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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.
British Council Teacher Community on Facebook
Join the British Council teacher community on Facebook to share ideas, resources and learning opportunities.

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