NOVEMBER 2008

What's new on onestopenglish?

With our heads still buzzing from the launch of The Road Less Travelled, Lesley Duffin, from Solihull College’s ESOL School, tells us how the onestopenglish podcasts have played a key part in developing her students' listening skills.

We get lots of requests for new ESP materials and it’s always interesting to find out the exceptional and specialized circumstances that many of you are teaching in. We’ll be expanding our ESP bank over the coming months, beginning with a new series of practical worksheets for nurses learning English.

And our new Author of the month is long-standing onestopenglish author Adrian Tennant, who is back with more of his fantastic pronunciation activities for November.

There's lots more great content - take your time to explore and enjoy another packed edition of onestopenglish!


	TEACHERS' DIARIES A week in Punakha: In part two of her monthly diary, Shiriin Barakzai describes the significant challenges she faces in teaching English to her classes of Bhuddist monks, starting with how to move on from rhythmic chanting. FEATURED SCHOOL Lesley Duffin, from Solihull College's ESOL School, tells us how the materials in the Audio and Podcasts section of onestopenglish have played a key part in developing her students' listening skills.


	NEW SERIES LAUNCH ESP bank: Nursing: A new series of practical worksheets for trainee or in-work nurses who wish to improve their English. Part 1, Pain assessment, is free for all users. SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT Business tasks: Probability: A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise talking about probability: to talk about things you expect or don’t expect to happen, and to say whether things are likely or unlikely.


	EXAMS ON ONESTOPENGLISH Choose from 300 exams resources. There is a comprehensive Cambridge ESOL section covering PET, FCE, CAE, CPE, TKT and BEC. We also offer practice materials for IELTS, TOEIC and TOEFL. All our practice materials are written by experienced exams writers. Browse the Exams section >> FREE SAMPLE TKT practice materials: This excellent teacher training series by Russell Whitehead can be used by TKT candidates and trainers to prepare for all modules of the exam. Download a sample lesson plan >>


	GRAMMAR & VOCAB ON ONESTOPENGLISH There are over 300 resources in this section. In addition to the free, in-depth grammar reference, there are also hundreds of lesson plans and worksheets in British and American English. Browse the Grammar & Vocab section >> FREE CONTENT Dictionary skills: A fantastic series of worksheets by Tim Bowen, aimed at training learners in dictionary use and developing their vocabulary. Read introductory article >>


	SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT Pronunciation activities: Part 10: Adrian Tennant offers a variety of activities designed to help students practise word stress. FREE CONTENT Video projects: Painting the school green: In this instalment of the integrated skills series by Jackie McAvoy, students produce a short video or audio recording of an eco-project for their language school.


	SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT Teaching skills: Managing children positively: Carol Read offers some key pointers for teaching young learners. FREE CONTENT From the archive: Classroom management: Expert authors give practical tips and advice on approaching problems such as discipline, large and mixed ability classes, classroom structure and error correction.


	SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT Onestop Phonics: The Letter Ww: This comprehensive lesson contains a flashcard for Walter Watermelon, a downloadable podcast, PDF worksheets and teaching notes by Rachel Finnie. Spot on news lessons for teens: Fair for all: Written especially for teenagers studying English, this news lesson is about the benefits of the Fairtrade system. FREE SAMPLE Onestop Phonics: This fantastic series, by Rachel Finnie, will provide teachers with comprehensive support for their phonics teaching, including tips for structuring phonics lessons, as well as teacher's notes, worksheets, audio and flashcards to use in class. Download a sample podcast and lesson plan >>


	SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT Weekly news lesson 111: Tourism curbed in bid to save Galápagos haven Should tourists be banned from environmentally threatened regions? FREE CONTENT Monthly news lesson: Au revoir to long lunch as French tighten belts 3,000 French restaurants and bars go bust in three months as people cut down on their spending.


	SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT Games and activities: Five new interactive games and activities are available this month. M Tunes: Incredible places: A song video and interactive games on the topic of incredible places. M Tunes: I Spy: A song video and interactive games on the topic of the alphabet. FREE SAMPLE M Tunes: An award-winning multimedia series for children featuring contemporary live-action and animated music videos. Each video is accompanied by a set of interactive games which are designed to practice and improve the skills, vocabulary and grammar presented in the songs. Download a sample song video and interactive games >>


	SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT The Road Less Travelled Season Two: Episode 2: The ice-cream commercial: Katie records an ice-cream commercial with some much-needed help from Michael. She also discovers who sent her flowers. FREE SAMPLE The Road Less Travelled: Season One: You can sample a taster from Season One here. Download a sample podcast and lesson plan >>

Adrian Tennant

Your English

	by Tim Bowen New: Idioms: animals A series of short articles investigating the intricacies of the English language: phrasal verbs, collocations, idioms and word grammar.

Competition Winner

	Lesson Share Caravan or cruise liner? Camilla Mayhew wins November's Lesson Share competition with this simple but effective introductory lesson, ideal for a first class.

Competition Winner

	Lesson Share Interrupting and disagreeing Simon Mumford wins the Lesson Share competition with a lesson on interrupting and disagreeing politely.

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