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Bookmark: 10 useful VKontakte groups for an English teacher
We suggest diluting your VK feed with useful communities that will become sources of professional inspiration, useful materials for work, and answers to important questions.
If you still haven't subscribed to these 10 communities, this needs to be fixed urgently:
We Teach English (for teachers)
From a group where several teachers shared useful materials and lesson ideas with each other, We Teach English over the course of several years has grown into the largest VKontakte community for English teachers.
Now it’s worth subscribing to this group not even for the worksheets - it’s a full-fledged forum for teachers, where everyone can discuss any professional problem with colleagues; you just need to leave a question of interest in the suggested community posts.
What's useful? Communication with colleagues, ideas for lessons, educational streams.
Read about the history of the creation of the community in our interview with its creator Irina Botnar.
About English – Community of Creative Teachers
A community for teachers who do not tolerate boring and monotonous lessons. Here you will find everything you need for creative and memorable lessons - games, templates, handouts and fresh ideas that will definitely impress students.
In addition, there are tips for properly organizing a class and working with different groups of students, an analysis of various teaching techniques, tips on methods and techniques that help take a teacher’s professional skills to a new level.
By the way, the creator of the Pro English Katerina Stashevskaya specializes in working with young learners. So anyone who has any questions on this topic is required to subscribe!
What's useful? Ideas for lessons, ready-made materials, methodological recommendations.
English Step By Step ( For teachers & learners)
English Step By Step —
This is a database of electronic materials - textbooks, audio and video recordings for learning English. Every day, an average of 5-7 posts are published in the community with a variety of textbooks, worksheets, and lesson ideas.
To truly appreciate the group, we recommend starting to get acquainted with it from the menu - there you can evaluate the volume of the resource and find useful materials for your lessons on any topic.
What's useful? Electronic materials, worksheets, lesson ideas.
English Worksheets For ESL Teachers
The name of the group speaks for itself - it is a collection of useful materials, so to speak, ready for use. You can save literally every post for yourself, print the attachment and use it in your next lesson.
In general, this is a real find for those who are not ready to spend hours on a long search for handouts and ideas for lessons. You just need to subscribe once and everything will be at your fingertips.
What's useful? Worksheets, teaching materials, games, lesson ideas.
English meccano: construct your lessons
We give you materials, you construct your ideal lesson from them - this is exactly the principle on which the English meccano . Why is it worth subscribing? Definitely for the sake of interesting and common ideas for lessons, unusual language games and powerful professional motivation for English teachers.
As a bonus, the group launched the “English in Kindergarten” project (search using the hashtag #enkindergarten), which publishes practical advice for teachers who teach English to the youngest.
What's useful? Ideas for lessons, educational materials, atypical games.
English teacher. English teacher
Personal group of teacher Ekaterina Stukun, who shares her findings and ideas for teaching English lessons with colleagues. True, this is not the only thing that attracts subscribers to the group. Ekaterina personally answers the most interesting questions from readers and regularly brings up for discussion problems familiar to every teacher.
What’s captivating is that Ekaterina doesn’t talk about her experience one-sidedly—here you will learn about both the ups and downs. She also regularly conducts streams where she and her readers discuss useful methodological literature. Each of her ideas is a godsend for English teachers, so highly recommend!
What's useful? Methodological recommendations, ideas for lessons, educational streams, literature for English teachers.
Proactive teacher
If you have ever felt a lack of inspiration, signs of emotional burnout, or loss of interest in your work, you need to read The Proactive Educator .
For what? This group is dedicated not so much to work as to the life of a teacher. Community creator Anna Aronshtam helps teachers find inspiration in simple things, identify and solve professional and personal problems and not push themselves into the background!
In general, a group for the soul. For the soul of a true teacher.
What's useful? Professional help and support, psychology, humor.
EnglishMANnia. Read Books and Teach.
A cozy community for book-loving teachers. The author of the community, Anna Trofimova, leads the group in the format of a personal blog, where she shares interesting ideas for lessons and regularly writes about opportunities for professional development of teachers.
The central topic of the blog is, of course, books. Here you will find reading recommendations, participate in discussions, and learn how to use books to benefit your lessons.
What's useful? Teaching guidelines, lesson ideas, book recommendations, ideas for professional development.
English Seriously | About English seriously
For serious conversations about English, we recommend checking out the English Seriously . This is the personal blog of teacher Irina Grinko - a person who is inspired by English and inspires others.
English Seriously is a treasure trove of useful materials and resources for English teachers. Irina understands each of the proposed resources herself and writes detailed reviews on them, telling how to use them in practice. Anyone who is looking for new ideas for lessons should subscribe!
What's useful? Analysis of resources and materials for English lessons, ideas for lessons.
British Council
We doubt that you have not heard of the British Council, but still. The British Council also has a community on VKontakte, so if you don’t have time to monitor its website, we recommend subscribing. Then all notifications about new courses, webinars and useful materials for teachers and students will come directly to your feed.
What's useful? Information about webinars for teachers, methods, ideas for lessons.
Well, taking advantage of the situation, let us remind you that #Teachaholic is also on VKontakte.
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To English
On the computer
You can also change the language to English from any other using the above method. Namely, it looks like this:
- In VKontakte, open the settings again through the arrow located at the top.
- At the very bottom select “Change"opposite section "Language" and set the layout "English».
On Android
- Pull out the top curtain and click on the gear located in the upper right corner.
- At the bottom of the page open “General settings».
- Next, select “Language and input».
- In the window that appears, click “Adding a language».
- Find the English language and select it to activate.
- All that remains is to select "Make it standard».
On iPhone
On your iPhone you need to go to settings and change the device language to English. Only after this the language in VK will change to the appropriate one. Let's look at the example below:
- Find settings on the main page and open them.
- Next, open “Basic».
- Next, select “date and time».
- And finally, select "English».
As you can see, changing the language on the VKontakte social network is quite simple. It is enough to use the official settings on your computer, or change the language in your phone settings. I hope that you no longer have questions about how to change the language in VK on any device.
How to change the language to Russian in VK
Now let's look at how to change the language to Russian in VK, because often users translate their page into some unfamiliar language (for example, Chinese, Korean), and then cannot return the Russian language, since it is difficult to understand the menu in a foreign language. Or, for example, Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine are interested in how to remove the Ukrainian language from VK.
In general, to change the language to Russian in VK you need to:
- Go to your VK page, click on the arrow at the top right, as shown below, and select the middle tab, which opens “Settings”;
- On the page that opens, the last item is responsible for changing the language. Here you just need to click on the “Change” link and select Russian from the list.
- That's all! The language change will be automatically applied to the VK page!
