If you are a newly qualified or experienced English language teacher looking for support, we can provide you with teaching materials, tips and resources specifically designed by British Council teachers for use with young learners and teens.
Next update: 17 February 2012
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UK Educational System
As a language assistant you will probably have gone through (or you may still be going through) the British or Irish educational system so you will be able to tell your students about your experiences and give them first-hand information on how the UK educational system works.
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Gap Fill Gamble
This is a game to make any gap-fill task or cloze texts (reading tasks with gaps) more exciting. You need an envelope full of small bits of paper. Chop up a few pages of scrap paper for this. Students compete against one another in pairs.
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Improving discussion lessons
Have you ever felt you were asking all the questions about students’ opinions? Do you find you are doing more talking in a discussion than your class? Here are some tips to shift the task focus from you talking to them (they have to talk to each other) give them control of their own discussion.
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The Multi-Cultural Primary Classroom
You may find in your primary English class that you have children who struggle with the school language in their first year of primary school because they have a different home language. How will this affect your classroom when teaching English to 1st year primary? How can you cater to their needs?
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