Voices
Trainee secondary Spanish teacher Tom Ricketts didn't set out to have a career in languages, but his own teachers' expertise and a study year in Spain changed that.
Dr Zoe Whitley is Senior Curator, Hayward Gallery, London, and curator of Cathy Wilkes’ British Council commission at the British Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia 2019.
Aoife McLoughlin won the TeachingEnglish blog award with 7 Fun Tasks for Classroom Debates. Here, she tells us her favourite classroom vocabulary games.
Chia Suan Chong is the author of Successful International Communication, and a regular columnist and award-winning resident blogger for monthly magazine English Teaching Professional.
For UN Chinese Language Day, we asked British Council colleagues and programme participants in China what they find most surprising about learning Mandarin.
Wendy Sadler is a lecturer at Cardiff University, and the founder of the communication service science made simple. These are her six simple tips to become a science communicator.
How can teachers of English create learning material with streaming services? Melissa Thomson, a British Council teacher and trainer based in Bilbao, describes her top six approaches.
Don Merritt, an English language coordinator and former British Council teacher, uses these low-preparation activities to understand what his class have learned.
Emma Gilbertson's short film Crashing Waves, inspired by her story of childhood bullying and understanding her identity, tells the story of two gay men.
The short film I (ÉG) follows a trans character through the Icelandic landscape.