British Council TeachingEnglish 01 July 2015

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TeachingEnglish Newsletter 01 July 2015 IATEFL Online Manchester 2015 Watch recordings of talks and interviews from this year's IATEFL conference through our specially developed website.  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            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. Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter!  This week, we have lots of activities on the theme of summer, and ideas to help your students maintain and develop their English during the break. We also have recordings of the 'Teachers Research!' conference in Turkey and news of a new publication- Teacher-researchers in action. Check out our suggestions on how you can use activities from our websites, LearnEnglishKids and LearnEnglishTeens to promote creativity in the classroom. And finally, why not up your skills this summer and take a British Council course. We hope you find these useful. Deb TeachingEnglish Team | British Council | BBC   Activities on the theme of Summer                                       With the summer holidays or summer school courses approaching it might be nice to base some of your lessons around this seasonal theme. Here is a selection of activities that you can use a various levels. Read more   Watch the 'Teachers Research!' conference                                         The IATEFL Research SIG Annual International Conference and 5th Gediz University Annual Teacher Research Conference took place in Izmir, Turkey on 18-19 June 2015 and some sessions have been recorded for you to watch at home. Watch sessions Lizzie Pinard - keeping your learning going in the summer break                                         In many parts of the world, learners are coming up to a long summer break. What can they do during a longer period like this to maintain and develop their English? Apart from the typical 'read a book' or 'Watch films in English', what tools and methods can you suggest that will help? Read more Get creative with our British Council websites for young learners                                         On Wednesday 24 June we livestreamed the launch of our brand new publication 'Creativity in the English language classroom'. Here we look at a few suggestions for how you can use activities from our websites, LearnEnglish Kids and LearnEnglish Teens to promote creativity in the young learner classroom. Find out more New IATEFL Research SIG publication: Teacher-researchers in action                                    A new book all about teacher research has just been published by the IATEFL Research SIG. The book contains chapters written by teacher-researchers working at universities across Turkey and aims to share research relating to classroom practice with the wider ELT community. Read more Take a British Council training course this summer!                                 The TKT Essentials course is for inexperienced teachers or teachers in pre-service training, experienced teachers who want to refresh their knowledge, experienced teachers who want to gain knowledge of CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) and teachers preparing to take the TKT test. The next course starts 06 July and registration is now open. If you want an introduction to teaching English to young learners aged 7 to 11, then Primary Essentials is for you. Using video, audio and community elements, you will learn the essentials to help you succeed in your teaching. The course starts 13 July and registration is now open.

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LearnEnglish Kids Newsletter

LearnEnglish Kids Newsletter July 2015 Welcome to the latest LearnEnglish Kids newsletter. EID AL-FITR In July, many people around the world will celebrate Eid al-Fitr, a Muslim festival at the end of Ramadan. Children can listen to a girl from Egypt tell us about this celebration in our Eid al-Fitr story.   Kids can also write and tell us about their favourite day in our Favourite day Your turn or try our Festivals in the UK quiz to learn about many other special days celebrated in Britain.   HOLIDAY TIME! In the UK, it's time for the long summer holidays for children.   Kids can read The lucky envelope story to see which holiday Dalia's family chooses, or try our Gran's adventures video, to practise talking about their experiences.   Younger children will enjoy our Beach Paint it game, and older kids can write about their summer holidays, or tell us when they next have a holiday, on our Summer holidays Your turn. TOP TIPS FOR PARENTS! Have you seen our new Top tips section for parents? Here you'll find lots of short, easy-to-read tips on helping your child learn English.    We also have short Video tips where you can watch families practising English in different ways.    We'll be adding more tips to both these sections soon! If you are a teacher, these are great resources to recommend to your learners' parents. PRACTISING ENGLISH A great way for your child to practise their English is by writing comments on our site. Kids can comment on any of our fun games, songs, stories and activities, in a safe environment as we moderate all comments before they are published.    It's free to register, and children can design their own special character that appears next to their comments.   Don't forget our Parents' forum too, where you can ask questions or give your own suggestions on topics related to children learning English. We love to hear from you!   The LearnEnglish Kids newsletter is taking a break next month, so our next newsletter will be in September. See you then! 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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