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As online video-sharing sites have developed, a wealth of short clips on a variety of topics have become available for classroom use. The teacher is no longer limited to school-owned cassettes or DVDs; rather, the world is at their fingertips. Learners can also access video from a number of devices, whether at school, at home or on the go.

On the British Council’s site for young learners - LearnEnglish Kids - there are lots of stories which you can use to motivate your learners. These stories have been specially written for children learning English and include traditional fairy tales as well as original stories.

Graded readers or ‘readers' are books that have had the language level simplified to help second language learners read them.

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and the British Council has been helping to celebrate his 200th birthday. One way that we have done this is by making teaching materials which can help teachers introduce Dickens into their lessons.

All classes are mixed ability to one extent or another. Extreme cases, when you have near native level speakers with beginners, can be very challenging for the teacher.

Music can play a really important part in the language classroom. It can change the atmosphere in the room within seconds.

Learning a language does not just mean saying something new. It helps to also practise saying words and sounds.

This teaching tips looks at how to adapt materials for different age groups.