TeachingEnglish newsletter 06 June 2018

TeachingEnglish newsletter 06 June 2018 Welcome to this week's TeachingEnglish newsletter. We've selected a range of practical resources to help you in the classroom and ideas to help you with your professional development. We hope you find them useful. The TeachingEnglish team Watch the ELTons Awards Ceremony live online The British Council ELTons Awards Ceremony and red carpet interviews will take place live and online on Monday 18 June, 17.30-20.30 UK time. Now in their sixteenth year, these British Council awards are the only international awards to recognise innovative products, services and research in English language teaching globally. [Find out more about the event](. Using students' mother tongue in the English classroom: pros and cons Together with drilling, grammar and other ingredients of English teaching, translation has been too easily demonised for too many years. However, it is clear that the use of L1 has to be restricted - in other words, allowed only when benefits clearly counteract drawbacks. In [this blog post]( Loli Iglesias provides some guidelines to consider on the use of L1 inside the English classroom. At the beach Once it starts to get warm you can easily start to talk about holidays and possible destinations with your young learners. The beach is always a popular destination, and young children can generally, depending on where you are, relate to the excitement and freedom associated with playing on the beach. Take a look at this [collection of fun, creative activities and resources]( to captivate your younger learners' imagination. Selecting and adapting learning resources for teachers: ensuring relevance to context If you are asked to give a workshop or recommend relevant resources for teachers or teacher education providers (e.g. a school director or university department co-ordinator), you need to ensure you select resources that are relevant and useful to the specific teaching context. To inform your decision, you will need to gather data and analyse it. The steps in [this article]( illustrate how to do this. Routine is important! Ice-breakers, warmers, fillers, beginning- and end-of-the-lesson activities are all very important ingredients of the daily routine. Students, especially young children, love rules and regulations; they respond to the customary order of things even when it seems they are completely unruly. In [this post]( Nina MK shares her suggestions on how to manage different stages of the lesson. How often do you use our classroom resources? All the time [Select]( Quite a lot [Select]( Occasionally [Select]( Almost never [Select]( Never [Select]( [Visit our website]( STAY CONNECTED [[Facebook] ]( [[Twitter] ]( British Council | 10 Spring Gardens, London, SW1A 2BN United Kingdom [Unsubscribe {EMAIL}]( [Update Profile]( | [About our service provider]( Sent by teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org in collaboration with [Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.]( [Try it free today](