Dear ETNI-ers The registration for the TeachingEnglish blogathon (blogging marathon) closes on 9 January. Taking part in this blogging competition provides a great opportunity to connect with other teachers from all over the world in order to share good practice in ELT and build an online community for continuing professional development. Not less importantly, it is also a chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the world's largest English teachers conference in the UK this March: http://www.iatefl.org/events/iatefl-annual-conference-and-exhibition <http://www.iatefl.org/events/iatefl-annual-conference-and-exhibition> What can you blog about? You can share your classroom experiences, successes and frustrations as well as lesson plans, tips, activities that you've used and/or adapted. To get inspired have a look at these two blogs, started a little over two years ago by English teachers like you who have gone on to become really big names in the ELT blogosphere with a huge following. http://blog.edulang.com/ <http://blog.edulang.com/> http://vickyloras.wordpress.com <http://vickyloras.wordpress.com/> The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We are a registered charity; 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). We create international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and build trust between them worldwide. We call this cultural relations. This message is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. The British Council accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by software viruses and you are advised to carry out a virus check on any attachments contained in this message.