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.
Check out the knowledge wiki. This feature of the site helps you to understand ELT related jargon. We have 5 new words added this week.
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Now you can create a blog on teaching English to provide a commentary or news on different aspects of teaching English or you may use your blog to reflect on a more personal level (like an online diary) about your experience of teaching English in your country.
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The opening and closing sentences in each paragraph are very important in creating a text that hangs together properly. Try giving learners a version of the text from which these sentences have been removed.
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This activity gets the students motivated with a competitive revision race. The activity comes complete with a classroom worksheet for you to photocopy
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The following pages help you develop skills and awareness in more specialist areas such as teacher education, evaluation, materials and curriculum design, English for specific purposes and young learners.
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Hi Colleagues, I'd be thankful if you could share with me your ideas regarding teaching writing skills for IELTS academic applicants
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Many teachers are keen to use poems in the language classroom other think it is a waste of time. Find out what other teachers think and give us your opinion.
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Hi colleagues, I'd be thankful if you could share with me your ideas regarding teaching writing skills for IELTS academic applicants (I'm teaching some aiming for a band score of 7).
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This is a great way of getting students speaking, with an added fun element. All you need are a few long pieces of string and some speaking topics.
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This tip is based on a story which is an adaptation of the famous poem by American poet John Godfrey Saxe. There is a series of activities related to the story for young learners to follow, including a picture dictation, vocabulary games and a rhyme.
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Check out the knowledge wiki. This feature of the site helps you to understand ELT related jargon. We're adding 5 new words each week to help you develop your teaching vocabulary
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Now you can interact with the writers of our articles and send in comments.
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In this article I'd like to look at more ways of priming and recycling. After this, I hope you will be able to apply these techniques to a range of texts.
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If you've got a confident class with a passion for debate this activity could be the ideal way to let learners get off a bit of steam.
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This programme introduces the Teaching Speaking series by looking at some of the challenges that English language teachers face around the world.
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I think we can be helped by our brighter students. Is it right to ask them to teach something to their peers, and how can they do that?
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Many teachers are keen to use poems in the language classroom other think it is a waste of time.
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Dear everyone, as teachers, I think we can be helped by our brighter students. Is it right to ask them to teach something to their peers, and how can they do that?
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This lesson plan offers your students plenty of speaking practice, including a 'find someone who' exercise, a quiz, and an interview roleplay. There are also guidelines for students to create their own film storylines, with the potential for them to perform the first scenes.
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