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The TeachingEnglish team | | This new lesson for older teenagers and adults at CEF level B1 and above looks at strategies for identifying fake news and fake websites. The lesson begins with a brief discussion about news and fake news. Students then skim read two webpages. One website is about the Tree Octopus (a spoof), while the other is about the Octopus Tree. After a brief reading comprehension activity, students study the websites, using a set of questions to help them. The goal is to discover which one is the fake website and why it’s fake! | | | Three ways to end the school year strong | Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist and economist, suggests that we tend to make future decisions based on the 'peak-end rule' – that we remember how particular events and time periods end, and that our 'remembering selves' focus on the best moments among them. Given this research, it’s particularly important for us teachers to be strategic about how we end the school year with our students. In this blog post, Larry Ferlazzo describes three ways he tries to increase the odds of his students feeling energised about the final month of school. | | | This new short lesson plan is intended to provide a supplementary activity for primary learners who have been working on the topic of countries. Learners think about some of the features of their own country, then work together in groups to brainstorm ideas for a new country. Then they work in new groups to plan and produce a poster for their new country and use it to present their country to the class. | | | Investigating the applicability of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for self-assessment in tertiary writing instruction in China: accessibility, effectiveness, feasibility and usefulness | The current project investigated the accessibility, feasibility, effectiveness and usefulness of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and its companion European Language Portfolio (ELP) descriptors for tertiary English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing instruction in China and explored how they could be used to bridge teaching, learning and assessment. This publication is free to download in PDF format. | | | An activity I use again and again – Rachael Roberts | This is an activity which works at pretty much any level from pre-intermediate upwards. It works with classes you know well and with classes you’ve only just met. In fact, it is very useful if you have to do a last-minute cover with no time to prepare anything. The first stage is to tell students an anecdote from your life. Tell the students that the story may be true, partly true or completely false, and their job is to listen and decide which it is and which bits are true or false. Students then work with the structure of the narrative and work on their own anecdotes. Read more about how to use this activity with your learners. | | | TeachingEnglish training Every month we offer a 50% discount on one of our three-hour self-access training modules. | | British Council teacher community on Facebook | | | | | | | |
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