LIVE ACTION FROM THE ELT 'OSCARS'

The British Council Innovation Awards, or Eltons, are awarded to outstanding products and services for learners and teachers of English. To catch up with all the action from this year's awards and find out how you can enter for the 2008 Innovation Awards, watch our Eltons movies.

A Visual Dictionary

InfoVisual offers lots and lots of images with clear and concise information, all sorted by themes. You can use them in your classroom materials, presentations and worksheets, but they're also very useful for self-study. Happy browsing!

Speech Therapy

Online resources for helping children with speech and learning difficulties are not easy to find. On Speech Therapy you'll find interesting ideas, clipart, worksheets, flashcards, games and useful links to help learners overcome their difficulties. Have a look!

A Taste of the Arts

The ArtsNet Minnesota is a project to encourage student understanding of the arts. It's divided into five interesting sections: environment, inner worlds, identity, what is art? and designing spaces and places, with lots of nice ideas for you and your learners. Happy learning!

Everybody loves his? her? their? 'Talking English'...

Would you say 'his', 'her' or 'their'? The English language doesn't have a gender-neutral third person pronoun. Intrigued? Here's a short explanation, and if you'd like to know more, check out this interesting article.

Making History Personal

Learning about the history of Modern Britain can be fun! Have a look at Your History of Britain and find out what ordinary people remember about the past five decades. For example, the 70s feature heatwaves, Chopper bikes, and Star Wars. There are videos and photos and testimonials. A lovely trip down memory lane...