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LEARNING 2003-2004
The international newsletter about learning English with BBC World Service

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LEARNING 2003-2004
CONTENTS Whats in issue 9 of Learning English newsletter plus how to tune in to programmes 2 WELCOME Celebrating 60 years of English teaching on BBC World Service RADIO Plan your listening week a roundup of the new programmes coming up for learners and teachers RADIO Putting the audience at the heart of the programme RADIO Building links with the audience ONLINE Click on the links and learn an introduction to the Learning English website ONLINE Learning English website focus on WATCH AND LISTEN video, audio and text-based activities for learners ONLINE Make friends online a step by step guide to using the Learning English MESSAGE BOARDS ONLINE For teachers by teachers an introduction to the teaching English website IN THE CLASSROOM Choosing and using whats right for your students a teachers guide to using BBC Learning English radio, online and printed materials in the classroom DOWNLOADS Resources for learners and teachers to print off from the Learning English and teaching English websites 3 4 5 6 7

Tips on tuning in
There are a number of ways in which you can listen to BBC World Service Learning English radio programmes in your area. ON YOUR RADIO
Depending on where you are in the world, you can hear Learning English radio programmes on short wave, medium wave or FM. FREE RADIO PROGRAMME SCHEDULES Details about Learning English radio programmes you can hear in your area and where to find them on your radio are contained in a series of programme schedules. ON THE LEARNING ENGLISH WEBSITE Programme schedules can be downloaded from the Learning English website at: www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish/radio/ highlights.shtml BY EMAIL Programme schedules can be delivered to you via an automatic email service. Send a blank email to: eltradio@bbc.co.uk BY POST To receive a free programme schedule by post, write to us at the address opposite. If you are a subscriber to Learning English newsletter, you should have received a programme schedule with this newsletter.

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ON THE INTERNET

www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish
BBC World Service programmes are also carried round the clock on the internet. From August 2003, you can listen to some of the previous weeks Learning English radio programmes using the BBC World Service Radio Player. Simply click on the LISTEN TO BBC WORLD SERVICE START RADIO PLAYER button at the top of the Learning English website home page and select Learning English from the list.

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WELCOME

BBC World Service celebrates 60 years of teaching English

There has never been more for learners and teachers of English from BBC World Service. David Thomas, Managing Editor of the Learning English output, introduces some of the current highlights.
Welcome to another packed edition of the Learning English newsletter, your guide to what BBC World Service is providing for learners and teachers of English over the coming year.There are some new services, but everything we do is focused on giving you free access to authentic, up to date, topical English. Its an important year for us in the Learning English team, as were celebrating 60 years of English teaching from BBC World Service. The first radio lessons were in 1943, helping listeners with grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation in just a few parts of the world. Listening back to the archives it seems everyone was expected to talk like a member of the royal family.The clipped pronunciation sounds very upper-class, and the subject matter included things like how to get directions to Piccadilly Circus. How things have changed! Now youre just as likely to hear learners from around the world describing their own experiences of studying English.And of course we have the internet, an incredible learning tool. The role of English has also changed a lot over 60 years. It certainly doesnt belong to the Brits any more, as many countries have adopted it as part of their own linguistic tool kit. At the same time its become a kind of lingua franca to help people from different countries talk to each other. Perhaps the biggest difference for the World Service production team has been the explosion in the number of ways that we can talk to each other. Just flick through these pages and see if you can spot some of them: voting by mobile phone in west Africa, text messages in China, internet message boards discussing everything from phrasal verbs to favourite foods, FM radio partnerships in Poland, China or Senegal.And this is not just a hi-tech revolution.We still get plenty of good old-fashioned letters. I often wonder what our predecessors in the Learning English team 60 years ago would have made of it. If you are lucky enough to have access to the internet, you may already have spotted our re-designed Learning English website (see pages 7-9), which brings a much greater wealth of material for learners, including ways of contacting other learners. If you are a teacher you should definitely check out the teaching English website, jointly produced with the British Council (see page 10).This is an excellent forum for exchanging ideas as well as picking up tips on running successful lessons. Both these websites allow you to hear again some of the radio programmes which we broadcast every day to different parts of the world.That means you can listen as often as you want and at a time thats convenient to you. One thing hasnt changed in the last 60 years.Were still helping people to communicate across the globe and to understand each other better. Im looking forward to seeing what the next 60 years will bring.

