TeachingEnglish newsletter 25 April 2018

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 25 April 2018 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter This week we have a new and topical lesson about the Windrush generation for teens and adults. We also have an integrated skills lesson on the theme of maths prodigies for teenagers and a fun low-resource game for your younger logical-mathematical thinkers. We also invite you to take part in a survey, and possibly an interview, focused on teacher perceptions of and decisions about assessment. Our featured talk from IATEFL 2018 this week is also on the topic of assessment: 'English assessment - the issues and how we might overcome obstacles' by Gaynor Evans and Jamie Dunlea. And, finally, learn more about how to capitalise on the differences in ESL classrooms by reading this week's featured blog by Sajit M Mathews. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids Mastermind is a great game for those logical-mathematical thinkers. You start by thinking of a word (start with a four-letter word until you get the hang of it, then you can do it with longer words) and mark four lines on the board, like you would in a game of hangman. Students guess, but instead of traditional hangman, you use a key to show them how close they are to the target word. It's a fun game which your younger learners will want to play again and again. [Read more]( Teaching teens This lesson offers a variety of activities based on child maths prodigies. First, there is a warm-up activity that reviews the names of school subjects and introduces the topic of education. Then the students prepare questions to ask the teacher about their education and life. There are two reading texts about two well-known maths prodigies, which students will read and compare, and then check comprehension by completing timelines. Students will then write their own timelines to talk about their lives and practise past tenses. [Go to the lesson plan]( Teaching adults The Windrush generation lesson uses a very simple poem to convey the feelings of the Caribbean immigrants who arrived in Britain in the 1940s and 50s. Students will create their own poem, as well as discussing problems faced by immigrants and writing a letter imagining themselves as new immigrants. The plan is suitable for students aged 12 years and over at B1 level and above. [Go to the lesson plan]( Development The University of Huddersfield, in conjunction with the British Council, is surveying teacher perceptions of assessment and how teachers come to their assessment decisions. We hope you can help by completing a short questionnaire, which should take approximately 20 minutes. We would also like to interview some of the people who have completed the questionnaire. The interviews will be conducted via Skype or similar at a mutually convenient time. If you are willing to be interviewed, please leave your email address at the end of the survey. [Find out more]( Events IATEFL Online 2018 has now ended, but you can still watch talks you may have missed. This week our featured talk is 'English assessment - the issues and how we might overcome obstacles' by Gaynor Evans and Jamie Dunlea. This talk focuses on baseline studies of speaking and listening assessment in Bangladesh, and discusses research findings, comparisons between CEFR and learning outcomes, and possible approaches to overcoming issues. [Watch a recording of this talk]( Magazine Like most Indian classrooms, Sajit M Mathews's classrooms were a cross-section of the larger, diverse Indian society. Students from varied cultural, religious, social and economic backgrounds mix in the classroom space. As a teacher, he strongly believes that this diversity can be capitalised on in order to build a society of citizens who treat each other with respect. Read this blog post, 'Capitalising on the Differences in ESL Classrooms', to learn of a few ways of doing this. [Read more]( 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](