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LearnEnglish Kids Newsletter

British Council
LearnEnglish Kids Newsletter
May 2016

Welcome to the latest LearnEnglish Kids newsletter.

NEW FLASHCARDS!
Flashcards are a great way for children to learn, practise and revise words. Our newest sets, Health, Space and Fairy stories flashcards, have two versions. You can print colour flashcards with words, or you can print a set for children to colour and write the word!

For ideas of how to play flashcard games, watch our Card safari video tip and Memory game video tip, or read our Play a flashcard game top tip. 
 
WALK TO SCHOOL WEEK
Walk to School Week is 16-20 May in the UK. Children will enjoy learning about road safety with our story and song. Then they can sing another song to find out how to safely cross the road.
 
Kids can also answer questions about staying safe on the road with our fun Road safety run game.
 
Have fun walking to school, and stay safe! 

HOLIDAY COURSES
School holidays are coming soon for lots of children, and many British Council teaching centres around the world offer a variety of fun English holiday courses.

Visit our language courses page for more information about courses in your country or select your country from the list on our homepage.

COMING SOON!
We're very excited that LearnEnglish Kids will have a great new look very soon! 

Our pages will be organised better and resources will be easier to find. We will have new sections too, for example a video zone, colouring pages and reading and writing practice. 

Watch out for our new look coming soon!

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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.

 

 

 

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Rabu, 27 April 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 27 April 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
27 April 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

This week we have a NEW lesson plan for kids to celebrate St George's Day this month.

For teens and adults, we have activities to develop listening skills, particularly listening for specific information.

We also announce an interesting NEW publication on how the CEFR is being used in China, and that registration for our next Primary Essentials course is now
open.

And finally, if you missed the British Council Signature event at IATEFL this year - Shakespeare lives - you can watch a recording of this lively session.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

April is the month when St George's Day is celebrated. In this lesson, pupils read the story of St George and the Dragon and work in pairs or small groups to produce pictures for different parts of the story. Using only their illustrations, they practise their speaking skills by retelling the story.

Teaching teens

'Listen for your word' is a simple way to improve students' concentration during listening activities. This activity, from a talk by Jeremy Harmer can be used with different levels. All students have to do is listen, pay attention and have fun. Try it in your class.





Teaching adults

Do your students need to practise listening for specific information? These activities are good for training the students to hear everything and to identify individual words. They are challenging but students can see an improvement. You can do these kinds of activities regularly and they needn't take up a great deal of time.


Development

Primary Essentials provides teachers with an introduction to teaching English to young learners aged 7 to 11. Using video, audio and community elements, you will learn the essentials to help you succeed in your teaching of young learners. Course starts 26 May.




Events

If you were unable to attend the British Council Signature Event at IATEFL Birmingham - Shakespeare lives: love, hate, death and desire in English language classrooms - you can catch up with a video recording of this practical, thought-provoking and interactive event.





Magazine

'Investigating the practice of The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) outside Europe: a case study on the assessment of writing
in English in China' explores the CEFR in relation to its current profile and use in China, and considers its possible application in assessing the writing of English by Chinese university students.


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Rabu, 20 April 2016

TeachingEnglish newsletter 20 April 2016

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
20 April 2016

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter!

After a fabulous IATEFL conference we are back this week with more resources and news.

To start, you can catch up on all the plenaries, conference sessions and interviews you might have missed at IATEFL Birmingham 2016.

If you work in a low-resource context, you can check out our NEW training resources, which include primary and secondary stories of success.

We also have a brand NEW blog of the month award. Chia Suan Chong posts 5 reasons why native speakers need to learn to speak English internationally.

For the classroom we have Fairy Tales for kids, and Find the murderer for teens.

And finally, watch a recent video talk by Raymond Murphy on his publication English Grammar In Use.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team

Teaching kids

Fairy Tales provide a wealth of possibilities for teaching English topics. Each fairy tale has its own magical setting and is split into several scenes. Within each scene there are sets of vocabulary that you can exploit. This plan looks at a few of the better known fairy tales and highlights some of the possible areas you can concentrate on in class.

Teaching teens

Find the murderer is a speaking and listening activity for teens and can be done with different levels. Students are involved in play-acting, using their imaginations, and are encouraged to practise using the past continuous tense.





Teaching adults

On 18 March, Raymond Murphy visited Russia to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first publication of English Grammar in Use. Invited by The British Council, Murphy spoke of the difficulties learners face when teachers use grammatical terminology that isn't necessary.



Development

Throughout the world English is often taught in 'low-resource' classrooms, but there are few training materials which are derived from and which reflect this reality. The materials presented here are intended to help fill this gap.


Events

IATEFL Birmingham 2016 may be over but you can still catch up with what you missed. You can watch videos from the all the plenaries, conference sessions and interviews you might have missed. You can also find the plenaries, 37 conference sessions and over 50 interviews available to watch here on IATEFL Birmingham Online, all free of charge to access.


Magazine

Our featured blog of the month award goes to Chia Suan Chong and her post 5 reasons why native speakers need to learn to speak English internationally. Do native English speakers need language training in order to communicate successfully in an international context in their own native tongue? This is the interesting question that Chia Suan Chong raises in her blog post.


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