TeachingEnglish newsletter | | | Welcome to the first edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter for 2020!
To start off the year, we have news of an exciting upcoming webinar, TWO special lesson plans to kick off the year with primary learners and ONE for adults, two calls for proposals, a great blog post and we announce the winner of our blog of the month award for November 2019.
We hope you find these resources, events and opportunities useful, and we wish you all a very happy new year and new decade.
The TeachingEnglish team | | Storytelling for diverse voices – webinar | Join us on 24 January 2020 at 12.00 p.m. UK time for our webinar, 'Storytelling for diverse voices', with David Heathfield and Alla Göksu. In this inclusive workshop, you will respond creatively to a folk story, share stories you know, learn about the impact storytelling can have on school students from diverse cultural and social backgrounds with different abilities and dispositions towards learning, and more. Find out more and register for the webinar here. | | | A lot of people make resolutions at the beginning of a new year, and January is a good time for language learners to think about what they can do to maximise their learning in the year ahead. The lesson starts with a brainstorming activity, then learners are guided to notice how language practice can be divided into distinct skills and given an opportunity to come up with creative ideas for practising English. The lesson finishes with learners making their own action plan for the year ahead. Read more. | | | Dictionary Research Awards: Call for proposals | The Hornby Trust announces a call for proposals under the A.S. Hornby Dictionary Research Awards initiative (ASHDRA) for 2020. Each award will be for a research project of up to two years. The maximum amount for any one award will be £15,000 disbursed over one or two years. You may apply for the full amount of £15,000 or for a smaller amount, depending on the scale of your activity. The deadline for proposals is 17 April 2020. Find out more. | | | Featured blog of the month award for November 2019 | Our featured blog of the month award for November 2019 goes to Marek at TEFL Equity Advocates and his post, 'How to write materials and lesson plans for teaching English as a lingua franca'. Shortlisted posts include Cristina Cabal's 'The 5 Seconds Game to Revise Vocabulary' – a lovely activity idea for reviewing vocabulary at the beginning of a lesson – and Gianfranco's top tips on how to help learners develop their spoken fluency, 'On fluency and spontaneity: beyond "practice makes perfect".' | | | Calendar-based activities | This lesson is based around the calendar and helping students to use dates. Using a downloadable calendar for 2020 and the suggested fun activities, learners can revise the words for days and months, learn the ordinal numbers we use for the date, identify dates and write the date. Read more. | | | Teachers and teacher educators: Education and professional development for early language learning | This is the third call for the international conference, Teachers and teacher educators: Education and professional development for early language learning, at Nova University Lisbon from 12 to 14 November 2020. The purpose of this conference is to focus on the education and professional development of teachers and teacher educators to foster multilingual spaces in the early years of formal education, and to provide a platform to further cement the relevance of learning from and with different contexts. The deadline for receipt of proposals is 28 February 2020. Find out more. | | | Think like a teenager – 10 methods to motivate teenage learners | Teenagers can be notoriously difficult to motivate. Yes, that's true. Instead of playing the blame-game and figuring out who is to blame for their lack of engagement, we should try to observe the world from their perspective. Quite a lot of research and academic articles point out that for our students to be engaged in learning, we need to appear engaged as well. To put it simply, positive energy is contagious, and if you are excited about teaching with a certain method, the students will share your excitement as well. In this post, Milica Vukadin shares methods she uses to motivate her teenage students. | | | The Chinese New Year is one of the many colourful events celebrated in our multicultural calendar, and this year it is 25 January. Each year in the Chinese calendar is named after an animal, and in this lesson primary learners will listen to the story of how the order of the animals was decided. They will join in with the story and retell it, then do some follow-up work practising saying years, using 'will' for future predictions or making a craft. See lesson plan. | | | 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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