TeachingEnglish newsletter | | | 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 | | 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. | | | 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). | | | 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. | | British Council teacher community on Facebook | | | | | | | |
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