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TeachingEnglish Teachers Welcome to this week's edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! This week we are happy to announce that episode 7, Natural language, of our ten-part podcast 'The Climate Connection' is now available to listen to. We also bring news of an upcoming panel event webinar which looks at climate change and girls' education. For the classroom, we have a lesson plan for secondary learners focused on persuasive language, and a plan for primary learners on the theme of jobs and gender. If you're still teaching online, this week's featured blog post 'Transforming online classrooms to maximise speaking' offers practical advice on how to make your online classes active and lively spaces. And finally, if you're interested in approaches to assessment, check out our recent report on assessment practices. We hope you find these resources useful. The TeachingEnglish team | |
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 Education exchange: Climate change and girls' education Join the British Council for this webinar on Wednesday 18 August 2021. In this webinar, we will consider how climate change is affecting girls' education around the world. This will be a panel event, with speakers from around the world, followed by questions from the audience. The event will take place on 18 August at 4 p.m. UK time. |
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|  The Climate Connection, episode 7: Natural language This episode is all about how language shapes our environment and how the environment shapes our language. Arran Stibbe guides us through the world of ecolinguistics, looking at how language choices can be a powerful weapon in fighting the climate crisis. In our second interview, Ros Appleby talks about climate refugees, rewilding pedagogy, and how she created an English language course based on her experience of swimming with sharks. |
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 Asking for change This lesson plan for secondary learners at upper-intermediate level explores how to use persuasive language. Students will read some extracts from famous speeches asking for change, analyse the use of rhetoric (ethos, pathos and logos) in these speeches and then work to write their own persuasive speeches asking for change. |
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|  She's a policeman In this lesson for primary learners, students draw three people doing different jobs. Afterwards they are guided to notice the gender of the people they have drawn and think about why they might have drawn them like that. They then look at job names in English and consider why it's good to use non-gendered terms. Finally, they think about which jobs are important, exciting or interesting and why, and make a display. |
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 Transforming online classrooms to maximise speaking 'Whether we like it or not, online classrooms are here to stay. We teachers can transform online classes into active and lively spaces if we understand the platform well.' In this post, Sajit M Matthews provides practical tips to help us capitalise on our learners' familiarity with multimedia applications to make our classrooms more remote-learning-friendly, and ensure the participation of all the learners in our classes. |
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|  'The assessment cycle in the Professional Award for Teacher Educators: does it lead to transformational change?' This report explores assessment practices on an in-service teacher educator certified training course. The research explores changes in attitudes, behaviour and practices and offers insights into how this approach facilitates assessment literacy, helping teacher educators understand what, when, why and how to assess. |
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