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Talking English

 

Welcome to the British Council Morocco's 55th edition of Talking English - our  newsletter for English language teachers.   

 

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Dickens 2012 

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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Football

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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.

 
Not unit 5!
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.

 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 suggests - in a pdf download - lots of practical ideas for you to try out in your own classrooms.
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