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TeachingEnglish newsletter 10 May 2017

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
10 May 2017

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter
This week we feature a blog post on the challenges of teaching teenagers, and a recording of this week's webinar looking at how to help adult learners become storytellers and published authors.

We also feature a recorded talk from IATEFL 2017 - 'Building fluency and comprehension in dyslexic readers'.

For the classroom, we have a new lesson plan for adults and teens which looks at the concept of identity and the Collecting Europe project, and an article plus activities to get you Teaching Unplugged.

We also have a special lesson plan for primary kids, 'The Very Busy Spider', which raises awareness about children who are visually impaired.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team
Teaching kids

This lesson plan, 'The Very Busy Spider', for teachers of primary students aged 5 to 6 years old helps in raising awareness about children who are visually impaired. Students will make a touchy-feely book and give a presentation of the story.





Teaching teens

If you'd like to have a first go at 'Teaching Unplugged', your aim is simply to get students to produce language and then to use the language they produce as the basis for your lesson. The most important part is not how you generate the emergent language (that is, the language that the students produce as they are talking) but what you do with the language. The subject you choose can literally be anything in the world, but here are some ideas to get you started.

Teaching adults

Our latest lesson plan for adults and teenagers, 'Collecting Europe - Identity', looks at the concept of identity and the Collecting Europe project. Students will speak about identity issues, watch a short video about how people identify themselves, make predictions about their own future and the future of society, and take part in the 'Collecting Europe' quiz by considering some of the questions it asks.



Development

This talk from IATEFL 2017 by Julia Koifman, 'Building fluency and comprehension in dyslexic readers', focuses on teaching dyslexic students reading comprehension and improving their spelling, speaking and writing skills. Julia explores ways to activate the inherent strengths of the dyslexic mind and deals with modern and effective methodology.


Events

In our latest EnglishAgenda webinar, which took place on Monday 8 May, Judy Kirsh, teacher educator and ESOL/literacy specialist, explored the process of supporting migrant women and volunteer befrienders to become published authors. Judy presented on behalf of Learning Unlimited LTD, winner of the 2016 British Council ELTon award for Innovation in learner resources.

Magazine

What are some of the challenges of teaching teenagers? This post, 'Teenager challenges', by James Taylor looks at some of the issues he faced and some of the lessons he has learned.







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Rabu, 03 Mei 2017

TeachingEnglish newsletter 03 May 2017

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers
03 May 2017

Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter
Important. In last week's newsletter, we stated that completion of the MOOC course would qualify you for a 30% discount on our online MA in ELT. This should have said that you 'might be eligible to apply for a scholarship to cover part of the fees'.

For the classroom this week we feature a two part series of activities for kids - 'My Favourite Day'. 

We also have a lesson plan for teens and adults on the theme of music. And if you need ideas on how to monitor students' speech effectively, take a look at our article 'Monitoring Speaking'.

We are also pleased to announce the winner of our blog of the month award for March, which goes to ELT Connect and their post 'Fun with Phrasal Verbs'.

Our featured blog post this week is 'Embracing Inclusion' by Madhu Tiwari.

And finally, we feature an article by Tim Phillips on the British Council's approach to teacher development in state education systems - Teaching for Success.

We hope you find these resources useful.

Deb
TeachingEnglish team
Teaching kids

My Favourite Day 1 is the first in a two part series. Here you have a few ideas on how to review days of the week, months of the year and dates while allowing children to personalise the lesson and allowing you to give them some invaluable cultural input. 

My Favourite Day 2 focuses on special days and birthdays in particular.




Teaching teens

'Music is Great' is a lesson plan for teachers of older teenagers and adults at level B1 explores the theme of music. Students will develop their reading, speaking and listening skills. The students' own experiences and opinions form the basis of all discussion and extension work.




Teaching adults

As teachers we all accept that there is a role for correcting student speech in the language classroom. However, this often takes place when students are speaking in open class - when all other students can hear them and they are under enormous performance pressure - or on a personal, one-to-one level, which naturally excludes other students in the class. Find out more about the practicalities of monitoring student speech effectively in this article.

Development

British Council Teaching for Success is the British Council's approach to teacher development in state education systems. Our vision is that: "All teachers in the world have high-quality continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities that improve their own practice and their learners' success". Read more about the Teaching for Success approach and our resources to help you with your professional development.

Events

Our featured blog of the month award for March goes to ELT Connect and their post Fun with Phrasal Verbs. Written by Aoife Mcloughlin, these games from ELT Connect for getting students to practise phrasal verbs are really great - and they will work with most levels and ages. This month's shortlist also features resources for writing a CV, a game for word formation, a foldable word game and ideas for using grammar word searches.

Magazine

Teaching learners with special educational needs doesn't come easy. It calls for prowess along with 'sense sensitive training'. In this post Madhu Tiwari shares her experience of teaching a bright and ambitious visually impaired teenage girl, in the mainstream classroom. Read about the strategies she used to support inclusive learning in her latest blog post 'Embracing Inclusion'.





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Senin, 01 Mei 2017

LearnEnglish Kids newsletter May 2017

British Council
LearnEnglish Kids newsletter 
May 2017

Welcome to the latest LearnEnglish Kids newsletter.

NEW COLOURING PAGES!
Do your children like colouring? We've just added nine new colouring pages, including Fruit and vegetables, Pirates, Desert island and Pencil case, as well as more seasons pictures. Kids can print, read and colour the pictures to practise their English. Find them all in our Colouring section!
 
RAMADAN
What does your child know about Ramadan? Ramadan starts at the end of May and is an important time of year in the Islamic calendar.

Children can watch a story or listen to a song to find out more, and print the worksheets to help them understand. If they are members of LearnEnglish Kids they can also write a comment about it on the site!

MAY SPECIAL DAYS
Will you be celebrating World Migratory Bird Day (10 May) or the International Day of Families (15 May)? 

Kids can learn words for birds in our Birds word game, or watch The bird king, a traditional story about a race to become king of the birds. We have lots of fun activities about families in our Families topic too!

HOLIDAY COURSES
British Council
Did you know that the British Council has teaching centres in many countries around the world? School holidays are coming soon for lots of children, and many teaching centres offer a variety of fun English holiday courses. 

Visit our Courses page for more information about courses in your country, or select your country from the list on the British Council homepage

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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.

 

 

 

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