Know it-Teach it: Grammar
- develops your own language awareness and grammar terminology
- explores the major areas of English grammar, helping you build your confidence in presenting language clearly and dealing with students' errors
- demonstrates interesting student-centred activities
- examines how to teach grammar in an engaging and authentic way
Know it-Teach it: Pronunciation
- raises your awareness of the sound systems of English and examines common areas of difficulty for students
- explores how to teach pronunciation in a memorable and fun way
- introduces pronunciation games, activities and correction techniques for learners of all ages
- helps you to confidently teach learners to use the sounds of English for clear communication
Know it-Teach it: Speech and Drama
- examines the rationale for using process drama to support learning across the curriculum
- introduces warm up games and activities to improve learning
- explores teacher friendly tools and techniques to improve student confidence with speaking
- helps you become more confident at leading drama activities for your own classroom
Know it-Teach it: Vocabulary
- explores how a lack of vocabulary impacts reading comprehension, writing skills and subject area understanding as well as overall academic success
- examines the dimensions of knowing a word in order to support students moving words from passive to active vocabulary and use new words in spoken and written language
- provides guidelines and frameworks for acquiring new vocabulary
- how to plan robust vocabulary lessons through explicit teaching and thought provoking follow up
Intensive Grammar: A refresher
- revisits basic terminology and common structures, including parts of speech, modals and conditionals
- demonstrates different approaches to present and clarify grammar, incorporating an overview of tenses
- gives participants practice in dealing with errors in the classroom
- helps you explain and correct student errors
Intensive Vocabulary (6-hour)
- introduces key concepts in vocabulary learning and teaching
- explores how to record, review and recycle vocabulary to “make it stick”
- demonstrates a variety of techniques and activities and gives participants practice with these.
- looks at how vocabulary can be integrated into lessons and gives participants practice in designing their own tasks
Introduction to Teaching Business English (3-hour)
- identifies key focus areas in Business English training
- explores the importance of needs analysis and how to tailor activities to client needs
- looks at designing lessons around work-related texts and situations
Introduction to Teacher Training and Development (3-hour)
- explores how to identify teacher development goals and appropriate professional development strategies
- helps participants with considerations when designing and delivering professional development sessions
- looks at how to approach observation and give feedback effectively
Teaching Students of Different Abilities
- looks at the nature of differentiation and differentiated instruction
- guides teachers in developing and adapting materials to meet the need of students with different abilities
- equips teachers with approaches and strategies to scaffold differentiated learning and assessment of language and skills
- lets teachers try out developing their own differentiated lesson materials