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What's happening on TeachingEnglish in December and January?

Find out what's happening across our TeachingEnglish channels in December 2024 and January 2025

Welcome to TeachingEnglish

Be part of the world’s largest online English teaching community. TeachingEnglish is a global programme for English teachers and teacher educators, drawing on UK and local expertise, and the unique insight and experience of the British Council. Build your professional network, share ideas and knowhow, and stay up to date with the latest research and innovations in teaching. You’ll find lesson plans, events and learning resources to support your practice, as well as new opportunities to help your career grow – whether you’re taking your first steps as an English language teacher, or your next steps as a teacher educator.

Podcast
Podcast
Listen to our TeachingEnglish podcast, our Climate Connection podcast, and our Education in Focus podcast.
Live events
Webinars
See all our upcoming webinars and recorded talks from experts in the field of English Language Teaching.
Online training courses
Training
Discover the short courses on our teacher development platform. All of our courses are free and run on specific dates during the year.

Practical classroom material

Get free lesson plans and activities to use with primary, secondary and adult English language learners

See all our classroom resources 

Latest events and opportunities

Professional development

You can find hundreds of resources to support your professional development as a teacher or a teacher educator or top up your professional development with our podcasts. All of our resources are mapped to the unique professional practices from our Continuing Professional Development frameworks. Explore our three featured professional practices below.

See all our professional development resources

Research and insight

Browse fascinating case studies, research papers, publications and books by researchers and ELT experts from around the world.

See our publications, research and insight