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Storytelling - benefits and tipsWe often give stories to our students to read, but how often do we tell them a story? This article looks at the benefits of storytelling and gives advice on performance skills |
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Motivating pupils to read 2This is the second of two articles that look at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating. |
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Motivating pupils to readThis is the first of two articles that look at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating. |
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Learning English through children's literatureThis article is about the British Council's Young Learners Centre in Paris and how they use children's literature in their teaching of English |
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Using drama texts in the classroomIn this article, I try to define what I mean by language learning through drama/theatre texts, outline some of the benefits it can bring to the language learning classroom and some of the differing methods and approaches that can be utilised to fully exploit the potential of drama and theatre texts. |
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Motivating pupils to readThis is the first of two articles that look at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating. |
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Motivating pupils to read 2This is the second of two articles that look at ways to apply the process model of motivation as proposed by Dornyei (2001) to a number of suggestions and techniques for making the challenge of reading authentic literature accessible and motivating. |
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Storytelling - benefits and tipsWe often give stories to our students to read, but how often do we tell them a story? This article looks at the benefits of storytelling and gives advice on performance skills |
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Using Dickens in classCharles Dickens was born in 1812 and the British Council has been helping to celebrate his 200th birthday. One way that we have done this is by making teaching materials which can help teachers introduce Dickens into their lessons. If you go to http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/dickens you will find a lot of material. There is a performance of readings from Dickens with music. This is 1 hour 27 minutes, and you could use it all, or sections. There is a series of short (up to 5 minutes) videos about some of the characters from Dickens’ novels, the ‘Heroes and Villains’, and there are 14 lesson plans with materials to use in your classes. Some English teachers teach English language only, and some teach English literature only, but many (for example in secondary schools around the world) probably have to cover both. Why would |
Using drama texts in the classroomIn this article, I try to define what I mean by language learning through drama/theatre texts, outline some of the benefits it can bring to the language learning classroom and some of the differing methods and approaches that can be utilised to fully exploit the potential of drama and theatre texts. |
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Complete poetry resuscitationA lot of teachers get the same look - the sigh, the rolling eye, the slump. "We're going to be doing poetry in the next few classes". You cringe through it, they cringe through it. |
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Using Dickens in classCharles Dickens was born in 1812 and the British Council has been helping to celebrate his 200th birthday. One way that we have done this is by making teaching materials which can help teachers introduce Dickens into their lessons. If you go to http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/dickens you will find a lot of material. There is a performance of readings from Dickens with music. This is 1 hour 27 minutes, and you could use it all, or sections. There is a series of short (up to 5 minutes) videos about some of the characters from Dickens’ novels, the ‘Heroes and Villains’, and there are 14 lesson plans with materials to use in your classes. Some English teachers teach English language only, and some teach English literature only, but many (for example in secondary schools around the world) probably have to cover both. Why would |
Using drama texts in the classroomIn this article, I try to define what I mean by language learning through drama/theatre texts, outline some of the benefits it can bring to the language learning classroom and some of the differing methods and approaches that can be utilised to fully exploit the potential of drama and theatre texts. |
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Storytelling - benefits and tipsWe often give stories to our students to read, but how often do we tell them a story? This article looks at the benefits of storytelling and gives advice on performance skills |
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Writing picture booksFollowing on from Sandie Mourão’s article referring us to the importance of picture books, and their application across a variety of age groups, we a |
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ibtissem19
Algeria
Good morning,
Well I just wanted to thank you a lot for this...
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mohanned said
Egypt
This article is worth reading.THE most important tip is that teachers should prepare an...
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Jules89
Spain
I love this article!
I teach in Madrid, and the places where I work I see so...
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