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Dear English teachers,
The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be one of the biggest events ever held in the history of sport. With 26 sports played by 10,000 athletes from 204 countries between July 27th and August 12th at 26 different venues looked after by 9,000 police officers with a global audience of more than 4 billion people 24 hours a day!
Interested in integrating London 2012 into your teaching? Then click here for more activities than you can imagine for your classes!
English Team
British Council Turkey
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 | Dickens 2012 |
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Dickens 2012 is a major celebration of events and activities to mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens that falls on February 7th 2012. Find out more about both the programme and British Council produced teaching materials which are free to download.
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What do your learners know about football? What do you know? Test out your and their vocabulary with this lesson plan and its worksheets, which is part of the English for the Games series: lesson plans based on Olympic and Paralympic sports.
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 | Not unit 5! |
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You might be familiar with this exclamation - do you ever open a coursebook and wonder how you're going to get your students talking? In this article, Luke Meddings argues that coursebooks often constrain us as teachers and lead us to missing opportunities in the classroom.
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 | Research papers |
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| Our new series on the big issues in ELT begins with a paper on Global Practices in Teaching English to Young Learners. You can download this paper for free to read about the research and five key recommendations for future action to support teaching English to young learners.
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 | Evernote |
Evernote is not aimed specifically at language learners, but it's a very handy learning tool. It allows you to save ideas, texts, examples of language, recordings, photos, etc. on your computer, phone or pretty much any mobile device. You can organise and retrieve the information as you like - well worth recommending to your learners!
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 | Digital literacy |
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| The latest in our Seminars series sees Gavin Dudeney answer the question 'What is digital literacy?' He also talks about its implications for us as teachers, and gives you lots of practical ideas to try out in your own classrooms. |
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 | If you are a learner or teacher of English, LearnEnglish has something for you. |
| Visit our Teach English pages to find out more about our work in Turkey. |
| Teaching English - produced by the BBC and British Council as a resource for teachers |
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ELTeCS - a professional network helping teachers work together across borders to share knowledge and improve practice in their regions
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| "The British Council is not responsible for the contents of any external sites." |
