«Teach, Learn, Grow»

A textbook is, for most teachers, an essential basis for their English courses. Some writers
have suggested that it has a negative influence on teaching: that teachers become slaves of the
coursebook, and just follow it blindly and mechanically. This, in my experience is not so:
most teachers can, and do, use materials in different ways to make them more appropriate for
their students. In this workshop I will look at some simple techniques of adaptation of coursebook texts and exercises to make them more learning-rich, interesting, or available to different levels of students in the class.

To teach new grammar, we need a good context where grammar comes from. Only this way students can relate it to real communication and real use. In this session we will explore different approaches to introducing grammar from context. Some of them are more suitable for lower level students, while others for more advanced ones.

Despite Native Speakerism being frowned upon and British Pronunciation being virtually impossible to define, many teachers all around the world, feel a need to build their confidence in this area of their teaching repertoire. This interactive webinar is based on research identifying the most elusive components to initially raise awareness of teachers’ needs to attune their listening.  Through discovering what they need to notice in terms of the finer details of sounds, stress, contractions, intonation and modulation combined with pauses they can practice and create a more natural flow in their own speaking skills in order to feel more confident. They will leave with a pack of resources to follow up with prcatice.