TeachingEnglish newsletter | | | Welcome to this December edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter - the final one of 2019!
To round off the year, we have lots of seasonal activity ideas, a NEW lesson plan to celebrate World Monkey Day, news of two webinars and two great blog posts.
We hope you find these useful, and we will be back in 2020 with lots of new resources, events and ideas for your classrooms and professional development.
Wishing you all a very peaceful and happy festive season.
The TeachingEnglish team | | Observation and feedback: why is it so important to do it well? | For many practising supervisors and teachers across the world, observation and feedback are key parts of the education and evaluation process. This webinar provided the opportunity for those involved in observation and feedback to discuss the challenges they have faced during the process. If you would like to find out more about this topic, the Teacher educator community has launched a new topic on observation and feedback, in which you can review a series of articles to help develop your knowledge and skills about the observation and feedback cycle. You may need to register or log in to the Teacher Educator community. | | | Hooray! It's World Monkey Day! | This lesson for young primary students can be used as part of World Monkey Day, which is celebrated on 14 December. It includes several activities designed to help your students learn more about monkeys. Learners choose the size of monkey they want to use, trace it out on cardboard and write some of the information they’ve collected on it. Afterwards, they colour and cut out their monkeys. Read about more monkey activities here. | | | The Christmas gift experiment | This lesson plan for teenagers of all ages and adults uses a short, two-minute video to look at the concept of giving and receiving gifts at Christmas. The video focuses on shoppers at a shopping centre, or shopping mall, who are given a present but then told that it is not for them. Find out more about this lesson at CEFR level B1 and above that develops your students' fluency and writing skills. | | | The Twelve Memes of Christmas : a seasonal homework challenge | To keep your teenage students busy over the holidays (if you have holidays in your teaching context, and if not you may just want to add a bit of seasonal fun to classes in December) and to practise some digital remix literacy, here's a little challenge based on the carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. Find out more. | | | Motivated teens: A cross cultural digital exchange | Read this week's featured blog post which discusses motivation, the importance of an engaging curriculum and a caring environment, and outlines an engaging activity that adheres to Alfie Kohn's 3 Cs of motivation: content, community and choice - a cross cultural digital exchange project. | | | This is a seasonal information-gap activity to practise listening and speaking with young learners. The activity requires children to describe and organise objects in a picture according to their partner's instructions. Variations are given for different levels, class sizes and topic. | | | A whole alphabet of plan Bs | When you prepare a lesson at home, everything seems wonderful, but then you enter your classroom it can be a different story. Perhaps there is no WIFI, the computers don't work, the photocopier is broken, there is a power cut, the number of students in the classroom is unexpected and so on. In this post by Ingrid Mosquera you can find a whole alphabet of backup plans for your lessons. | | | Adrian Underhill - 'Spontaneity: The elephant in the classroom' | Planning lessons is a well-known preoccupation in ELT. Yet teachers also realise that much of what is best in the class happens spontaneously in response to the moment. Planning and Preparation are well documented in our methodology yet spontaneity has no discourse, is not researched, and remains an undiscussed skill in teacher development. Find out more about this IATEFL webinar on 4 January 2020 at 15.00 UK time here. | | | 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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