Songs and other activities for English learning at home

LearnEnglish Kids newsletter May 2020

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LearnEnglish Kids newsletter May 2020 Hi and thanks for subscribing to our newsletter. With lots of children still learning at home this month, we've selected some activities to help your kids practise their English. We hope that they enjoy them. Take care, The LearnEnglish Kids team COVID-19 SUPPORT FOR PARENTS To help parents with children learning at home, we've created a printable activity diary for kids to record what they do on LearnEnglish Kids. It can be motivating for children to keep a record of what they do and learn, and you can review it together at the end of the day. You'll find the printable worksheet and lots of ideas for supporting your child's English learning at home on our Covid-19 support for parents page. NEW SONGS! Songs are a fantastic way to learn vocabulary and improve pronunciation. We've recently added five new animated songs for children to sing along to, featuring brother and sister Ali and Nanu, and a very special robot! Each song focuses on a different topic, like introducing yourself, feelings or food, and comes with interactive games and a downloadable worksheet. You'll find them all in our Robot songs topic. We hope you and your learners enjoy them!    JOBS AND FAMILIES At this time we're especially grateful to those working in essential services. International Workers' Day is celebrated around the world on 1 May. Kids can practise vocabulary, grammar, spelling, listening comprehension and more with the activities in our Jobs topic.  Many people are spending a lot of time with their families at the moment. Celebrate the International Day of Families on 15 May with all of the resources in our Family topic! EID AL-FITR Eid al-Fitr is a very important Islamic celebration at the end of Ramadan, and it starts on 23 May this year.  Kids can watch a story, My favourite day - Eid al-Fitr, and find out more about it. 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 29 April 2020

TeachingEnglish newsletter 29 April 2020 Welcome to the latest edition of the TeachingEnglish newsletter! The British Council is committed to supporting teachers and teacher educators during the Covid-19 crisis. This week we bring you news of a webinar on creative activities for young language learners at home, an online lesson for secondary and adult students, a series of free online professional development courses to choose from, a series of guides on remote teaching, and two surveys to take part in. We hope you find these and other resources on our website useful. The TeachingEnglish team Webinar – Creative activities for language learners at home This is the seventh in our series of webinars aimed at supporting teachers working in an online context. It is also the first in a series of 12 webinars by winners of the British Council's English Language Teaching Research Awards (ELTRAs). In this webinar, we present the Language Suitcase – a toolkit full of activities developed collaboratively by artists, teachers and researchers. Parents do not need to act as teachers, and children just need to activate their curiosity. Join us on 6 May at 12 p.m. UK time. Guidance for remote teaching The Remote Teaching Tips series provides practical ideas and guidance for teachers supporting their learners using a variety of platforms and approaches, across different contexts. Topics include online lessons and teaching via SMS, telephone calls, Facebook and messenger apps. See our guidance documents. Global practices in teaching English to young learners: ten years on Do you teach English to young learners? In conjunction with the British Council, the University of Stirling and Aston University have recently launched a survey for teachers of English to young learners in primary (elementary) schools. The survey aims to investigate teachers’ classroom practices and the challenges they face. The findings will be compared with findings from a similar study ten years ago in order to understand how teaching English to children has developed. Find out more. Lesson plan: Foreign words used in English Use this lesson in online or face-to-face teaching with older teenagers or adults at CEFR level B2 and above to look at how foreign words are used in the English language. The lesson begins with a short quiz about the English language, which makes sure that the students understand what a hybrid language English is and the concept of loan words. They then look at some common loan words and try to decide which language they originally came from, before reading a short text to check their ideas. Teaching for Success free online courses We offer a number of different courses free of charge. Our Language for Resilience series consists of a number of four-week modules. The first module – An introduction to trauma and its effects in the classroom – begins on 4 May 2020. Other courses on offer include 'English in early childhood: language learning and development', 'The classroom and the world', 'Learning and learners', 'Assessment in the classroom' and 'Lessons and teaching'. Find a free course to suit your development needs here. Language teacher well-being project Take part in an online survey designed by researchers from the University of Graz, the University of Sharjah and Cape Breton University about psychological and social experiences during this period of the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim of this research is to better understand the effects of the move to online and remote teaching on teachers’ health and well-being under the current conditions. It is hoped it will teach lessons we can draw on in the future to appreciate the kinds of support that teachers need when facing periods of upheaval and change. ‌ British Council teacher community on Facebook Join the British Council teacher community on Facebook to share ideas, resources and learning opportunities. ‌ Visit our website STAY CONNECTED ‌ ‌

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