Teaching resources

The Ex-footballer is a short story written by Sevim Ak, a popular Turkish writer of novels and short stories for children.

The story tells about a boy who rips his new football shirt while playing football. The boy walks into a repair shop to have it mended. The man who repairs it turns out to be a professional ex-footballer. But who is he exactly? Why is he now repairing clothes for a living? Read the story to find out the answers.

At the Marketplace is a short story written by Sevim Ak, a popular Turkish writer of novels and short stories for children.

Set in an unknown Turkish city, the story tells about a boy who picks up his camera and goes to the market place in his neighbourhood, hoping to take some interesting pictures. He talks to the people and listens to their life stories but can he take any pictures? Read the story and find out how he ends up taking photos of baby ducks instead.

Use this lesson with adult students of CEFR Level C1 to explore the topic of race in Shakespeare’s play 'Othello’. 

This lesson plan for teachers of teenage and adult students at level A2 explores resolutions on the topic of ‘New Year’.

This lesson with simple Christmas activities is aimed at children aged 5–8.

This unit is designed to introduce students to the characters and plot of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion.
It provides basic information on the characters in the book and also provides students with opportunities to develop creative writing skills using Jane Austen’s texts as a prompt.

This Lesson is designed to introduce students to the characters and plot of Northanger Abbey as well as to introduce students to Austen’s ironic treatment of character and themes. Students have the opportunity to read dialogues in the novel and to do some language work on adjectives using the text extracts. 

This unit is designed to introduce students to the characters and plot of Mansfield Park. 
It provides basic information on the characters in the book and also explores the idea of how particular houses played an important part in Austen’s work and in her personal life.
 

This unit is designed to develop students’ understanding of the importance of letters in Austen’s work and in her own life. It is based on Emma, a novel where written communication between the characters has a significant importance on the plot. At the same time it introduces some of the characters and the plot of the novel.

In June 2013, the British Council’s Social Media Team Child Protection team worked with CEOP to develop 5 Golden Rules to help parents and carers keep their children safe on social media. As this was a great success and was well appreciated, we would now like to continue this work. The aim of this lesson is to sensitise teenage students to the risks of social media and to raise their awareness of how to stay safe when using it.

Stories for Schools is a British Council Turkey project to provide students with high-quality English language short stories.

Sewing Day is a short story written by Sevim Ak, a popular Turkish writer of novels and short stories for children.

Set in an unknown Turkish city, the story tells about a girl encounters the mysterious world of adults during a normal day at the hairdresser’s. Read from a child’s perspective how a single letter changes the lives of everyone in the story. 

Stories for Schools is a British Council Turkey project to provide students with high-quality English language short stories.

The Long Journey Home is a short story written by Sophie Smiley, a UK teacher and writer of storybooks for children.

Set in Istanbul, this is a thrilling adventure story about a football-mad boy who gets caught up with a gang of criminals. How can Mehmet’s football skills help him beat a man with a gun?