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March 2018

Teaching in Practice	Readers' Poll	Upcoming Events
Resource for Teaching	Exam Services	Burning Questions



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Teaching in Practice

‘What’s my word?’: a classroom activity to help with fluency

What activities do you have, in your teaching toolkit, that help students build spoken fluency? Read the article about a useful classroom activity that helps students with fluency by focussing on the sub-skill of paraphrasing and circumlocution.

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Building up confidence with new activities

Learn about how we can vary a classroom activity over a series of lessons and increase students’ receptiveness to possible new ways of working.

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Readers' Poll

As a teacher, what tends to be your approach to writing?
1) Write whole essays 2) Break it down into sections 3) Practise exam questions only 4) Avoid it as much as possible
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Upcoming Events

Join us at IATEFL 2018!

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Resource for Teaching

Writing for a Purpose

The British Council LearnEnglish website is packed full of free useful resources to help students improve their English proficiency, which will of course with time and practice help them to increase their IELTS band scores.

There is an entire section dedicated to writing for a purpose. Most of your students will be trying to improve their academic writing ability to produce quality assignments for university. This page has a number of sections that focus includes information about the types of writing and purposes for writing, as well as exercises to help your students write and examples from assignments that successful students have written.

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Wordshake game

Also within the British Council LearnEnglish website is a whole range of fun games and activities! Sometimes people overlook these as they may think they are only for children. But in fact, they can present a huge variety of ways to engage in learning and remembering English.

This ‘workshake’ activity is just one example. This can be very easily adapted into a great ‘warmer’ activity in the classroom: take a screenshot of the letter jumble and encourage students to work in pairs or small groups to generate as many words as they can in a time limit. The competitive element works really well to kick-start the class with great energy!

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Exam Services

New test centre in Changzhou University

IELTS test from April to December in 2018 is open for registration

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 onwww.chinaielts.org, for you to visit!

How can I prepare lower-level students for the test?

With lower-level students, the teacher should help the learners to identify their initial proficiency level and set realistic learning goals. With such students, practicing exam strategies without improving their English proficiency level rarely brings expected results. Therefore, lower-level students should first of all be engaged in developing their English proficiency in all four skills.

If you want to read more about levels and what we can realistically expect from students at different levels, look at some of the CEFR resources on http://teachingenglish.britishcouncil.org.cn/article/british-council-eaquals-core-inventory-general-english-0

To see how IELTS maps to the CEFR,visit https://www.ielts.org/ielts-for-organisations/common-european-framework

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