an animal skeleton, write a spooky story, play a Halloween game, or invent a magic potion. Blogging is a two-way street What should I write about? is a perennial question that all ELT bloggers grapple with, especially new bloggers who might prematurely abandon blogs begun with a lot of enthusiasm for a perceived lack of ideas. In this post, Adi Rajan suggests a number of ways in which reading blog posts can help you write your own.  English Teaching in Early Years: Research in Peru In 2017, the British Council, together with Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE) from the United Kingdom, investigated the possibility of a nationwide early English initiative in initial education in Peru. This report provides an overview of the findings and makes recommendations regarding possible approaches and teacher profiles. The report is free to download and both English and Spanish versions are available. ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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TeachingEnglish newsletter 17 October 2018

TeachingEnglish newsletter 17 October 2018 Welcome to the 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 English in Early Childhood: Language Learning and Development Join our free, six-week English in Early Childhood: Language Learning and Development course starting Monday 22 October. This excellent course for parents and practitioners will explore how young children learn English and will investigate many more aspects of early childhood learning and development. Discover how very young children learn English as an additional language and how you can help them progress. Kids' star charts Have you used our great range of colourful star charts in your primary classroom? Each star chart design lets you add as many students as you want, or you can use different designs for separate groups of students. You can add as many spaces as you want as your students receive more stars throughout the year or term. Each design also comes with an A4 sheet of stars to cut out and stick onto the chart. Kaleidescope – Belfast Kaleidescope is a project for teenage and adult learners that mixes video and original pieces of writing from well-known authors in three capital cities – Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. Each pack includes teachers' notes with a suggested procedure, and classroom worksheets for students, including pre-viewing and follow-up tasks. To mark the Belfast International Arts Festival this month, this pack includes an original piece of writing by Eunice Yeates called 'Belfast'.  Professional development for freelance online teachers The job market has been undergoing significant changes over the past decade due to the rise of new technologies, and teaching jobs are no exception. We can see new opportunities for teachers, as well as new sorts of problems. A good example of such dualism is a job that is now a huge part of the education market – teaching English online. Read Alexei Kiselev's post on how to remain competitive in this quickly changing market. From ELT to TLE: taking learning beyond the classroom In this webinar, Keith Harding looks at ways of making the most of the learning opportunities that lie beyond the classroom. Keith discusses ways of incorporating concepts such as online learning, blended learning and the flipped classroom, but also more established ELT orthodoxies. In this talk, he offers a new approach and methodology: the 'Total Learning Experience' (TLE). Learn more and watch a recording. ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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