Classroom and teacher development resources: webinar, online course, lesson plans, publication and more
May 2022 Welcome to this month's second edition. We hope that you are well and find these professional development and classroom resources useful: Best wishes, The British Council TeachingEnglish Team www.teachingenglish.org.uk | |
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 How to design tasks which promote creative thinking skills: Part 1 Join us on 26 May for the second webinar in our series looking at how to bring creativity into the classroom. Have you ever found yourself staring at coursebook materials and wondering how to make the tasks more creative, engaging and meaningful for your students? In our second webinar on creativity, Claire Steele and Sarah Smith from eltonix will explore how to promote creative thinking skills in task design. |
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|  Language for resilience: Teaching English to refugees and displaced learners As part of our programme to recognise and celebrate World Refugee Day on 20 June, join our Language for Resilience online course for teachers. Throughout the course you will learn effective strategies and techniques to help make your classroom a safe environment. The course begins on 7 June 2022 and lasts for four weeks. Each of the three modules involves approximately three hours of study. |
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 ELTons Outstanding Achievement Award 2022 The ELTons Outstanding Achievement Award recognises and celebrates those who have made a lasting and extraordinary impact on English language teaching and learning around the world. Nominations are encouraged from all nationalities, cultural or ethnic backgrounds, genders and first languages, and can include well-known leaders to typically unsung heroes. Make your nomination before midnight on Sunday 12 June 2022. |
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|  Let's speak up: Engaging young learners with (8) chit-chat activities Engaging young learners seems to be a never-ending topic, and we are always in a constant search for effective activities that practise all four skills. Milica Vukadin discusses why speaking activities are important, even with large classes; the characteristics of effective speaking activities; and outlines eight activities that will motivate young learners to speak up and enjoy conversing with their classmates. |
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 Environmental problems World Environment Day is celebrated every year on 5 June to raise awareness of major environmental issues such as global warming, increasing pollution, etc. This lesson for adults and teenagers at B1+ level introduces learners to some of the main issues related to climate change. Learners focus on dictionary skills and the pronunciation of strong and weak syllables in long words. |
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|  'Climate action in language education: Activities for low resource contexts' This free publication by Daniel Barber, Katherine Bilsborough, Christopher Graham and Thomas Kral provides teachers with a bank of 30 activities, based on ten climate-change themes, with step-by-step guidance for each activity. The activities cover a range of levels and age groups, and each explores climate change through one of ten topics, from sports to storms and from farming to fashion. |
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