Core Inventory for General English – now with posters

The British Council and EAQUALS joined together in 2010 to create a core curriculum inventory for the English language based around key language points for each level of the CEFR. You can now download the Core Inventory posters for levels A1-C1 for your staffroom or classroom.

Global English and the teaching of pronunciation

The emergence of so many different kinds (or 'varieties') of international English has caused a number of linguists to question the use of native speaker pronunciation models in the teaching of English. This article presents research into the pronunciation of global English and gives some teaching implications.

TeachingEnglish mobile

Feel like browsing some lesson ideas while you're on the move? You can now access a specially designed version of TeachingEnglish on your mobile phone which includes our most popular content. Why not go to the site on your phone or other mobile device and have a look? Read more.

60 Second Word Challenge

60 Second Word Challenge is the latest British Council app for learners of English, and is now available for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It's a fun vocabulary quiz with 10 topics, three difficulty levels and 600 questions. Download it now while it’s still free!

ELT Pics

ELT pics is a fabulous resource for English teachers: photos that they can use in their teaching as they like, clearly organised in different categories. The pictures are all supplied by teachers - find out how you can use them and help here.

British Council Mexico

Teacher Training Courses

The next TKT course starts in August. and will be covering Module 1: 'Language and background to language learning and teaching'

We will also be running Module 4:CLIL ( Content and Language Integrated Learning) module for the TKT.

Please call  5263 1900 to arrange an appointment.for placement testing and registration, or email info@britishcouncil.org.mx.

How to Workshops

Our next "How to" session for teachers in Mexico will be at British Council Mexico, Lope de Vega on Wednesday 6th July, 5:30 – 7:00pm and will look at: ‘How to exploit project work and vocabulary building with Young Learners’ The session is free and open to all teachers. If you are interested in attending, please send a mail to info@britishcouncil.org, or call 5263 1900 for more information. Please note that this is the last session of this academic year and we will start again in August.

Thanks to suggestions and feedback from those who attend these sessions, we are now placing a more YL focus on these sessions and they will taking place on different days each month so that as many of you have the opportunity to attend as possible. We will publicise the sessions three months in advance, as we have been doing recently, so that people can plan their attendance. The website can be found here: http://www.britishcouncil.org/es/mexico-how-to-workshop.htm  Participants can also request a poster for each session, to put on their school notice board.