Throughout history there has been a strong need to express words clearly and time has shown that even the simplest mistake in pronunciation has led to the loss of life as well as great confusion.

Young learners can now publish their writing on the New LearnEnglish Kids site: http://learneng

Introduction
This is a another simple pairwork activity that can be used with low level groups to provide practice in countable and uncountable nouns, in the question structure – How much … is there? /How many … are there? and the corresponding answers There is … / There are … and food vocabulary. The lesson is designed for adults but could also be used with older teenagers.

Level: Intermediate / Upper Intermediate

In this lesson, learners read about the different countries of the UK, either online as a webquest or in paper form.

Asking questions is a natural feature of communication, but also one of the most important tools which teachers have at their disposal. Questioning is crucial to the way teachers manage the class, engage students with content, encourage participation and increase understanding.

This is the first of our British Council Seminar videos. The seminars encourage debate on areas of contemporary interest in the field of English language teaching and learning.    

Level - Pre -Intermediate and above

This lesson gives students the opportunity to find out about the political system in the UK and to discuss the attitude of many young people towards politics.

This is a small group, free discussion activity aimed at pre-intermediate students and above, in which students are asked to decide which animals should be selected to go aboard a space-craft in order to safeguard their survival. Time: About thirty minutes.

All academic institutions have to demonstrate their commitment to providing effective teaching. Peer observation has an important part to play in this process.

In this activity students listen to information about two people who emigrated to Dublin. They then have to create profiles of other immigrants based on the text from the listening.

Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Memphis have released a new study on linguistic evolution that challenges the prominent hypothesis for why languages differ thr

Level - Pre-intermediate and above

This lesson takes a process approach to developing writing skills. It is staged so that students are guided through the processes of collecting information and deciding how they will structure it within the text before they begin to write.

You can watch videos and listen to children talk about their lives on the British Council’s NEW LearnEnglish Kids site for young learners.

Fifth Conference on Humanistic Studies 'Unity and Diversity: Language and Culture'
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