TeachingEnglish newsletter 30 October 2019

TeachingEnglish newsletter 30 October 2019 Welcome to the latest 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 to register for our upcoming webinar – What makes a good remote teacher? – Thursday 7 November at 16.00 UK time. The TeachingEnglish team Anti-bullying Here are two lessons that can be used during Anti-Bullying Week, Monday 11 November to Friday 15 November 2019. This one is for secondary learners at level B1 and above. Students will learn about the problem of bullies and how to behave if you are a bystander. This lesson is for primary learners aged 9 to 10 years old at level A2. Students will make an anti-bullying poster and give a presentation of the story. Featured blog of the month for September 2019 Our featured blog of the month award for September 2019 goes to Rajesh Kouluri and his post '3 Writing Tasks to help learners write better, more understandable English'. Our two shortlisted posts feature tips for the academic year (Gianfranco Conti) and a writing/speaking activity (Onthesamepage ELT). Read more. ELT teachers' stories of resilience This freely downloadable collection of stories comes from six early career teachers, three in Brazil and three in the United Kingdom. To understand how ELT teachers exercise their resilience, the researchers had four recorded conversations with each participant during a year. The field texts also include visual narratives (four drawings per participant, consisting of self-portraits and images of resilient teachers), and their recorded explanations provided at the end of each conversation. Bonfire Night – 5 November This lesson is aimed at lower-level students, with a variety of activities related to Bonfire Night – 5 November. Students will do a jigsaw reading to complete a text about Bonfire Night and discuss their opinions, design a Bonfire Night menu, learn a popular Bonfire Night rhyme and focus on pronunciation, and finally work in groups to produce a firework-safety poster. English in Early Childhood: Language Learning and Development This free online course for parents and practitioners will explore how young children learn English and investigate many more aspects of early childhood learning and development. Discover how very young children learn English as an additional language and how you can help them progress. Find out more.  Active microlearning for our grammar lessons Microlearning is the idea of dividing learning into small pieces. This idea could be very useful when too much information, all at once, is difficult to digest: splitting large chunks of information into smaller, bite-sized pieces can be more easily processed. Read more about the concept of active microlearning as a way of improving the grammar comprehension of your students. Develop your learners' skills through interactive video The English Channel is a British Council website which presents interactive videos to help your learners learn English and build career skills. They can watch interesting videos, answer questions and earn badges for their achievements. They just need to register to get started. Find out more. ‌ TeachingEnglish training Every month we offer a 50% discount on one of our three-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 16 October 2019

TeachingEnglish newsletter 16 October 2019 Welcome to the latest 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 if you missed this year's World Teachers' Day web conference, you can find recordings of all the talks here. The TeachingEnglish team My healthy lunch This new lesson for younger primary students aged 6–8 years old celebrates healthy food and can be used to raise awareness of World Food Day on 16 October, or any other time. Children draw a lunch setting and then play a dice game to decide what to eat from a selection of foods, which include many healthy choices. ELTons 2020 Now in their 18th year, the ELTons celebrate the most original courses, publications, projects, apps and platforms, and more, that are finding new ways to help English language learners and teachers around the world achieve their goals. Applications are open until Friday 8 November 2019, midnight (UK time). Read more. IATEFL YLTSIG Annual Web Conference This three-day event, 25–27 October 2019 – Opening the ‘YL’ Umbrella: Age-appropriate Pedagogies in ELT – features nine plenaries, two panel discussions, an interactive Q&A session and 15 highly creative talks focused on early years, primary, lower and upper secondary ELT. Find out more about the digital programme and register here. What not to say to someone who stammers This lesson for adults and older teenage learners has been devised to mark International Stammering/Stuttering Awareness Day on 22 October. Students read a text, have a discussion and then go on to focus on some different grammatical structures to express preference and sometimes annoyance. What makes a good remote teacher? Remote language teaching is the practice of teaching a language live online through videoconferencing. In this webinar on Thursday 7 November at 16.00 UK time, Gabriela Kaplan and Graham Stanley will share what makes a good remote teacher and some findings supported by the publication Remote Language Teaching (British Council, 2018). Halloween ideas In this lesson for primary learners, students will practise Halloween vocabulary and sing a song or watch a story. Then they can invent an animal skeleton, write a spooky story, play a Halloween game, invent a magic potion, make a paper skeleton, read some jokes or try a tongue twister – you choose! Contextual grammar teaching – activities for making grammar meaningful to your students How do we develop a learning environment where the grammar is learned through exploration without burnout? Read Milica Vukadin's blog post for examples of thematic contextual grammar activities that develop the four language skills simultaneously. ‌ TeachingEnglish training Every month we offer a 50% discount on one of our three-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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