British Council TeachingEnglish 7 January 2015

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TeachingEnglish Newsletter 07 January 2015            Regular readers will know that the TeachingEnglish website has hosted a number of Guest Writers. Why not have a look at our archive where you can find articles and blogs by ELT luminaries such as Adrian Underhill, Carol Read, Adrian Holliday and Michael Swan. Online teacher training courses. Continue your professional development with our moderated and self-access training courses LearnEnglish Teens  Welcome to our website with material especially designed for teenage learners. LearnEnglish Kids Children can develop their English skills with topic-based games, songs, stories. LearnEnglish Develop your English, with language games, downloads, stories and articles. BritLit The aim of BritLit is to help teachers from around the world to exploit English literature in the ELT classroom.      Premier Skills  Communicate in two of the world's global languages - English and football  English Agenda The British Council's UK home for ELT and research Welcome to the first 2015 edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!  In this edition, we have an article by CLIL expert Keith Kelly looking at collaboration between English language teachers and subject teachers. We have a video of Winnie Pang, a teacher in Hong Kong, talking about the challenges of a first class with very young learners.  There is a story about the work that the British Council is doing in Uruguay with remote teaching and we also have information about our upcoming online courses. We have a blog post from David Dodgson with suggestions for classroom activities and a lesson plan looking at future intentions using 'going to'. Happy New Year Paul TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC   Keith Kelly - COOP E CLIL: Collaboration between language teachers and subject teachers                                       In this article, Keith describes a recent training event in Austria where he was asked to provide input on how English language teachers can collaborate effectively with subject teachers. Read the article   First class with very young learners                                         In this tip, Winnie Pang demonstrates several activities that can be used with 5 year-old children who are in their first English class of the year. Winnie looks at establishing classroom routines, dealing with the issues that exist in first classes and also looks at successful ways to introduce phonics to this age group. Watch video David Dodgson - A year in review. Three quick ideas to start your 2015 classes.                                         David Dodgson is a regular contributor to the TeachingEnglish blog and one of our TeachingEnglish associates. His latest blog post provides some excellent ideas for you to use with learners in your first classes of 2015. Find out more Uruguay school pupils taught English live from London                                         School children in Uruguay are being taught English live from London, thanks to a unique videoconferencing project from the British Council and Plan Ceibal. Despite the two countries being over 6,000 miles apart, the tech-savvy initiative is using HD communications equipment to effectively link-up the classrooms across their two different continents. Currently in its pilot phase in the UK, the British arm of the project is seeing 47 classes being taught each week from Wandstead House, a community house based in the London borough of Redbridge. Read more Lesson plan - This year I...                                    In this lesson for A2 and above levels, students are introduced to and discuss the topic of New Year resolutions, while focusing on the form and use of 'going to' to express personal intentions. Download lesson plan Teacher Training with the British Council                                 Our moderated global courses give you the chance to learn and share with teachers from all over the world! All the courses have been written by our experienced team of writers and trainers. English for Teaching, CLIL Essentials and Primary Essentials start 12 January 2015; TKT Essentials starts 02 February 2015. Register now. Find out more

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LearnEnglish Kids Newsletter

LearnEnglish Kids Newsletter January 2015 Welcome to the latest LearnEnglish Kids newsletter. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Celebrate the start of 2015 with our Time for another year song. Children can sing along and then practise the months of the year with the downloadable worksheet. Kids can also tell us what they did for New Year's Eve on our New Year's Eve Your turn. Many people will start 2015 by making New Year's resolutions, for example, 'This year I'm going to speak more English.' Kids can write on the site and share their ideas on our New Year's resolutions Your turn. Whatever your plans or resolutions, we wish all our users a great 2015!   NATIONAL STORYTELLING WEEK National Storytelling Week starts on 31st January in the UK. On LearnEnglish Kids, we have lots of animated short stories for children to watch and read, each with a printable worksheet to use at home or in class.  Kids can also create their own story to print and read to their family and friends with our Story maker activity. Then they can tell us about what they like reading on our Reading Your turn.  Parents can find articles about reading for younger children and older children in our parents' section. Teachers can read an article on using the LearnEnglish Kids short stories in class, and an article on Storytelling in young learner classes on our sister site, TeachingEnglish.   TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! Have you seen the new videos on LearnEnglish Kids? George and the dragon, Beatrix Potter, The bird king and The lion and the mouse are great new stories from our British tales and Story Time collections.  If you and your children enjoyed them, you can find more of these stories on our new LearnEnglish Kids: Playtime app for iOS.   We've also added two new parents' articles and updated some of the existing ones in our Helping your child section. We'd love to know what you and your children think of these stories, articles and the LearnEnglish Kids site! Write to us at: learnenglish.kids@britishcouncil.org WRITING SKILLS We have lots of activities on our site to help children practise their writing skills at home or in the classroom.  Our Your turn section has more than 60 different topics that children can write about, and each page has questions to help them decide what to write. Many of the topics also have printable worksheets to help develop ideas and language. Kids must be a member of LearnEnglish Kids to write on the site. When they have joined, they can practise writing by adding comments on any song, story, game or activity they try! All comments are pre-moderated to help make the site a safe place.  To help improve their spelling while writing, our Speak and spell section has lots of stories to introduce children to spelling in English, as well as special Tricky words games to practise words which are difficult to spell. Teachers can read about encouraging children to develop their writing skills in the Kids and writing article on our sister site, TeachingEnglish. SOCIAL MEDIA Subscribe to our YouTube channel and check out our videos in high definition.   To be amongst the first to find out what's new, join our Facebook page!   Go to our Twitter page and follow us there for even more up-to-date information about new content on the site.         Are you aged 13-17? Are you learning English? Go to our LearnEnglish Teens website to find lots of free resources to help you pass exams and have fun while you learn English online.         Are you learning English? Have a look at LearnEnglish to find lots of resources to help you practise your English.       Do you teach English? Find lesson plans, articles and more on TeachingEnglish, the website for teachers brought to you by the British Council with the BBC.     Visit our Premier Skills website to learn two of the world's global languages - English and football.         We'd love to know what you think about our site. Send us your comments at: learnenglish.kids@britishcouncil.org      The United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland)    www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishkids    You have received this email because you subscribed to our electronic newsletter. If you wish to opt out of this British Council mailing list, please unsubscribe here. Our privacy and terms of use statements. Our commitment to freedom of information.

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