Teaching English
We help teachers prepare for a lifetime of success in the classroom. Driven by our belief that better teaching leads to better outcomes for learners, we work closely with teachers to help people learn English and prove their skills to the world.
Qualifications for teachers
Our qualifications are globally respected as the quality standard for teachers of all levels of experience. Whether you are an aspiring, developing or experienced teacher, we can support your progression, open doors to exciting career opportunities, and help you give your students the best chance to realise their potential.
Professional development for teachers
We have a range of resources, materials, and qualifications to help you define your own personal professional development journey. Everything is based on frameworks to help you identify where you are in your professional journey, where you want to be, and how you can get there.
Resources for all English teachers
Whether your students are preparing for a Cambridge English Qualification, or simply improving their English, we have resources to help you enhance their learning experience. We work with teachers and trainers around the world to develop practical tools that make learning enjoyable and motivating for your students at every stage of their learning journey.
Working with us to develop your teachers
By working with schools, ministries and education authorities around the world to support the development of teachers, we’re giving learners the best chance to succeed and realise their potential.
As the world’s leading provider of English teaching qualifications and courses, we offer a comprehensive range of training and support to help teachers develop their professional skills.
Created by experts in teacher development and assessment, all our qualifications are backed by research and are designed to promote the development of theoretical knowledge and practical skills for a variety of teaching contexts. We also offer language development courses specially designed for teachers, to help them improve their own English language skills for use in the classroom.
Teaching resources
Here you can find a wide range of practical resources to use in your classroom, whether you are teaching primary students, secondary students, or adults and business students. There are over 400 full lesson plans to choose from, covering different topics and themes, all organised according to the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).
We also have shorter activities, as well as ideas for using songs, poems and stories to help your learners improve their English in engaging, motivating and enjoyable ways.
All of our practical materials are written by experts in English Language Teaching and are free to download.
Teaching resources – lesson plans & materials
If you are an English language teacher or ELT professional, the British Council has lots of free resources to support your work.
You can:
sign up to our online teacher training courses
download free lesson plans and classroom materials
get tips, articles and information about professional development, conferences and qualifications
join discussion groups and access training materials.
Teacher training
We offer a range of teacher training courses covering areas such as primary and secondary teaching, learning technologies and many other subjects. Learn more about teacher training.
Teaching resources
If you are a busy English language teacher or trainer looking for support and development materials for your classroom, we can help you with the collection of free materials on the British Council’s website for teachers.
Lesson plans
Our lesson plans give you a series of activities to use in your classroom, including procedure and worksheets to download. If you are an English language teacher looking for materials, the British Council can help you with regularly updated lesson plans and classroom materials.
Classroom activity
If you are an English language teacher looking for materials, we can help you with our regularly updated classroom activities.
TeachingEnglish articles
If you are an English language teacher and want to develop your understanding of teaching methodology and practice, the TeachingEnglish articles offer regularly updated pieces by experienced teachers and ELT professionals.
Using literature in English language teaching
If you are looking for literature-based materials, we can help you with texts, activities and listening materials.
Tablet app for classrooms
LearnEnglish Kids: Phonics Stories (School Edition) is a phonics-based story app which helps children learn to read and speak English. Each story practises phonics sounds and includes a game and dictionary. A teachers guide offers expert advice on how to use the app in the classroom.
Become an expert online English teacher
Is it time for a new online direction in your teaching career? Join our 4-week course to learn how to adapt your face-to-face teaching skills to an online environment.
Teaching English online is now becoming increasingly important all over the world, giving learners and teachers flexibility to work and learn wherever they want in the world.
Learn all about online teaching
When you start the course, you’ll learn how to prepare for teaching online. You’ll discover the kind of equipment you need, research and choose an online platform and learn how to create materials and activities for English lessons.
Developing a rapport with your students is essential, so you’ll also receive some tips on how to do this as a new online teacher.
Helping to develop listening and reading skills
Next, you’ll focus on how to help learners develop listening and reading skills online. You’ll go over the differences between listening and reading in English online compared to in-person teaching.
Start planning your English lessons with our lesson outline advice and learn about different activities and resources you can use online.
Teaching English speaking, pronunciation and writing skills
You’ll be moving on to English speaking and pronunciation this week. Discover how to teach English speaking in both one to one lessons and online groups.
Learn how to diagnose pronunciation issues and try some useful tools for teaching correct English pronunciation. Then we’ll move on to thinking about online writing lessons and how to provide feedback.
Sealing your future as an online teacher
You’ll finish the course by learning how to get a new online teaching business up and running. You’ll also discover how to continue your professional development as an online teacher.
Teaching English without Teaching
In this talk Roberto discusses his three phase system which he uses to teach English without teaching English, to improve the learning experience for students and the teaching practice for professors.
After reading “6 Strategies for Teaching English “, you can check important issues for ESL teachers on the section PDFs. And visit my channel by YouTube.