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Is this email displaying properly? If not, read it in your browser January 2022 Welcome to this months edition. We hope that you are well and find these courses and resources for January useful: How to teach speaking MOOC: Enrol before 31 January. UN International Education Day: 24 January - creative writing and learner independence webinars. National Storytelling Week: 29 January to 5 February - using stories in your primary classroom. Chinese year of the tiger: Download our education pack to celebrate come 1 February 2022. Podcast episode four: How can I teach refugees and migrants effectively? Teaching English Africa: free classroom resouces. Best wishes, The British Council TeachingEnglish Team. www.teachingenglish.org.uk  Teaching pathways: How to teach speaking Enrol until 31 January 2022. Understanding speaking: key terms and issues. Understanding speaking: maximising interaction. Understanding language practice activities. Professional development certificate awarded. Enrol now UN International Education Day webinars Join us on 24 January. 'Sparking the magic of creative writing in the primary and secondary classroom'. Practical tools and techniques to teach creative writing in a fun and engaging manner. 'Helping your students become independent learners'. Practical learning activities. Find out more National storytelling week To celebrate National Storytelling Week.from 29 January to 5 February check out these ideas for using stories and poems in your primary classroom. All of the materials are based on authentic texts or stories written especially for primary learners and are designed to engage and motivate children as well as develop their understanding of important themes and encourage personal, social and emotional development. Choose a story Chinese New Year According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, we enter the Year of the Tiger on 1 February 2022. Our Year of the Tiger education pack celebrates Chinese New Year. Featuring activities to help teachers and pupils learn more about this important spring festival and explore Chinese culture, you can learn about the South China tiger, make a kite, and have fun with an English lanaguage combined Chinese language lesson! Download Podcast four: How can I teach refugees and migrants effectively? In the 4th episode of our new, ten-part podcast series, we explore how developing language skills can play a huge role for refugees, migrants or internally-displaced persons. First, we look at the British Council's work on language for resilience. Then, teacher and trainer Brian Lally talks about his work and research in Lebanon with Syrian refugees, and identifies some core principles which teachers working in these challenging situations can use. Listen Teaching English Africa Teaching English Africa is the British Council's new regional support site for teachers and teacher educators in Sub-Saharan Africa. It provides hundreds of high-quality, free classroom resources, articles and publications to support with continuing professional development written for the African context. Choose from a wide range of support for teachers and teacher educators to help you develop your teaching skills.     Find out more 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

                                                           

TeachingEnglish teacher newsletter 05 January 2022

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Is this email displaying properly? If not, read it in your browser Newsletter TeachingEnglish Teachers Happy New Year and welcome to the first TeachingEnglish newsletter of 2022! To start the year, we bring you news of three practical teacher development opportunities. First, we invite you to register for our free, online course, 'Teaching pathways: How to teach speaking'. We also bring you six short videos to help you consider how you integrate ICT in your own professional development and in your classroom teaching. And finally, for those of you who teach teenagers, we bring news of a practical webinar on 13 January: Increasing the level of challenge in teenage classes. For the classroom, we kick off the year with calendar-based activities for lower-level learners, and a lesson plan for higher-level learners on the topics of New Year celebrations and resolutions. And finally, we're happy to announce that the third episode, 'How can I ensure my teaching is inclusive?', in our new podcast series is available to download and listen to. We hope you find these resources useful. The TeachingEnglish team Teaching pathways: How to teach speaking In this practical four-week course, you will develop your understanding of speaking skills and explore teaching techniques and activities which promote oral communication in the classroom for a range of ages and levels. This free course starts on 11 January 2022. Enrol now English Teaching Talks: Integrating ICT In this series of six short videos, Nik Peachey provides a framework to help us think about integrating ICT (information and communication technology), sources and the motivation for using ICT for our professional development, practical ideas to build both language and digital literacies in the classroom, criteria to help choose the best apps for your learners and guidance on how to plan blended work. Find out more Challenge and Cognition: Increasing the level of challenge in teenage classes To better challenge our teenage learners, and appeal to different abilities in the classroom, teachers must incorporate mastery and development tasks. Mastery tasks are mastered by all learners in a short period of time, regardless of prior learning, but developmental tasks stretch learners and develop cognitive skills. Join Sarah Smith and Claire Steele in this webinar on 13 January 2022 to find out more about raising the level of challenge. Register now Episode 3: How can I ensure my teaching is inclusive? In the third episode of our new, ten-part podcast series, we consider how to make sure teaching is inclusive. In this episode, teachers involved in the British Council's innovative Teaching for All programme in South Africa share approaches which can promote inclusivity, particularly in diverse classrooms communities. Leading inclusivity expert Anne Margaret Smith then shares her ideas about how these strategies can be adapted and adopted in your own teaching context. Listen to episode 3 Calendar-based activities Make a class calendar and use these fun activities with your primary learners to revise the words for days and months, introduce ordinal numbers and practise listening comprehension. You can also use your calendar to practise writing the date on the board and celebrate your learners' birthdays throughout the year. Go to activities New Year's resolutions Use this activity with low-level students to talk about their New Year's resolutions and practise 'going to'. Or, use this lesson plan with higher-level learners to reflect on what makes a year good or bad, discuss how they celebrated the New Year and their resolutions for 2022. Go to the lesson plan 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