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 lesson, suitable for pre-intermediate students, follows on from presentation and controlled practice of the future ‘will'. It is an extended role-play activity which is simple to set up and fun for the students.
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In this article Mario Rinvolucri explores a range of story telling techniques that he uses in the classroom and gives some insights into why these techniques are effective.
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Organised by the British Council and IATEFL’s Young Learners & Learning Technologies Special Interest Groups. A conference for all teachers of English. This conference will look at three of the most important topics in the rapidly changing world of English Teaching.
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I have tried to find the books, but it's quite difficult to find them. Is there any reference books that related with my topic from all of you?
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Three stories to make you think, set in the near future, 100 years and 1500 years from now. The end of spam - a curse or a blessing? Are people robots? What happens to the last brain in the world?
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This is a good activity for restless younger classes. Although it may take a little bit of time for them to get used to it, it is fun, simple to organise and involves a competitive team element. It could be used as a warmer or to break up more serious work in lessons.
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This can be done over a series of lessons as part of an ongoing project, dedicating each lesson to a different insect, or otherwise as one lesson. Children love squeamish subjects so you may find that they want you to extend what you originally planned to do. You’ll find that insects are a great basis for teaching several language areas such as colours, numbers, food and body parts.
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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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