HOW TO CONTACT US BY POST Learning English BBC World Service Bush House London WC2B 4PH UK BY TEL / FAX Tel: +44 (0)20 7557 1270 (answerphone) Fax: +44 (0)20 7557 1311 BY EMAIL learning.english@bbc.co.uk ONLINE www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish www.teachingenglish.org.uk

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RADIO

Plan your listening week...

MONDAYS
Lower level ELT

Remember you can record BBC World Service programmes from your radio onto cassette and use them in the classroom.
Do your intermediate level students use the same old words and expressions all the time? Perhaps theyre ready for an English Makeover (Sep-Dec 03) the new series that helps real learners to refresh their conversational English. Or they could take the Radio English Test (Jan-Mar 04) and answer questions on pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. How will they score against the guest student in the studio? Listeners letters and competitions take centre stage in The Friday Show (every fourth Friday), which also showcases new programmes coming up in the month ahead. The ever-popular Living English Magazine (Jul-Aug 03 + Jan-Feb 04) invites listeners to send in their questions and learning tips and to share the experiences of a guest learner each week. Listen carefully to Where To Next? (Sep-Nov 03), a new radio and web based board game for learners. Only if listeners send in the correct answers to the clues, does the virtual journey around the world move on! There are more journeys of the imagination in The Reading Group (once a month, from Nov 03), which brings learners and experts together through a shared love of reading (see feature opposite).

FRIDAYS

A chance for learners to have their say

TUESDAYS

Work and business

If your upper intermediate students have a head for business, Power Speaking (JulAug 03) offers them the tips and techniques theyll need to assert themselves in business situations. Real-life stories about Working Abroad (Oct-Nov 03) highlight the inter-cultural and communication difficulties they can expect to face if theyre planning on taking jobs overseas using English. Better Business Writing (Jan-Feb 04) for intermediate learners covers all the written communication skills theyll need for business, from emails and memos to job applications and letters of resignation.

SATURDAYS
Music

WEDNESDAYS

Language In Focus programmes offer learners of English access to programmes Access to World l iona cat targeted at a broader World Learning edu g rnin Lea programmes audience. For example, during the Making A Living term (Jul-Aug 03), Language In Focus considers the implications of labels like peasant, farmer, hunter-gatherer and nomad that are often applied to people in traditional livelihoods. Who chooses these descriptions, and what are the hidden meanings behind the words?

Music is a wonderful way to engage younger learners in particular and Pop Goes English (Jan-Feb 04) is sure to delight. Featuring songs by British pop groups, the series provides extensive listening practice for elementary level learners and a few new dance moves! Talking Music (Jul-Oct 03) combines pop star interviews with music news and reviews in a lively magazine format to help intermediate students master the language they need to talk about music.

SUNDAYS

Programmes for teachers and about literature

THURSDAYS
Current affairs

Learners with a strong interest in news and current affairs will welcome The Big Story (Jul-Aug + Nov-Dec 03). The series provides the background to todays main news stories as well as the language needed to follow BBC World Service news reports in English. Each programme focuses on a major international news topic, such as globalisation, water and migration.

The audio diaries of three trainee teachers provide insight into key teaching areas in Cross Training (Feb-Mar 04), while in Lessons From Learners (Dec 03-Jan 04) its the turn of the students to explain what its like to be on the receiving end of different teaching approaches. Practical classroom tips in Teaching Tales (Oct-Dec 03), show how the art of storytelling can be an effective means of teaching English. If you have trouble getting your students to talk in English, then tune into Conversation Class (Jun-Jul 03) to hear teachers and experts get real conversations going. Two new programmes will help you get intermediate students reading and writing. Six Love Stories (Sep-Oct 03) looks at the language of relationships and literary devices through six contemporary novels, while in Page Turners (Mar-Apr 04) learners discuss why some novels are just too good to put down!

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Putting the audience at the heart of the programme

BBC World Service has been broadcasting radio programmes for learners and teachers of English for 60 years. Increasingly, the programme-making process is about collaboration and about bringing the audience into the studio not just teachers and other ELT experts, but real learners of English too.

