Understanding your context – webinars

Join us on 17 April 2026 for two inspiring webinars that will help you ensure your teaching is relevant to your learners and effective in your context. 

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About this event

In the first event in our series of webinars on practical approaches for your teaching context, two of our course tutors will introduce strategies for making your teaching relevant to your learners, your classroom and your wider context. The second session focuses on designing projects that celebrate local culture and cultural exchange while building communication, teamwork and creativity. These activities strengthen learner confidence and place an understanding of culture and context at the heart of your classroom. 


About the sessions

Session 1: Understanding your context: A practical introduction

Speaker

Rabia Shafi and Nadia Tuati

Time and date

12.00-13.00 (UK time) Friday 17 April 2026

Session information

In this practical introduction to the professional practice Understanding your context, our course tutors will explore how you can adapt materials and resources to suit your learners' needs, interests and backgrounds. They will share resources and strategies for teaching large, mixed-level classes. You will find out how your learners' home languages and cultures can become valuable resources in the classroom.

Download Rabia and Nadia's handout


Session 2: Culture, confidence and communication in the EFL classroom 

Speakers

Claudia Tumba

Time and date

13.15-14.15 (UK time) Friday 17 April 2026

About the session

This workshop will give you practical ideas to help you celebrate culture in your classroom through collaborative projects. You will learn how to design a clear project framework for learners to present cultural content, which will help them develop communication skills, collaboration and creativity.   Including cultural content in your classes can encourage empathy and intercultural understanding as well as boosting learner confidence. Join us to find out more! 

Download Claudia's handout


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About the speakers

Rabia Shafi is one of our Courses for Teachers Facebook group tutors. She's a teacher educator and materials developer with over 20 years of experience working with educators across Asia, the Middle East, the Americas and Africa. She holds an MPhil in Applied Linguistics. Rabia designs and implements training programmes for teachers and teacher educators in public schools. She lives and works in Pakistan.   

Nadia Tuati is also one of our Courses for Teachers Facebook group tutors. She's a teacher and teacher educator working for the British Council in Libya. She delivers professional development workshops for teachers in Libya, Jordan and across the MENA region. She has a master's degree in Theoretical Linguistics and also works as a lecturer at the University of Tripoli.

Claudia Tumba is a passionate EFL educator teaching at universities in South Korea. With over ten years of teaching experience, she brings creativity and empathy into the English classroom. Her work centres on project-based learning, cultural celebration and helping learners move from anxiety to confidence when using English. Outside the classroom, she is an author, actor and speaker who enjoys exploring how creativity can transform language learning. She has given webinars before for TeachingEnglish, including on How storytelling transforms learning.

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How to watch the webinar

Our webinars are free. They take place in Zoom events. Click the 'Register to join us on Zoom' button to register to join live. You can also watch the event on our Facebook or YouTube page.

Webinar recordings

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Certificates and handouts

Certificates of attendance are available for all attendees. You will receive a 'Thank you for attending' email after the webinar if you registered and watched on Zoom. You should receive this within 72 hours of the live event. 

You should download the certificate to your computer. Once the certificate is saved to your computer, open it and type your name on the certificate. We recommend using Google Chrome or Internet Explorer to do this. You cannot do this from a mobile device.

A handout for each session will be provided with useful links and resources related to the session. You can download the handout from this page after the event.

Code of conduct – participants

Please be respectful at all times to other participants and the presenter. Our webinars are freely available to attend by participants in all countries. Please be aware that comments you make in the general chat may have a negative impact on other participants and their enjoyment of the webinar.

Do not use insulting or offensive language or comments towards other participants or the presenter.

Do not make comments that include cultural references or political references that may be offensive or upsetting to other participants or the presenter.

Any offensive or insulting comments will be deleted, and the participant making the comment will be removed from the webinar.

Do not share any personal information in the general chat that may result in other participants contacting you. This includes addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.

Do not share links to your website or any websites that you are promoting for the purposes of making money.

Comments that include links to paid-for websites for the sole purpose of promotion will be deleted, and you may be removed from the webinar.

Please use the Q&A to ask the presenter questions that are related to the theme or topic of the webinar only. If participant responses to questions are permitted, you should only make comments that are relevant to the question being asked.

Disclaimer

The views and opinions expressed in our live events are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the view or position of the British Council.

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