If you are a busy English language teacher or trainer looking for support and development materials for your classroom, we can help you with this weekly collection of links to free materials from our British Council websites for teachers.
The individual stages of the lesson can be varied or even omitted, but have been designed to move the class from short activities in which they build and explore their ideas on a topic, to longer activities allowing free expression of these ideas.
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Surely, by embracing the idea that teachers can be learners and that learners' lives are of much greater value than anything the publishing houses have to offer, dogme IS transformative and does seek social change.
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The following teacher products are an integrated, coherent set of products for global ELT sector reform and teacher development.
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To what extent have the 'practices of money-making' influenced what you do at your workplace? How do you cope with that?
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This 007 project is based on the Pre-Intermediate reader, Casino Royale, by Ian Fleming. Students write a dramatic scene for Bond, and create other great characters including their own villain.
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Using plays or drama in the language classroom can be both enormously rewarding and enjoyable for teachers as well as students. Here are some suggestions and guidance from Clare on how to get the best from your students.
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This story is based on the well-known children’s joke: Mum, am I a real polar bear? Of course, son. Then why am I so flipping cold?
The joke has been expanded into a repetitive story and provides an ideal context to practise the question, have I got?
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Our Guest Writer Scott Thornbury shares more wisdom from the "ancients". Read Scott's blog and leave him a message.
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When I write a new word up on the board, I rarely only write the word itself. I try to consider what extra useful information I should include. This is related of course to my aims but also in a more general way to what my learners need to know and how they can understand this.
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This is the second article in a three part series. In the first part we looked at needs analysis and how to define goals and objectives. This second part looks at how we can design a business English syllabus.
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The UK offers a range of qualifications to suit the varying needs of English teachers worldwide. They range from initial teaching qualifications through to more advanced teaching qualifications.
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Qualities of a good teacher are often discussed by teachers who are striving to be a success in teaching and to develop professionally. There is a variety of ideas and opinions. One of them is that a good teacher should be an actor.
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This 54-page booklet comprises a collection of papers with contributions from leading researchers on global citizenship in language education in several corners of the globe. It provides not only sound theoretical frameworks for investigation but also practical findings for application in diverse segments of ELT.
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This a simple way of recycling texts previously studied in class. This speaking activity gets students to think in English and use their memory, simultaneously. It works well with factual texts in EFL, texts used in CLIL lessons and quizzes related to any subject.
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Text messaging is becoming an increasingly popular form of communication in the UK and around the world, especially amongst young people. Students are often really keen to learn how to text in English and the students may also be interested in teaching you some of their ways of texting in their language.
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