Learning From FOOC

Popular weekly radio series, From Our Own Correspondent (FOOC), has run for many years on BBC World Service. It features topical reports in English from BBC correspondents around the world. But how much can students of English understand? The Learning English team decided to find out! Special reports were commissioned from BBC correspondents, including Bridget Kendall, Kevin Connolly, Kate Clark and Jill McGivering. Back in the studio, the reports were played to learners from key World Service regions, to help develop listening strategies and boost vocabulary. This provides the basis for Learning From FOOC (Jun-Jul 03). The reports were treated as a listening comprehension exercise. If students ran into difficulty, we helped them by focusing on those problem language areas, says presenter Susan Fearn. Through their experiences, we hope to help listeners around the world gain greater access to mainstream all-English reports on BBC World Service radio, says producer John Goodman.

The Reading Group

Monthly series The Reading Group returns in November 2003 and invites you to get involved! In the first series, ELT authors offered strategies for reading books in English, and learners put their English into practice by reporting from some of Londons literary locations. Annemarit van de Made from the Netherlands went to The British Library to report on the original manuscript of her favourite novel Jane Eyre. Now, shes looking forward to guest presenting in the next series of The Reading Group! I love reviewing books and talking about the problems we face when reading books in English as non-native speakers. It is fantastic to acknowledge the pleasure of reading and its importance in people's lives. Producer Amber Barnfather says "Do get involved! Tell us what topics interest you most it could be anything from dictionaries to detective novels!

HOW YOU AND YOUR STUDENTS CAN GET INVOLVED

1. Be a reporter! Write a report (no more than 200 words) telling us about your local library, your favourite bookshop, your local reading group or about the reading habits of your class 2. Send us your review of a favourite read! (no more than 200 words) Briefly explain the plot or contents. Tell us why you chose to read the book and what you think is best about it. Why do you recommend your book to The Reading Group? 3. Share your tips for making reading books in English more enjoyable. Email us for more details at: learning.english@bbc.co.uk putting 'Reading Group' in the subject line. Don't forget to tell us what country you're in. There may be a chance for you to take part in the programme directly, so please include a telephone number if you can. Or write to: The Reading Group, BBC World Service, Room 308, Bush House, London WC2B 4PH, UK.

English Makeover
Another series that puts the learner firmly at the centre of production is English Makeover (Sep-Dec 03). Users of English in different professions and from different countries tell us their particular problems with English. ELT expert Karen Adams gives advice which the students then act upon, returning later to tell us how they got on. In this way, the content of the programmes is largely determined by the learners themselves. Guest learners include a Mexican dancer, a Kazakh flautist and a Korean chef.

CLARISSA LEAHY

Left: Mexican dancer Aura Alvarez is one of the learners to receive an English Makeover from the BBC. Right: Listener Annemarit van de Made from the Netherlands returns as a guest presenter in the second series of The Reading Group

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TIM MOOCK

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Building links with the audience

With our audience of learners and teachers of English dispersed around the world, we need to make sure were really serving your needs. To this end, the Learning English programme-makers take every available opportunity to find out from listeners themselves what it is they want to hear.

JOANNE REFFIN

From left to right: Producer Tony Grimes meets students in a school in Cotonou, Benin; Smiles all round at the Learning English event in Cotonou; Nabi Amatou tells producer Abigail Wincott about her special Voodoo deity, in Porto Novo, Benin.

Club dAnglais the Benin trip

Club dAnglais, the popular interactive series for learners in Francophone Africa, is almost entirely made up of stories and comments from listeners, sent in by post, email or recorded over the telephone. In March 2003, the Club dAnglais team travelled to Cotonou, Benin, to meet the audience face to face and to gather programme content for a one-off interactive special programme. For the first time ever, listeners to BBC Afrique were asked to vote for the subjects they wanted to hear about. Votes came in to the programme by email, mobile phone text message and via the Learning English website. The results of the vote showed the two most popular subjects to be the Voodoo religion and the history of the Slave Coast in Benin. Producer Abigail Wincott then recorded the reports on these subjects during the trip. The one-off Benin special was a real experiment and a chance to see whether this level of audience interactivity could actually work. We learnt a lot from this first attempt, which by and large went really well. We definitely want to do more of this in the future, says Abigail. At the same time as collecting the interviews for the special programme, the Club dAnglais team took the opportunity to meet some of their regular listeners. At an

all day event of competitions and games, learners also took the opportunity to make contact with each other. It was amazing to meet so many of the people who have contributed to past programmes at the event, says Abigail, and I think the listeners enjoyed meeting each other as well. Listen out for the new series of Club dAnglais in 2004.

