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TeachingEnglish newsletter
04 July 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
How do I format, organise and wrap up my speaking classes?
[This post]( some ideas to help your learners enjoy speaking continuously in the English language, while the role of the teacher becomes more of a facilitator, director and listener. Ideas include activities such as sentence-structuring games, workshops and on-the-spot topics. You may also be interested in an earlier post on the benefits of chatting - [Chat in English fluently](
Save water
This [lesson plan]( for teachers of teenage and adult students at level A2 and above is based on the theme of water shortage. Students will look at the causes of water shortages locally and internationally, discuss the use of water and give advice on conservation, and produce a poster giving advice on saving water in the home or in the school.
Chocolate: from the land to the hand
[Our latest lesson plan]( celebrates World Chocolate Day on 7 July. Suitable for teenagers and adults at B1 or B2 level, the lesson includes a variety of activities designed to help students understand who makes our chocolate and, importantly, who receives our money each time we buy a bar of chocolate. The lesson ends with a task asking students to make an advert highlighting the injustices which exist in the chocolate-making process.
Water
This [activity for younger learners]( is about the uses of water. It looks at how some of us do things with water every day, while some people in some parts of the world are not able to do them. The students will work as a whole class as well as in small groups. At the end of the lesson the students have a 'make and do' outcome to decorate the classroom.
Stories waiting to be told
'The power of an image often doesn't lie in the image itself, but in its ability to trigger images and stories in the minds of our students and create a need and a desire to communicate. There are three types of images that I find particularly powerful as teaching tools.' Read this [article by Ceri Jones]( to find out more. You can also watch a recording of a workshop - [Unleashing the power of images]( [Visit our website](
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