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Have you ever been struggling on how to encourage students to personalise their own sentence instead of simply reciting contents from textbooks? Here are some suggestions.

 

Wonderful goody bags with teaching materials for our winners of Complex sentence challenge! Will you be the next one? Actively connect with us for polls and burning questions.

 

2015 IELTS test dates have been released, hurry up to register your IELTS test online now!

 
             
 

Teaching in Practice

Don't make it personal?

IELTS encourages students to talk about their world. How can we help more students do this? Read the article to find out how.

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Helping students to achieve their goals

Our Ask the Expert sessions take place every month. Find out what the session is and email us your ideas for helping students to be realistic in their goals..

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Winners! Complex sentence challenge

Coinciding with the IELTS 25 celebration month, we are proud to announce which sentences won the Complex Sentence Challenge and what will happen next.

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Using Images

 
 

Our Image Bank has complete lesson plans, images and audio files that you can use. The lesson, Out of time, contains a very good example of another personalisation technique. See if you can find it.

 
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Giving and getting feedback

 
 

Which statement best describes you?
a) I love getting constructive feedback

b) I hate getting constructive feedback

c) I love getting positive and constructive feedback

d) I hate getting positive and constructive feedback

e) What's positive/constructive feedback?

 
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Exam Services

2015 IELTS test dates have been released.

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New IELTS test center in Wuhan.

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Post-test service is incorporated into the registration website of The National Education Examinations Authority.

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The IELTS Attendance Ticket can be printed seven days before the paper test date.

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East Asia Assessment Research Grants – Deadline March 2015

In 2015, we invite educational institutions, teachers or researchers, in both the public and private sector, to apply for funding to undertake applied research projects in relation to English language assessment.

Visit our website for more information or contact us at arag_EA@britishcouncil.org.cn
Full information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.cn/en/exams/aptis/researchers

Exploring English: Free online course starts 2 February 2015

Do you or your students want to improve their communication skills and practise English with people from around the world? Would you or your students like to know more about British culture and life? On 2 February 2015, our hugely popular and free online course starts again.

Click HERE to sign up, and spread the word.
Burning Questions

Do you have questions about teaching, English or IELTS that you would really love an answer to? Send them to colin.barnett@britishcouncil.org.cn

Remember, we also have a Frequently Asked Questions list on www.chinaielts.org, for you to visit!

 

Please contact us for any questions: Colin.Barnett@britishcouncil.org.cn.