Teacher Training at the British Council

Thinking about your own professional development? The TKT course starts very soon at the British Council Mexico. Don't miss out on this opportunity to receive the very best guidance from our Instructors. Registration is open from the 13th to the 23rd of October with the course due to start on Saturday 24th October (1430-1910). Places are limited so please do not delay.

BRING A FRIEND

If you are already studying at the British Council and bring a friend to register on a course during the next registration period (13th-24th October), you'll both receive a gift to help you improve your English. Contact us for more information on 5263 1900 or send an email to info@britishcouncil.org.mx.

Our How to... Workshops continue on Wednesday 7th October (17:00-19:00) with How to teach grammar through discovery. The following workshop is How to intergrate Equal Opportunities and Diversity into language teaching on November 4th. Remember you must register for these sessions. Call us for more information.

For more details about all of our Teacher Training opportunities, visit our website.

The world's global languages – English and football

At Premier Skills, students can practise their English while they learn about the players, fans, clubs, and activities behind the scenes in the Barclays Premier League. Articles, video and listenings on the site have ideas for teachers attached, and there are competitions for your students to enter.

Multiple Intelligences: What are you good at?

Everyone learns in different ways. If you know how your students learn, you can help them with their English. This lesson plan uses the MI theory – your students do a quiz to find out what intelligences they are strong in. Be spatial!?

Sing up!

The Sing Up site makes singing in school easy. They believe singing can change lives and build stronger communities. There's a Song Bank with hundreds of songs - all with audio tracks and activities, Teaching Tools, with lesson plans, teaching tips tutorials, and the Voice Box for warm-ups and workouts and quick ideas on how to get singing.

Lexical exploitation of texts

Have you heard of 'noticing'? We often use texts in the classroom to practise receptive skills or to introduce a topic or language point. But (near-)authentic texts are an excellent source of collocations and other lexical chunks. Now read how we can get students to notice them.

Presenting new language

Inductive learning is 'discovering' general principles from facts. Deductive learning is applying general principles to use. Which to use in the language classroom? Do we let our learners discover the rules, or do we teach them. Can we say "a bit of both", or are we being inconsistent? Paul Kaye investigates in this article.