TeachingEnglish newsletter 02 May 2018

TeachingEnglish - the global home for teachers 02 May 2018 Welcome to the TeachingEnglish newsletter This week we bring you a new publication, Having an EfECT: Professional development for teacher educators in Myanmar. For your adult and teenage learners this week, we have a fun listening activity based on the 'Big City Small World' audio soap, and a Bingo mingle activity. For younger learners, try this great revision activity - 'Buy and sell'. We feature a series of presentations by Hornby scholars from IATEFL 2018 around how technology is improving the quality of education in different countries. And finally, if you're looking for tips on managing behaviour, take a look at this week's featured blog post - '4 top tips for managing behaviour'. We hope you find these resources useful. Deb TeachingEnglish team Teaching kids 'Buy and sell' is a game that practises vocabulary and speaking skills in the context of buying and selling. It is a great revision activity for younger students. Basically, the students use vocabulary items, or standard sentences, as money. The teacher is a shopkeeper, the students are the customers. The students buy objects that they need to complete a drawing or plan. [Go to the activity]( Teaching teens In the event that you have students who are stressed out or just plain bored by the dull approach to teaching grammar, there's a game you can play that will lure students into a communication approach to what is being taught. It is just like bingo, but involves the students mingling and asking questions. The game can be adapted to practise many different language points and it is a good way to introduce a game element into the typical mingle or 'find someone who' activity. [Go to the activity]( Teaching adults This is a fun listening activity that can be used with adults and secondary groups. It exploits the 'Big City Small World' audio soap from LearnEnglish. There is a lead-in activity that students do individually (listening and deciding whether statements are true or false) and then a follow-on task where students write their own true or false worksheet based on a second listening. As a follow-up activity, get students to write a short biography of one of the characters they have listened to. [Go to the activity]( Development While many teacher and teacher educator development projects take place, their impact is not always fully measured, and when it is, it's often found to be minimal. In light of this, the English for Education College Trainers (EfECT) project in Myanmar took a thorough approach to both project design and impact assessment. Carrying out a wide range of pre-, mid- and post-training assessments, they worked hard to measure and understand the impact of their work. This paper looks at the rationale behind the project design, the methodology for assessing the impact of the project, and the results of those assessments. [Read more]( Events Our featured talk from IATEFL 2018 is a series of presentations by Hornby scholars around how technology is improving the quality of education in different countries. New technology has the potential to provide education systems with new solutions to issues of quality in teaching and learning. This presentation investigates how technology is being used in the very different contexts of Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, Uzbekistan and Bangladesh to support the assessment of English in schools, the in-service CPD of teachers, and students' access to learning materials. [Watch a recording of the presentations]( Magazine In this week's featured blog post, '4 top tips for managing behaviour', Corinna Keefe shares a few of the tricks she uses to make her classroom a happy, calm and productive space. Corinna says she learned everything she knows from other teachers, and when it comes to understanding behaviour, there's simply no substitute for experience. In this post, she shares some of the advice that has transformed her teaching. [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](