E V O L V E S C H O O L: TeachingEnglish newsletter 24 October 2018

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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.