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The TeachingEnglish team | | Developing cross-cultural awareness in the monolingual classroom | Language learning for life as responsible citizens of the international community must include cultural awareness. As Albert Einstein put it, 'The world we have created is a product of our ways of thinking. It cannot be changed until we change those ways of thinking.' Before we can understand other cultures, though, we need to understand our own first. Join us on 23 May at 5 p.m. UK time for a one-hour webinar on cross-cultural awareness with Dr Susan Barduhn. | | | Encourage your primary learners to create acrostic poems on the theme of nature with this short lesson plan. In this activity, learners look at an example acrostic poem and identify its features. As a class, they build another poem together by following simple stages, then they go through the same stages independently in order to create their own poem. Finally, they share their poems with the other learners and try to guess the topic of each other’s poems. | | | Creating a positive learning environment | This free module is 'Creating a positive learning environment' and supports the professional practice 'Managing the lesson'. The aim of this module is to support teachers to explore an element of managing the lesson by examining practical ways to ensure a positive classroom environment to benefit both teachers and learners. Discover strategies for creating a positive learning environment with this self-access development resource. | | | Blog topics for May and June 2019 | As we move towards summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere, our latest topics take a look at different festivals, developing learner strategies, the benefits of observation and using digital tools. See the latest blog topics for May/June 2019 and a review of some of the best posts from the past two months. | | | In this lesson for teens at B1–B2 level, students practise reading, speaking and writing. First, they read about the Movember charity, then discuss issues related to charities and health, and finally join an ‘imaginary’ online chat group to organise their own charity event. | | | Under one roof: considerations on integrating content and language | Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) describes an approach to teaching non-linguistic subjects, like physics or history, through an additional language. Since the term was coined in the mid 1990s, it has been gaining popularity, mainly in Europe but also elsewhere. Thus, it is time to review CLIL and see what it has to offer. This week's featured plenary talk from IATEFL Liverpool by Aleksandra Zaparucha reviews the CLIL approach and considers ten characteristics of it and how they can be applied. | | | | | | | |
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