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Talking English

 

Welcome to the British Council Morocco's 63rd edition of Talking English - our  newsletter for English language teachers.   

 

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  Board games


Download and print out this series of free board games for the classroom to help your students with their spelling and knowledge of phonetics. Games include 'Phonetic dominoes' and 'Mistakes and ladders'!

 

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Lexical notebooks or vocabulary cards?

As far as vocabulary learning is concerned, it is important to record new language in a way that is memorable and manageable. But how do you do that? Get some ideas from this article!

 

The fastest and the slowest

In this lesson students practise speaking, reading and writing while talking about the fastest and slowest animals. The grammar focus is comparatives and superlatives with quantifiers. Students also learn some unusual animal vocabulary!

 

2012 is Great!

2012 is a great year for Britain, what with the Jubilee, the Olympic and Paralympic Games... Why not download these lesson plans, worksheets and posters all about Britain to use with your students?

A dogme lesson with Luke Meddings

Watch Luke Meddings teaching a lesson with a group of English students in the UK... and then watch a Q & A session which followed, in which Luke answers questions on how he carried out the lesson. 

Word on the Street

The second series of Word on the Street is now out on LearnEnglish! You can follow the adventures of brother and sister Stephen and Ashlie around the UK in these short films, and also watch some short films which focus on the language Stephen and Ashlie use.


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