TeachingEnglish newsletter 20 June 2018

TeachingEnglish newsletter 20 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 English in Early Childhood: Language Learning and Development - free online course Discover how very young children learn English as an additional language and how you can help them progress. Study online two hours per week for six weeks for free. This course for parents and practitioners will explore how young children learn English, and investigate many more aspects of early childhood learning and development. [Find out more](. All's well that ends well: three activities to encourage reflection Perhaps one of the most important things that learners can do at the end of the lesson is reflect on what they have learned and their own contribution to the lesson. Read this latest blog post: [All's well that ends well: three activities to encourage reflection]( learn about three simple ways this can be done.  Let's play online! Playing a game is like living a short life with a very happy end: if the game is interesting, engaging and meets the educational goals, each participant is enriched with either new skills developed or existing skills enforced, or, on the part of a teacher, with a feeling of fulfilment and accomplishment. So is it possible to adapt good old language games to play them online? Read [Alexei Kiselev's post]( about how he has adapted and used games in online one-to-one teaching via Skype with the help of some other digital tools.  Setting up in the young learner classroom [This article]( looks at the techniques involved in setting up tasks in the young learner classroom, with suggestions of how to implement them. As teachers, we want children to be engaged and excited to do an activity, we want them to behave so that they learn by doing it, and we also want them to feel comfortable and confident knowing what they have to do and how to do it. It is therefore vital that we value the setting up of this activity by considering and planning this stage. Drama techniques to get them talking Drama techniques which focus on getting across meaning with the body, as well as words, are very useful for the language classroom. Clare Lavery suggests three activities for older learners to encourage creativity of thought, appeal to reluctant speakers and the more 'physical' learner, and reinforce understanding of language as a way to communicate meaning. [Read more.]( [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](