Seminar title | Description |
How to Communicate with Low Level Learners | At this session we'll:
look at the ways of making teacher talk clear and efficient;
practise giving clear instructions;
evaluate different teacher-student interaction patterns. |
Grammar at Advanced Levels | It's a language awareness session covering some tricky aspects of advanced grammar: verb forms, noun phrases, sentence grammar, etc. It's aimed at those who are teaching/going to teach higher levels or exam classes, as well as everyone fascinated by the complexity and ambiguity of the English grammar system. |
Language Awareness Workshop | We are going to revise a variety of grammar issues doing short tasks. We'll be identifying and analyzing parts of speech, verb forms, sentence structure and some other controversial LA concepts that might help you boost your confidence teaching grammar to high levels. |
Using Audio-Visual Resources | In recent feedback from students, a comment across all levels was that there was not enough use made of the Video/DVD. And when it is used in class, there is far more that can be done with it rather than simply sticking on an episode of 'Friends' or 'Fawlty Towers' as an end of term 'treat'. In this seminar we'll look at a few different ways to exploit this resource with an added seasonal twist. |
Teaching Future (a mixture of language awareness and teaching methodology). | There is no such thing as the Future Tense in English. Then what patterns are used to refer to events not yet occurred? What functions do they perform? This session also suggests some new contexts/ways for teaching Future… and for your future teaching. |
Adverbials | Sentences have three constituents: complements, verbs, adverbials. The adverbial function covers a hotchpotch of forms and meanings so there is some confusion of terminology and treatment in standard teaching materials. |