the show with answers to questions about the popular BBC World Service Learning English series Buzz Words. Buzz Words producer, Keith Rickets, says, the visit was a great chance to meet listeners and our partner broadcasters, and to see first hand that students really do enjoy learning with our programmes. Its confirmed that lively, short, topical series work really well with the audience in Poland.

Reaching the audience via local FM radio stations

Many listeners tune in to BBC World Service programmes for learners and teachers of English on their local FM radio stations. The BBC currently works with over 100 radio stations in over 30 countries. As well as ensuring clear reception for listeners, these relationships help programme-makers to find out more about the needs of the audience.

FM partners in Senegal
Many teachers and learners of English in Senegal listen to BBC World Service Learning English programmes on five local FM radio stations. In March 2003, Anna Jones and Mark White from the BBCs Learning English team travelled to Dakar to meet producers and presenters from these five stations and a station in Mali, as well as representatives from the Senegalese Ministry of Education, the British Council and a local English language institute. The workshop focused on the content, presentation and relevance of BBCs Learning English radio programmes, printed support material and website. Our five partner stations were very enthusiastic about the output and had lots of good suggestions for future programmes, says Mark White. In addition, we gained a valuable insight into the needs of our African audience and plenty of ideas of how we can serve them even better.

On air in Poland
In November 2002, members of the Learning English team travelled to Szczecin in Poland to meet local learners and teachers of English. As well as running seminars at some of the local universities, colleges and schools, the team had a chance to meet the audience on air. Throughout the week, Elizabeth Greenfield, presenter of English language teaching programmes on the BBC Polish service, was a guest on the morning show on Radio Szczecin. Listeners were invited to ring

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ONLINE

BBC LEARNING ENGLISH WEBSITE

www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish

Click on the links and learn!

The BBC World Service Learning English website is a self-study online resource for all those interested in improving their English. Packed full of interactive audio and video exercises, Learning English is a dynamic way for learners of English to develop their English language skills. Designed for use by learners at home or in the classroom, the site is divided into distinct sections covering topics such as NEWS ENGLISH, BUSINESS ENGLISH, GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY, and QUIZZES. You can also find information about BBC Learning English radio programmes as well as links to other related sites. The site is updated every weekday, so there is always new material for learners to enjoy whenever they drop in. To keep up to date with all thats new, sign up for the weekly email newsletter on the site. If your learners have a question about the English language, why not get them to email our language experts on the LEARN IT page or put it to the international community of learners and teachers on the Learning English MESSAGE BOARDS? This feature provides a safe community for late teens onwards where your students can communicate with other learners and teachers around the world (see page 9). With multiple choice quizzes, language practice, self-study courses and online chat, the Learning English website is a superb one-stop learning resource.

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ONLINE

BBC LEARNING ENGLISH WEBSITE

www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish

Focus on: Watch and Listen

WATCH AND LISTEN is a section of the BBC Learning English website where your learners can find video, audio and text based activities on a range of language topics. Ask your students to find out about an artist in the current British music chart by watching their latest video online and then reading about their life, their music and the key vocabulary from the song. Or set them the task of finding out about the hidden secrets of cities around the UK in BEYOND THE POSTCARD. With interactive audio and video exercises, this in-depth feature gives your students an interesting insight into cities and towns throughout the United Kingdom with challenging activities to develop their vocabulary and comprehension skills. During 2003, look out for additional postcards from Belfast, Edinburgh, York, Cardiff and Shrewsbury. Other features in this section include... VIDEO NATION authentic video diaries from real people around the United Kingdom as well as interactive exercises for learners RETRO ENGLISH an exciting and informative way for your students to explore the last three decades of British popular culture through music and interviews with pop stars MUSIC DIRECTORY let Katrina Leskanich of 80s pop band Katrina and the Waves be your guide through genres of modern music and musical events, from drum + bass, soca and salsa, to Womad and the Brit Awards
www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish/multimedia/index.shtml

