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.
This is a speaking activity based on the theme of being stranded on a desert island. It is suitable for pre-intermediate students upwards. Students design an island, create rules for it and decide who gets to live on it by way of interview.
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Pre-selecting, grading and presenting business vocabulary - Is this the way forward? Traditionally curriculum developers and materials writers have assumed it would be worthwhile to make a selection out of a set of to-be-learned vocabulary items that they would then grade
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An international conference on Bilingual Acquisition in Early Childhood will be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from 11-12 December 2008. The conference is organized by the newly established Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre at CUHK
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Paula will be keeping a blog, contributing to discussions and telling us about teaching in Argentina. You can read Paula's biography and an interview with her.
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This lesson is aimed at lower intermediate students. It could be adapted for use with higher and lower levels. This particular lesson uses an adapted version of ‘The Emperor's new clothes' by Hans Christian Andersen, but other stories can be used in the same way.
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This is a simple total physical response game which is ideal for younger learners, as a warmer, a way to check understanding, or just a fun break from more serious work.
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This lesson is all about the Royal Family. From a game to introduce family vocabulary to describing the relationships between various members of the British royalty, it covers an important area of vocabulary in context. There are also speaking and discussion activity ideas, including getting students to draw and explain their own family tree.
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We are very pleased to welcome Mario Rinvolucri as our fourth Guest Contributor. You can read and discuss Mario's first article on comprehension questions, and also follow and comment on his blog entries on the site.
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How useful are comprehension questions?
If it were not felt to be a sensible procedure why would course book writers supply comprehension questions in large quantities?
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The point of this simple exercise is for you to realise and for the students to realise how creative and varied their responses are to simple words.
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What I need to understand is shall I be forming groups of students having similar English speaking skills or of students with different
calibre in English.
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Bonfire Night is celebrated throughout Britain on the evening of the 5th of November with firework displays.
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I am required to find a song which teaches a grammar item. I will use it for some young learners. I couldn't find any appropriate one.
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A popular game for higher levels which requires good imagination but can be excellent for fluency.
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This tip gives you some ideas for a speaking and listening lesson for very young learners. There's a song, story-telling, and other related activities to help the children practise the vocabulary area and sequencing skills.
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