ELT Ideas 08 Programme - Macmillan Education

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E L TideasELT Ideas 08 ProgrammeGwyneth FoxGwyneth Fox started her career as an EFL teacher in Rome. She returned to UK, where she lectured in Applied Linguistics atBirmingham Polytechnic, and ran teacher-training courses. She then returned to the classroom, and taught at all levels, whilstcontinuing to train teachers. She was recruited to the Cobuild project at the University of Birmingham as a part-time researcher when itbegan in 1981. She continued to work with the project, taking over as Publishing Director in 1993, being responsible for all thedictionaries, grammars, and other materials. During that time and since then she has run courses, given seminars, and attendedconferences in Brazil, Spain, Poland, Mexico, UK and many other countries. Gwyneth left Cobuild in 1997, and lectured in linguistics atthe University of Birmingham. She is now a Visiting Fellow at the University of Aston. Until the end of 2007 she was also Dictionaries’Publisher for Macmillan, and is now Consultant to the Dictionaries Publishing Team.Target audience: ALLA Dictionary at your FingertipsIn this workshop I shall explain why learners’ dictionaries have the information in them that they do, and where the information comesfrom. I shall focus particularly on topics such as word frequency, collocation, and pragmatics rather than on grammar and wordmeaning! I shall also include various activities to show the importance of such information to both teachers and learners.Target audience: ALLGetting the most out of your Learners’ DictionaryDictionaries, particularly monolingual learners’ dictionaries, are full of information. Unfortunately, many students – and even someteachers – do not realise what a valuable language resource they are and so do not use them as well as they might. In this workshopI will explain what information they include and why it is so useful to learners. I will also suggest various activities that teachers can dowith their students to help them to get the most out of their dictionaries, and more particularly how they can use the dictionaries tohelp build up their confidence in using English.Judy Garton-SprengerJudy Garton-Sprenger has a wide range of experience in English language teaching through working as a teacher/teacher trainer, as awriter and as an actor. With a degree in European Studies and a diploma in TEFLA, she joined International House in London, whereteaching led to teacher training and to her first ELT writing project. Judy has spoken at conferences and led seminars for teachers inLatin America, Western, Central and Eastern Europe, including work for the British Council, the Soros Foundation and universitiesthroughout Britain. Meanwhile she has written numerous coursebooks for adult, secondary and primary students. She has also been aCambridge ESOL examiner, item-writer and syllabus consultant, and written radio scripts for BBC English. Judy co-wrote Inspiration,Shine and American Shine.Target audience: ZŠ2, SŠInspiring the LearnerThis workshop will explore ways of motivating secondary students by encouraging them to express themselves as individuals. Weshall also share ideas for working with large mixed ability classes and for helping students to develop simple strategies for learnerindependence with activities from Macmillan's new course Inspiration, by Judy Garton-Sprenger and Philip Prowse.Target audience: ZŠ2, SŠLearning in Style!Left brain, right brain or no brain? Is learning style identification a fad or a useful tool? In this practical workshop we'll do a learningstyles questionnaire and see whether you agree with its 'diagnosis'. Then we'll carry out a range of activities which you can use inyour own classroom and decide how far they reflect different learning styles. Examples will be taken from Macmillan's new courseInspiration, by Judy Garton-Sprenger and Philip Prowse.Joanne RamsdenJoanne is a currently teacher in the primary department of a Spanish state school having also worked in the infants department. Shehas many years experience both in infants and primary, developing materials and writing songs for the classroom. She has publishedseveral articles on teaching infants and is co-author of Play with Patch and Patch the Puppy 1 & 2.Target audience: P"What Fun!"Young children's sense of fun is one of their most endearing features. This talk looks at ways of maximising the fun element whenteaching infants and harnessing their natural energy and enthusiasm appropriately.Target audience: PClues for CLIL in the ClassroomCLIL has become the umbrella term for learning a foreign language whilst being taught a traditional subject such as science,geography or history. How does it work? What are the advantages. This session aims to demonstrate a practical approach to usingCLIL in the primary classroom.Jo GreigAfter teaching for eight years around the world Jo began working with Macmillan Education. She’s currently International MarketingDirector which allow her the opportunity to use her ELT experience and keep in touch with classroom.

Target audience: ALLBringing Grammar to LifeEven the word grammar can send a student to sleep! This workshop will look at how Macmillan’s new series – Macmillan EnglishGrammar in Context helps students learn and remember the grammar that they need as the foundation for their learning careers.We’ll explore the features of the book through practical activities that will helpful in your own teaching.Target audience: ALLRecycling VocabularyThis workshop will be full of practical ideas to help student remember and recycle vocabulary. We’ll look at how we can make wordseasier to remember, and provide some new and shared activities for the class.Paul McCulloughTarget audience: AGiving You The BusinessTake a stroll with me through The Business - Macmillan's scintillating new business English coursebook. You won't be disappointed. Ipromise!Ildikó PathóováTarget audience: ALLInternational English language examinations and their place within the educationalsystem of SlovakiaAdults and young adults who would like to prove their level of English to work, study (also at university) or just travel around the globe,are advised to have a certificate.City & Guilds IESOL and ISESOL exam is set at 6 levels from beginner to advanced. The specifications of the examination arealigned to the 6 levels of the Common European Framework (CEF). The seminar aims to give an overview of the structure of theexam, also the speaking skills to be improved when the focus is on assessing the language proficiency of candidates.Gréta KorpádiováTarget audience: SŠ, AEncourage Your Students to SpeakDo you still need more ideas for encouraging your students to speak? Come and see some ideas how, what and when to incorporatespeaking activities into your day-to-day teaching. From elementary to advanced teenage students.Target audience: SŠ, APreparing Students for ExamsPreparing your students for exams such as PET, FCE or the maturita needs lots of effort, so why not take a look at a modern, excitingand motivating way to teach it with LASER which features up to date topics and introduces a new approach to exam preparation.Jarmila FictumováTarget audience: ALLFree resources on the internetThis talk will introduce websites where teachers can download hundreds of ready-made worksheets for all age groups. Eachworksheet comes with teacher’s notes and a key – just print, photocopy and use in class! The talk is based on services provided bywww.onestopenglish.com and accompanying projects.Ond ej MatuškaTarget audience: ALLTeach the right wordsTeachers should focus on teaching 'the important words'. Nowadays, modern lexicographic tools (corpora and concordancing tools)help us establish which they are and give examples of usage. This information is then included in modern learner dictionaries.Target audience: ALLMeaningful speaking activities‘I don’t know what to say’ is the usual way students react to speaking exercises. Properly designed activities help to avoid suchsituations. The talk will explain simple principles which an activity should adhere to so that students feel a strong need to expressthemselves – the key motivating element. These principles can be transferred onto teaching grammar as well as vocabulary. Practicalexamples are taken from Inside Out, a new coursebook for young adults and adults.Target audience: ALLMacmillan CD-ROMs and interactive whiteboard sowftwareThis session will demonstrate the use of various Macmillan CD-ROMs with interactive whiteboards. The presented products willinclude sofware for all ages, from children to adults and business English.