Voices
Teacher Melissa Thomson shares her tips for turning chat show games into grammar and vocabulary practice.
British Council teacher and trainer Melissa Thomson shares her favourite digital tools to connect penpals who are learning English.
Teacher Mary Gorman shares 12 tips to improve your teaching practice.
British Council teacher Siham Bouzourene tells us how she turned plastic bottles into learning tools for her primary English language class in Algeria.
Sonia Contreras and Cristina Sanchez are librarians at the British Council Young Learner Resource Centre in Madrid. They tell us how to set up storytelling events, writing clubs and more.
Aoife McLoughlin won the TeachingEnglish blog award with 7 Fun Tasks for Classroom Debates. Here, she tells us her favourite classroom vocabulary games.
How can teachers of English create learning material with streaming services? Melissa Thomson, a British Council teacher and trainer based in Bilbao, describes her top six approaches.
Don Merritt, an English language coordinator and former British Council teacher, uses these low-preparation activities to understand what his class have learned.
Substitute teaching can be demanding. We asked Daniel Vincent, a teacher of English at the British Council in Madrid, how to plan and deliver these lessons with confidence.
Ste Sharpe mentors newly-qualified teachers of English. This is his advice for building rapport with adult and teenage learners, for teachers who are new to the classroom.