TeachingEnglish newsletter 29 May 2019

TeachingEnglish newsletter 29 May 2019 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, which we hope you find useful. The TeachingEnglish team ELTeCS and TeachingEnglish - important changes For more than 20 years, the ELTeCS network has been an active and inspirational community for thousands of ELT professionals across the world. However, as regional, national and local communities grow, we have been reviewing our ELTeCS activity and made a decision that it is time for a change. Read more to find out about important changes to our newsletters, websites and community of practice. ELTons Award Ceremony Livestream The British Council ELTons Awards Ceremony and red carpet interviews will take place live and online (broadcast on EnglishAgenda) on Monday 10 June, 17.30-21.30 UK time. Find out this year's most innovative ways to teach and learn English from around the world. CLIL Lesson - The Atlantic Ocean Mark World Ocean Day on 08 June with this lesson plan for teachers of young learners at level A2 and above, which explores the theme of the Atlantic Ocean. This lesson is based on a running dictation using a text about the Atlantic Ocean. Learners practise all four skills in this activity and the text can be graded for difficulty according to your learners' language level and subject knowledge.  Blog of the month award for April 2019 Our featured blog of the month award for April 2019 goes to David Petrie and his post Cheating. Do your students cheat? David Petrie was shocked to find out 95% of his students do. Here he talks about why and how they do it. Our shortlisted posts this month include a game for practising present perfect and past simple, advice for teaching English as a Lingua Franca and activities to encourage collaboration among your students. Language for Resilience: World Refugee Day webinar recording Hosted by Mike Solly, Senior Adviser and global Language for Resilience lead at the British Council, this webinar provides short and varied sessions, including: Refugee Voices: experiences of access to learning opportunities; Who teaches refugees? Policy dilemmas, barriers and opportunities; an update on key findings from the Language for Resilience research hub, in an interview with Tony Capstick, Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics from the University of Reading and research hub lead.  Celebrating Traditions With globalization and technology growing ever so rapidly, individuals crossing borders and local issues becoming international ones, the need to understand cultural differences and traditions becomes an undeniable one. The same language points that coursebooks present around common topics can be practised and produced while looking at various cultural elements in lessons. Read this week's featured post for ideas on how. ‌ TeachingEnglish Training Every month we offer a 50% discount on one of our 3-hour self-access training modules. Find out which modules are half-price this month. British Council Teacher Community on Facebook Join the British Council teacher community on Facebook to share ideas, resources and learning opportunities. ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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TeachingEnglish newsletter 22 May 2019

TeachingEnglish newsletter 22 May 2019 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, which we hope you find useful. And don't forget our upcoming webinar, Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness in the Monolingual Classroom, with Dr Susan Barduhn on Thursday 23 May. The TeachingEnglish team Motivating speaking activities Primary learners aren't motivated by new language, they're motivated by an activity. It can be very difficult to get them to speak if they really don't see the point. Read this article to find out what to focus on when carrying out speaking activities, and for lots of examples of activities that your young learners will enjoy.  Music is great This lesson for teachers of older teenagers and adults at level B1 is about music and, in particular, music festivals, which have become an increasingly popular phenomenon in recent times. The lesson aims to develop speaking and listening skills and provides practice of the sub-skills of reading for gist and reading for specific detail.  Methodology, mythology and the language of education technology In this week's featured IATEFL talk, Lindsay Clandfield looks at how the way we talk about the idea of digital education has an impact on the way we do it. One of the most interesting aspects of digital education is the nature of the discourse that surrounds it. The way people often talk about the idea of digital education can have an impact on the way we do it. Last class with very young learners In this video, Winnie talks about how far the students have come in their development by the end of the school year, and we see how their language skills and confidence have improved over the course of the year. There are also interviews with the parents of the children, talking about the importance of language learning. End-of-year activities As you come to the end of your course, you may be thinking about what to do in the last few classes with each group. Here are three ideas for you to end the course on a high note: revision quiz, class magazine and performance. Find out more. Exploring content and language integrated learning (CLIL) In this five-week online course, you will be guided by our expert tutors through a series of awareness-raising activities, group discussions, live webinars and practical tasks which will help you develop your understanding of and ability to teach your subject in a second language. Find out more Join the British Council teacher community on Facebook The British Council teacher community on Facebook supports the professional development of teachers by sharing ideas, resources and learning opportunities, and, most importantly, as a community, providing a place for teachers to seek and offer each other support. ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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TeachingEnglish newsletter 15 May 2019

TeachingEnglish newsletter 15 May 2019 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, which we hope you find useful. The TeachingEnglish team Instagram during classes In this post Raquel Ribeiro shares some practical activities and examples to get you started with using Instagram - a photo sharing social network application with a growing number of users that brings a visual engagement and dynamism that appeal to young people and adults. And if you have any questions, doubts or examples of your own, why not log in and comment? Research mentoring for teacher educators In this webinar Kenan Dikilitaş and Asli Lidice Gokturk Saglam discussed the recent increased interest in teacher research engagement by English language teachers and the need for teacher research mentoring that can and should be offered to teachers. Although research could be self-initiated process, there is often need for different forms of support, knowledge and skills for doing research. To this end, they focus on the specific qualities research mentors need to have and examine various roles that they may need to take on while providing such support.  It's 12 o'clock! A speaking lesson with no materials This is a drawing and speaking activity that is fun to use with primary classes to revise the present continuous form. It is easy to set up and requires no preparation or materials, except a board and a board pen. Learners will need a piece of paper and a pencil. This version practises the present continuous form, but other versions can practise other tenses.  First steps in essay writing for primary school students It is often difficult to get young learners closer to understanding the main purpose and development of an opinion essay. An essay in pictures could become an easy starting point to help them generate ideas and produce consistent lines. The use of this material could benefit students both by connecting them with a different kind of literature and encouraging them to write their own ideas on the topic. Follow this step by step plan by Karina Castro to get your learners writing. Read more. Readlang to the rescue 'I often set digital reading tasks as homework and I know that my learners sometimes struggle with unfamiliar words. I got them to add the Readlang extension to their browsers and find translations for some of these blocking words. They’ve told me that the tool has been useful in helping them get through texts quicker and making these reading tasks less stressful.' Find out more about the Readlang web reader, and its benefits and drawbacks in promoting learner autonomy by reading this latest blog post. Dynamics of videoconferencing-mediated co-teaching This week's featured IATEFL talk presents a case study looking at the teacher interaction, use of technology and CPD generated from the videoconferencing-mediated co-teaching of refugee children in Gaza. Maricarmen Gamero considers the context constructed through the interaction between teachers; technology enacted into the classroom as a new practice; and the continuous professional development evidenced as natural learning experiences in collaborative teaching. ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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