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ONLINE

BBC LEARNING ENGLISH WEBSITE

www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish

A great place to make friends online

In the COMMUNICATE section of the BBC Learning English website there are plenty of opportunities to practise communication and writing skills with other learners around the world in a safe online community. Join the BBC ENGLISH DISCUSSION GROUP and exchange emails in English with new friends on a range of topics, including lifestyles, the latest news and learning and teaching English. Or you can actively participate in discussions as they happen through a variety of English language MESSAGE BOARDS. Each board focuses on a particular topic, so add your thoughts by replying to comments or suggest a topic yourself and find out what other people think. To join the DISCUSSION GROUP or subscribe to the MESSAGE BOARDS, follow the instructions at:
www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish/communicate/index.shtml

How to use the MESSAGE BOARDS

HINT For this you will need an email address.

STEP 1 Register your name and email address you only have to register once. Simply click REGISTER and follow instructions.
HINT HINT You can choose the name youll be known by on the message boards. You will also need to think of a password.

STEP 2 Decide your viewing options. You can choose to view messages as they are posted irrespective of the topic (click TIME ORDER) or, if you prefer, you can choose to see the messages within each topic separately (click DISCUSSION).
HINT You can also choose to view only the message title (click TITLES ONLY) or the title plus the first few lines of the message itself (click EXPANDED) its up to you!

STEP 3 Now click on MESSAGE BOARDS and choose any one of the Message Boards.
HINT Why not start with Communicate here youll find people from all over the world chatting about themselves, the English language and other topics. You dont have to write anything if you dont want to just read what other people are saying. You can have your questions about the English language answered by teachers on the Ask a question Message Board then look up explanations to some of the most frequently asked questions on the GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY section of the main Learning English website.

HINT HINT

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TEACHING ENGLISH WEBSITE

www.teachingenglish.org.uk

For Teachers By Teachers

EMAIL NEWSLETTER To be kept up to date you can sign up for the free teaching English email newsletter. To the join the mailing list, go to: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/talk/list.shtml

The teaching English website is a rapidly growing resource for teachers of English around the world. Produced jointly by the BBC and the British Council, teaching English combines methodological articles from professionals and academics in the field of English language teaching with practical classroom ideas and downloadable resources. You can send in questions on your particular teaching problems and also vote on a range of teaching issues. The site is divided into a number of main sections THINK, TALK, TRY and DOWNLOADS. THINK is the self-study section of the site. Each week, youll find a new article on a topic of relevance to English language teachers from teaching with phonemic symbols to teaching mixed-ability classes. TALK is your chance to interact with other teachers through the teaching English MESSAGE BOARD or by sending in your comments and questions for consideration by other teachers in the global community. You can also make your opinion count in the interactive Vote feature. For example, do you think you should encourage your students to have a native-speaker-like pronunciation? So cast your vote and see the opinions of fellow teachers around the world. TRY is where you can share practical activities, tips and lesson plans with other teachers online. Activities are sent in by visitors to the site so why not share your ideas? DOWNLOADS is where you can find downloadable quizzes, phonemic posters, BBC World Service radio programmes for teachers, books, resource packs, short stories and more. All these resources are available free of charge.

