TeachingEnglish newsletter 06 April 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 06 April 2016 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter! Join us once again for IATEFL Online! If you can't attend the 2016 IATEFL Conference, don't forget you can tune in for live coverage starting Tuesday 12 April. To continue our celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this week we have 7 brand NEW lesson plans for kids! We also have an imaginative project lesson for teens - 'Design a mobile phone', and an article on how to turn authentic WWW texts into useful activities for adults. If you're interested in using video with your students, check out Jamie Keddie's blog post 'Digital scissors and sellotape', to find out more about the skills that allow us to manipulate video as material. And finally, registration is now open for our popular CLIL Essentials course. PLEASE NOTE the TE news will be taking a break next week, but we would encourage you to join us live and online at IATEFL 2016. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids We have 7 new lesson plans celebrating the life and work of Shakespeare for you to use with your young learners to accompany the short animated videos of six of Shakespeare's plays - Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream, plus Shakespeare's life and extension activities!   Go to the lesson plans Teaching teens 'Design a mobile phone' can be used with all levels and could be extended to a mini-project for younger students. Students should work together to design the next generation mobile phone and be encouraged to be as imaginative as they can.  Go to the activity Teaching adults The world wide web offers a myriad of opportunities for authentic English reading texts. Any good teacher can turn a reasonable authentic reading text into a useful and fulfilling activity, so why not take the same skills you might use with a newspaper article and turn them to good use, bearing in mind various aspects of the newer medium that are peculiar to it. This article 'Designing a WWW reading task' gives advice on designing tasks based on the internet. Go to the article Development Registration for our popular course, CLIL Essentials, is now open. If you are teaching school subjects in English, then this course will provide comprehensive training on the methodology and practice of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) you need in your work. The course starts 09 June and is 15 weeks long. Find out more Events Join us for one of the highlights of the English Language Teaching calendar. If you can't attend the 2016 IATEFL Conference, tune in for live coverage starting Tuesday 12 April. This year - once again - the British Council is teaming up with IATEFL to provide online coverage of the 2016 IATEFL conference. Watch live plenary sessions, interviews and over 50 conference sessions. Coverage starts each day from 9.00 am (UK time). Join us for IATEFL Online! Find out more Magazine What are the basic technical skills that we need, as teachers, if we want to use online video in the classroom? The skills that allow us to manipulate video as material - skills that can be referred to as 'digital scissors and sellotape'. Read Jamie Keddie's blog post about the everyday skills that allow us to copy, paste, cut, edit and share. Read more You have received this newsletter because you registered on our website or previously showed interest in British Council news. If you wish to opt out of future newsletters please unsubscribe here.

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LearnEnglish Kids Newsletter

LearnEnglish Kids Newsletter April 2016 Welcome to the latest LearnEnglish Kids newsletter. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This month we are celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. Shakespeare wrote at least 38 plays, and 400 years later they are some of the most popular and performed plays in the world. Children can watch our William Shakespeare story to learn more about his life, and then try the games and downloadable worksheet.    SHAKESPEARE LIVES We have six special videos adapted for children, which tell the stories of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Each video comes with games and a downloadable worksheet. On TeachingEnglish, teachers will find lesson plans for each video aimed at primary-aged children.  Find out more about how the British Council is celebrating Shakespeare with the Shakespeare Lives project.  CHILDREN'S APP SALE We're excited to announce a new kids' app coming soon, Learning Time with Timmy 2!  To celebrate, we're putting two of our kids' apps on sale on the iTunes App Store. Get a free one-month subscription in our LearnEnglish Kids: Playtime app and start watching over 100 video stories and songs to practise listening and reading. Get more than 50% off our Learning Time with Timmy app and start playing fun games to learn spelling and vocabulary! Don't wait, the sale ends on 4 April! APRIL SPECIAL DAYS 23 April is St George's Day, and children will enjoy watching our George and the dragon story to find out why he is the patron saint of England and many other countries.  World Health Day is on 7 April, and World Malaria Day takes place on 25 April. Our I'm too ill story talks about different illnesses, and in The story of quinine, children can learn about a medicine that helps fight malaria. Kids can also print and play games with our new Health flashcards, or print a version to colour and write to make their own set.  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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