Welcome to the ELT Online Community

Welcome to the English Language Teaching Online Community. This space is for you, Brazilian teachers who would like to interact with other professionals.

The Community was officially launched in September 2004, and since then we have been publishing reports, stories, poems, downloadable resources and other items of interest to English teachers.

Julian Wing was its creator and now it is my responsibility and pleasure to take it from here, updating the content and bringing new features to it, as well as encouraging more and more teachers to join in.

Teachers are welcome to send lesson plans and ideas to be shared with others, and mainly to participate in the forum discussions, where you can find a wide variety of topics, including a "Teachers´ Helpline".

We would love to have you with us sharing opinions, sending stories and promoting events in the calendar section.
Hope to see you around the community.

All the best,

Roberta Guimarães
ELT Projects Officer
elt.community@britishcouncil.org.br

Community Members` Feedback

"I spent the last hour or so browsing the ELT Community site and was amazed at what I saw. Congratulations! This is something very nice for all teachers."

"I must say that the site IS SO interesting and informative. Sth EACH & EVRY ELT teacher should see!"

"I`m a public secondary school teacher, and I`ve been studying the ETP units. I think this is a great initiative to help teachers like me who have little time and money to enroll in a course to brush up our English. The lessons are carefully planned and designed, and the audio files are of good quality."

"This community is a chance for us to keep in contact with the language and some of the latest issues concerning English teaching. I`m glad to know there are people out there who share the same interests and are taking the initiative to help those who have to strive in order not to fossilise completely in the language.
Thanks Julian and all of you involved in the operation and maintenance of this online community. Keep up the excellent work!"

"This (is an) awesome site - looks great!"

"Congratulations on all the brilliant work you`ve been doing recently on the BC ELT Community website - the audio and video recordings are great!"

"Really enjoyed reading the BC ELT Community update. I´m impressed by so many things going on...Reading what my colleagues have been doing helps reenergise my own work. Many thanks !"

"I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Julian and his team for the fantastic work and information exchange the ELT Online Commnity provides for its members and for the teaching community in general both in Brazil and overseas. Personally, I think this site has been one of the highlights for me in 2006 and I`m very pleased I`ve come across it."

"...how nice it is to be in touch."

"I`m encouraged that after only a few minutes I am registered, logged on and am sending you this message."

"This site is simply the best."

"I`m having a day off today and so I could read many articles and get to know the complete site better. I`m really impressed and very happy to be a member now."

"Once again, thank you all and kudos to the persons running this forum - it is a great way to contact people and have intelligent, work-related discussions about our chosen field."

"Networking with other professionals is always a great opportunity to keep abreast of new events in our profession. Congratulations on the web page and all its resources."

"Congratulations! You have been working hard to help us to improve our methodology and theory knowledge!"

"Gostei muitíssimo do site. Vou frequentar!"

"Thank you very much for remember. We try to do our best for the public school in Brazil but is not so easy. I am almost give up teaching english in the public school, but we still kip going. Is very good to know that have people around supporting us. Thank you very much!"

"I just want to congratulate you all responsible for the British Council Brazil English language teaching community. The community will make our huge Brazil become smaller and all English teachers become closer and help each other."

"I´m still getting used to the forum format! Very cool!"

"I´m so happy in this community!!"

"I´m here just to congratulate you, this site is really great and I´m learning a lot here!"

"I can say that I`ve become sort of addicted to the Forum, and a bit regretful for not having found this learning tool before. I can`t spend a day without checking new postings and what is being added."

"Thank God I found this forum! I`ve been reading some stuff and became a fan of this web site!"

"I´d just like to say the introduction of video and audio is working really well. Well done the community site is getting better each month, well done."

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Last updated August 22, 2007