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IN THE CLASSROOM

BBC Learning English: Choosing and using whats right for your students
There is a wealth of material to support teachers of English on BBC World Service radio and online. Karen Adams, expert in learning and teaching, suggests some ways you can make the best use of Learning English radio programmes and online resources in the classroom.
Not very long ago, one of the major problems facing many English teachers was the lack of interesting and exciting material for use in the classroom. With the advent of the internet and the growth of satellite TV, however, we suddenly discovered a whole new world of teaching materials at our fingertips. Immediate access to newspapers, magazines and English-language programmes meant that our students need never be stuck with one boring old textbook. However, as one problem started to disappear it rapidly became replaced by another. There is now a huge amount of material available to us as teachers on the web, via TV and radio and in print. The range of both material and media means that putting together a lesson or series of lessons can sometimes seem overwhelming. With so much choice, how can we be sure of choosing exactly whats right for our students? One advantage of the BBC World Service is that it provides radio programmes and web-based materials which complement each other. This means that, with a little planning, teachers can combine the materials available to create new and interesting lessons for students. If you have access to the radio and the web, here are some ideas which you might like to try out. USE STUDY GUIDES IN CLASS A series of downloadable study guides is available on the Learning English website, covering a wide range of topics. Why not try to match the worksheets from the study guides to the different programmes which youll be using in class? For example, if you have a group of students who are learning English for business, you could ask them to prepare short presentations to give in class. First, ask capitalise on their interest further by making use of the Learning English message boards? Some students can feel a little at sea when invited to contribute to an international medium such as the message boards. However, using the programme as a springboard, you could ask your students to post their own recommendations for books in English on the website, and invite comments from other readers. In this way, you can help your students to create a virtual community of learners with similar interests. them to discuss what they feel are the key features of a good presentation, then ask them to compare their ideas with the Presentations worksheet in The Language Of Work And Study study guide. The final task on this worksheet asks them to prepare a short presentation. Before launching into this task, help them prepare by listening to Power Speaking the programme designed to help boost learners use of business language. Follow this up with the presentation task, focusing on how well they use the language they have learnt from the radio programme. Each study guide can be linked with a range of BBC World Service radio programmes, focusing on language skill development (e.g. Conversation Class with the Better Speaking study guide) or on specific language areas (e.g. The Big Story with the Language Of The Media study guide). BUILD A READING GROUP This autumn sees the return of The Reading Group, the popular programme devoted to helping learners read and enjoy literature written in English. You can read on page 5 how your students can become involved in the making of the programme. Why not GET CLUED UP! As teachers, we all know that language games are a good way to bring variety to a lesson. On the teaching English website there are lots of multiplechoice quizzes that you can print off and photocopy for your students. The quizzes cover a variety of language topics, from idioms and collocations to shopping and sport, so youre bound to find something of interest to your students. But why not build on them? By setting a quiz or puzzle as a class task (or competition) before students listen to a radio programme on a related topic, you can stimulate their interest in what they are about to hear. After they have listened to the programme, and discussed what they have heard, why not challenge them to create a puzzle or quiz based on the programme to test their classmates? The game can have the same format as the one which they completed before the programme, but the content must be different. These are just a few ways in which the BBC World Service can help you combine web-based material and media with excellent listening material for lessons which help your students access a whole world of English.

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Downloads
Resources you can print off the Learning English and teaching English websites. PROGRAMME SCHEDULES
Make sure you know when to tune in to BBC World Service Learning English radio programmes for learners and teachers of English. Download the latest radio programme schedule for details of what you can hear in your area.

CLASSROOM RESOURCES
Quizzes and wordgames are always useful in the language classroom and on the teaching English website there is a handy selection of multiple-choice quizzes ready for you to download and photocopy. Each question has a choice of four possible answers, only one of which is correct. A guide for teachers is provided. There are quizzes to suit all levels of learner, covering a wide range of language areas, including grammar and vocabulary topics. www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/quizzes.shtml

www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish/radio/ highlights.shtml

STUDY BOOKLETS
A series of 12-page Learning English study booklets covering a number of topics. The booklets include extracts from BBC World Service Learning English radio programmes as well as additional material and are ideal for self-study or for use in the classroom. Booklets include Better Speaking Improve your spoken English Effective Reading Reading literature in English Learning Guide Build your vocabulary, make useful phrases and correct your own errors Self Study Make the most of your study time The Language Of Study And Work Write better essays, give effective presentations and get that job! The Language Of The Media Access news headlines, sports commentaries, arts reviews and financial reports on BBC World Service www.bbcworldservice.com/learningenglish/radio/ studyguides/index.shtml BBC World Service 2003 Editor: Tim Moock Designed by: Taylor McKenzie Design Consultants Published by: BBC World Service

BOOKS FOR TEACHERS

Action Plan for Teachers a guide to teaching English by Callum Robertson with Richard Acklam A 44 page illustrated book on the subject of English Language Teaching. The book covers the topics of planning and preparing lessons, teaching methodology and classroom practice, using technology in the classroom, and also has ideas for and examples of practical activities for different stages of the lesson. www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/books.shtml

New downloads are added all the time, so make sure you regularly check whats available on the Learning English and teaching English websites.