TeachingEnglish teacher newsletter 31 March 2021

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Is this email displaying properly? If not, read it in your browser Newsletter TeachingEnglish Teachers Welcome to this week's edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we are happy to bring you news of a free, online course 'Dyslexia and foreign language teaching'. We also announce our new blog topics for April to June, and you can catch up on our featured posts from March. For the classroom, we have a speaking activity to wake up your sleepy learners and a couple of lesson plans to mark two special events, Easter and April Fool's Day. And finally, we have a recording of an interesting panel discussion with researchers and English teachers in Gaza.   We hope you find these resources useful. The TeachingEnglish team Being English teachers in Gaza Over the last year, a small group of primary English teachers from Gaza have been working with a researcher to reflect on and discuss their professional identity as teachers. This is a panel discussion with the research participants, showcasing their perspectives on a number of questions. Watch the panel discussion Blog topics for April, May and June 2021 Our new blog topics look at official language days, teaching reading in online classes, encouraging students to speak more, and a focus on vocabulary teaching. On this page you can also take a look at the most recent posts from our TeachingEnglish bloggers, and find out how you can become a TeachingEnglish blogger. Read more Chocolate Tie in some of these activities to a lesson about Easter. Chocolate Easter eggs are a part of the Easter celebrations for most British people. In the lesson, students list their favourite sweet and savoury foods, take a quiz about chocoholics and do a simple reading task and a fun recipe dictation. Finally, they will invent their own new chocolate bar. Read more April Fool's Day In this lesson students will learn about April Fool's Day in the UK. They will discuss whether they have a similar day in their country, read about attitudes to April Fool's Day in the UK, read about and then explain some famous April Fool's Day tricks and finally come up with their own trick to play on someone else. Go to the lesson plan ARM exercises: speaking activity to wake up a sleepy class This is a great way to start a lesson with a free-speaking activity. I call it 'ARM exercises' which is simply short for Accept, Reject or Modify statements. The activity can really stimulate discussion and the focus is very much on the students rather than the teacher. To round off the activity, finish with a short, whole-class feedback stage. Go to the activity Dyslexia and foreign language teaching Enrolment is open for this free, online course starting on 19 April 2021. Learn more about dyslexia, and gain practical teaching tools and insights to help dyslexic students learn foreign languages. This exciting four-week course is offered by Lancaster University in co-operation with FutureLearn. Find out more and join the course Contact us Connect with us © British Council The United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). You have received this newsletter because you have registered for updates. If you wish to opt out of future newsletters, please unsubscribe here. Update your marketing preferences