- Date
- 09 May 2019 - 14:56
Four steps to create signposts in your English language lesson
Show English language learners what they are gaining from your lesson, with teacher and trainer Ste Sharpe's four-step approach.
- Tags
- Teaching, English language
Voices
Voices
- Date
- 08 May 2019 - 17:01
What is transitional justice?
Noha Aboueldahab is a specialist in transitional justice, author, and fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. She tells us about her career, and why her work matters.
- Tags
- Justice, Conflict resolution, Study in the UK
- Date
- 02 May 2019 - 17:59
I learned Spanish as a teenager and it led to a career I love
Trainee secondary Spanish teacher Tom Ricketts didn't set out to have a career in languages, but his own teachers' expertise and a study year in Spain changed that.
- Tags
- Teaching, Languages, Professional development, Study outside the UK
- Date
- 29 April 2019 - 08:10
'There's a mystique around expertise' – how Dr Zoe Whitley built her career as a curator
Dr Zoe Whitley is Senior Curator, Hayward Gallery, London, and curator of Cathy Wilkes’ British Council commission at the British Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 2019.
- Tags
- Visual Arts
- Date
- 26 April 2019 - 08:23
Three games to recycle vocabulary in the English language classroom
Aoife McLoughlin won the TeachingEnglish blog award with 7 Fun Tasks for Classroom Debates. Here, she tells us her favourite classroom vocabulary games.
- Tags
- English language, Teaching, Teaching resources
- Date
- 24 April 2019 - 17:24
Make your English language lesson work for learners from a different culture
Chia Suan Chong is the author of Successful International Communication, and a regular columnist and award-winning resident blogger for monthly magazine English Teaching Professional.
- Tags
- Teaching, English language, Equal opportunities and diversity
- Date
- 18 April 2019 - 10:23
Mandarin language learners in China – a few things that surprised us
For UN Chinese Language Day, we asked British Council colleagues and programme participants in China what they find most surprising about learning Mandarin.
- Tags
- Languages, Study outside the UK, Work outside the UK
- Date
- 16 April 2019 - 11:19
How to explain scientific ideas – six simple tips from a communication expert
Wendy Sadler is a lecturer at Cardiff University, and the founder of the communication service science made simple. These are her six simple tips to become a science communicator.
- Tags
- Science
- Date
- 08 April 2019 - 13:00
Netflix and learn – six ways to teach English language skills with television
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.
- Tags
- English language, Teaching, Teaching resources
- Date
- 03 April 2019 - 13:57
Three ways to see what learners know in the English language classroom
Don Merritt, an English language coordinator and former British Council teacher, uses these low-preparation activities to understand what his class have learned.
- Tags
- English language, Teaching, Teaching resources