TeachingEnglish newsletter 08 March 2017

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 08 March 2017 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter This week we are pleased to announce a webinar to celebrate International Women's Day today - 'Non-gendered language: how to teach it, should we teach it?' For the classroom we have a useful article on maintaining concentration with primary learners, a lesson on the topic of advertising for teens, and a lesson for adults on brainstorming and evaluating at meetings. We feature the final three talks from the TESOL Summit 2017, each on the theme of 'The Profession as a Change Agent'. And finally, The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) announces this year's Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDG) competition. Find out more about types of grants, eligibility, and TIRF's current research priorities. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Do you have trouble maintaining the concentration of your young learners? This article offers some reasons why children might not be listening to you or doing the task they should be, and then provides some solutions to the problems your may be experiencing with classroom management issues. It also offers some tips to help you keep primary children interested in your lesson. Read more Teaching teens 'Advertisement Storyboard' is a lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at pre-intermediate level and above explores the theme of advertising. There is a discussion on where advertisements can be found. The concept of a storyboard is introduced and an example of a storyboard for an advert is examined in detail. In the final stage of the lesson, students are given the opportunity to produce their own storyboard to advertise a product. Go to the lesson plan Teaching adults This lesson covers two of the key language functions of meetings: making suggestions and agreeing/disagreeing. Students practice brainstorming at the same time as exploring possible improvements, and then focus on the necessary follow-up to brainstorming: evaluating ideas. They are also introduced to some useful phrases for making suggestions, agreeing and disagreeing. Go to the lesson plan Development Our next free EnglishAgenda webinar celebrates International Women's Day on Wednesday 8 March, 16.00 - 17.00 UK time. The subject of the webinar is 'Non-gendered language: how to teach it, should we teach it?' The webinar will examine gender-neutral language and discuss why the teaching of gender- neutral language should be an important element of the ELT classroom. It will also provide practical examples as to how teachers can integrate teaching of this aspect into their own syllabuses. Register now Events The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF) is pleased to announce its 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDG) competition. Grants of up to US $5,000 will be made to successful applicants investigating a range of topics in English language education. The application deadline is Wednesday, April 26, 2017.   Find out more Magazine Each member of the TESOL profession must be empowered to foster positive change within a risk-tolerant culture. The final three talks from the TESOL Summit 2017 on the future of the ELT profession were on the theme of 'The Profession as a Change Agent'. Watch recordings of three 15-minute presentations by Constant Leung (Inquiry), Franklin Tellez (Equity), and Misty Adoniou (Professionalism). Find out more and watch recordings of the talks 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 March 2017

LearnEnglish Kids newsletter  March 2017 Welcome to the latest LearnEnglish Kids newsletter. NEW GAMES FOR SONGS! Have you seen our songs section recently? We have added new games to almost all of our songs to help children learn new vocabulary. Listen to the word, then match the word and the picture. We will be adding even more games to our songs and stories soon!   THE ENVIRONMENT Did you know that this month there are many special days for the environment? Children can celebrate World Wildlife Day (3 March), the International Day of Forests (21 March), World Water Day (22 March) and Earth Hour (25 March). Find lots of environment activities to help kids learn English in our Environment topic! WORLD METEOROLOGICAL DAY Do your children know how to talk about the weather in English? It's World Meteorological Day on 23 March, and we have lots of weather games, songs, stories and activities for kids to try. Go to our Weather topic to find them all! INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY Do you celebrate International Women's Day (8 March) where you live? Children can find out about three important women from British history with our stories about Beatrix Potter, Emmeline Pankhurst and Florence Nightingale.  You can find all of these 'British tales' stories and more in our UK topic.   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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TeachingEnglish newsletter 01 March 2017

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 01 March 2017 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter This week we feature three more talks from the TESOL Summit 2017 on the future of the ELT profession, on the theme of Reimagining English Competence, and a blog post by David Petrie - 'Action Research - as easy as 1, 2, 3'. For the classroom, we have a lesson for teens based on the themes of immigration, demography and ethnic minorities - 'A Multicultural Society'. And we have a special lesson plan to mark International Women's Day on 8 March - 'Women in science'. We also have a new moderated online course starting this week - 'Primary: Discovering creative classrooms'. And, finally, take a look at a recording of a very interesting and practical webinar with Tran Thi Hieu Thuy and Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong on the topic of enhancing teacher reflection. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids 'Primary: Discovering creative classrooms' is a 15-hour moderated online course designed to help you gain resource-making ideas and develop a wide range of skills and activities for everyday use in your primary classroom. The course starts Thursday, 02 March. Find out more Teaching teens 'A Multicultural Society' is a lesson based around the different ethnic minority groups which make up the UK population. There are a range of reading and discussion tasks, which enable students to reflect on their own culture and minorities within it. It is suitable for learners aged 12 + at B2 level, and students will develop speaking skills, reading skills and critical thinking skills.  Go to the lesson plan Teaching adults To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, our latest lesson plan for teens and adults raises awareness of some of the reasons why women are relatively poorly represented in science. This lesson for adults or older teens at B2 level, focuses on reference words, and how they link a text together, and speaking skills development on the topic of jobs and gender. Go to the lesson plan Development In this webinar recording 'Enhancing the quality of reflection', from last year's Teaching for Success Online conference Tran Thi Hieu Thuy and Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong review the concept of reflection and Brookfield's theory of four lenses in critically reflective teaching practice. They also propose guidelines for teachers to apply useful tools for reflection in each lens.    Find out more and watch the recording Events How can we overcome the native speaker as the standard and address the changing realities of English language use around the world, both with regard to students' needs for English and to teachers' needs for proficiency in English? Watch recordings of three 15-minute presentations on the theme of Reimagining English Competence by Anne Katz (Inquiry), Giselle Lundy-Ponce (Equity), and Ahmar Mahboob (Professionalism). Find out more and watch the recordings Magazine 'Action Research - as easy as 1, 2, 3' by David Petrie answers three basic questions: What is action research? Why do it? How do I do it? To find out more about getting started with action research, take a look at this very accessible and practical blog post. 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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