«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.

The truth is that students don’t like writing and try to avoid it. However, there is a way out!. In this session we’ll discuss some creative ideas on how to get our students interested and change their mindset about writing. They need to know that writing can be fun if we trigger their imagination.