TeachingEnglish newsletter 04 April 2018

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 04 April 2018 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter With the 52nd Annual International IATEFL Conference and Exhibition fast approaching in Brighton, this week we invite you to join us again for IATEFL Online 2018. We also announce two interesting webinar events happening this week: 'Where next for teacher-research?' panel discussion, and 'TextInspector.com: An online tool for benchmarking texts to the CEFR'. For the classroom, we feature a lesson for primary learners 'Sustainable living: transport', and an activity for adults and teenagers to review or test vocabulary. And, finally, read our latest blog post 'Beyond language' to find examples of how you can go beyond content and language teaching to develop life skills and character. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids This lesson plan for teachers of primary learners at CEFR level A1 explores the theme of sustainable living in relation to transport. Learners will become aware of being able to make a difference in protecting the environment. The class works in small groups as well as a whole class. Learners carry out a class survey, make calculations about means of transport and produce a visual wall display illustrating the results of their survey. [Go to the lesson plan]( Teaching teens As teachers, our responsibilities to our youth include not only language or content teaching but also the education of future generations, and education goes beyond the coursebook. It includes life skills, personal development and character education, and these are areas for which the scope with higher-level students is tremendous because they have gone beyond basic language skills, and are ready to venture into the more abstract, or the more creative realms of learning. Read Zahra Zuhair's latest post ['Beyond language']( to find examples of how you can do this. Teaching adults 'Same as the teacher?' is an activity designed to be used as a vocabulary review or test of existing knowledge of the learners' vocabulary. It generates lots of words and is a lot of fun. The categories can be changed to suit the level and learner. There are two procedures to choose from, and an example worksheet for you to use or adapt. [Go to the activity]( Development To mark the end of the International Festival of Teacher-research in ELT, a panel of invited guests will discuss further possible enhancements to the teacher-research movement. Join this panel discussion 'Where next for teacher-research?' with commentary from Harry Kuchah, Melba Libia Cárdenas, Amy Lightfoot, Richard Smith and Daniel Xerri, as well as interaction with the audience, on Saturday 7 April at 15.00 UK time. [Read more and register for this event]( Events IATEFL Online Brighton 2018 - the 52nd Annual International IATEFL Conference and Exhibition is taking place in Brighton from 10 to 13 April. If you can't attend this year's IATEFL Conference, join us and follow the event online! Live coverage starts Tuesday 10 April 2018. Watch the conference plenaries and a selection of talks live. Further information will be available on our [homepage]( very soon. Magazine This webinar, taking place on Thursday 5 April at 16.00 UK time, examines a high-powered web-based text analysis tool called TextInspector.com, winner of the 2017 ELTons award for Digital Innovation. The tool allows users quickly to obtain reliable research-based information on the lexical composition and level of any text, to help them make key decisions about their text's difficulty and its overall level in relation to the CEFR. This webinar will show the potential of the tool for teachers, learners, materials designers and test developers. [Read more and register for this event]( You have received this newsletter because you registered on our website or previously showed interest in British Council news. If you wish to opt out of future newsletters, please unsubscribe [here](. British Council, 10 Spring Gardens, London, SW1A 2BN United Kingdom [SafeUnsubscribe™ {EMAIL}]( [Forward this email]( | [Update Profile]( | [About our service provider]( Sent by teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org in collaboration with [Constant Contact]( [Try it free today](