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Date
18 July 2016 - 12:30

Get your students to reflect on their learning using mobiles

Lucy Norris and Professor Agnes Kukulska-Hulme explain how teachers can help language students get on top of their own learning by using mobile phones.

Tags
English language, Teaching, Teaching resources, Technology
'The English language is truly global and the opportunities to read or listen to it are endless'.
Date
10 June 2016 - 07:52

Five habits of effective English language learners

What habits should English language learners adopt to help them meet their goals? Martin Sketchley, latest winner of the British Council's Teaching English blog award, gives us his top five.

Tags
English language, Teaching, Teaching resources
English language teaching is evolving all the time, particularly alongside advances in technology. Photo (c) Mat Wright
Date
01 June 2016 - 14:14

Ten innovations that have changed English language teaching

What innovations in English language teaching (ELT) have had the biggest impact on your teaching? Teaching expert Chia Suan Chong lists her top ten.

Tags
Teaching resources, Teaching, English language
'Does every single writing error need to be corrected?' Image (c) Daniel Novta, licensed under CC BY 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
02 March 2016 - 09:34

Activities for correcting writing in the language classroom

How can teachers encourage learners to correct their own writing? Second-time winner of TeachingEnglish blog award, Cristina Cabal, offers a few tried and tested error-correction activities.

Tags
English language, Teaching resources
Date
17 September 2015 - 03:59

Ten ways to support your child’s English-learning at home

As the British Council opens a new Learning Time with Shaun & Timmy centre in Mexico for two- to six-year-olds, Sarah Reid offers some useful tips for supporting your child’s learning.

Tags
English language, Teaching, Teaching resources
'Resource creators are not just producing the same old stuff year on year.'
Date
29 May 2015 - 08:09

What's new in English language teaching?

Rachael Roberts looks at the latest trends ahead of the ELTons Awards for innovation in English language teaching resources, live-streamed on 4 June 2015.

Tags
English language, Teaching, Teaching resources
Try your learners with a fun exchange of insults from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Art (c) Folger Shakespeare Library
Date
22 April 2015 - 17:46

How to make Shakespeare easy for English language learners

Have you ever had difficulty relating Shakespeare to learners of English? Tutor and resource writer Genevieve White comes to the rescue, in time for Shakespeare Day today.

Tags
English language, Arts, Literature, Teaching, Teaching resources, Theatre, Shakespeare
'My most valuable asset in setting a pilot book group in motion was local knowledge.' Photo (c) vincen-t licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
30 January 2015 - 11:38

What to look out for if you want to run a book group

Setting up and running a book group is a different experience in every country. Miriam Vaswani, who organised a book group at the British Council in Tunis, explains how she did it.

Tags
English language, Teaching resources, Teaching, Arts, Literature
'For some of the exercises, all you need is a pack of post-its.' Photo (c) Angela, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 and adapted from the original.
Date
22 December 2014 - 12:51

Fun ways to teach English collocations

Do your students have difficulty deciding which words go together in English? Tim Warre, who won our most recent Teaching English blog award, lists his most effective tips.

Tags
Teaching, English language, Teaching resources
Original illustration for How can film help you teach or learn English?
Date
21 October 2014 - 15:40

How can film help you teach or learn English?

Teacher and author Kieran Donaghy tells us why film is such a good resource and recommends useful websites in one of our top five articles of all time, illustrated by artist Jamie Johnson.

Tags
English language, Teaching, Teaching resources
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