January 2020
Support, Challenge and Choice in Colegio Vizcaya, Bilbao
How can we challenge and support all the students in our classrooms and give them a choice (and a say) in what they do?
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Preparing students for the 2020 A2 Key and B1 Preliminary exams Exams for Young Learners - Preparing students for Listening, Writing and Speaking tasks
Find out more »Young Learners: The path to successful young speakers and writers
Heading back to Barcelona for this seminar. It covers lots of themes that I'm working on a lot right now in training sessions and materials writing! Looking forward to it!
Find out more »C1 Advanced Speaking and B2 First for Schools Reading and Use of English
I'll be heading back to San Sebastian (lovely city) on 31st January to meet with some familiar (and new) teachers. Many of them will stay for both sessions, some won't because of their busy schedules. I'll learn new things myself and revisit others and also reflect on some things that maybe I haven't reflected on for a while! Hope to see some of you there!
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Using your Coursebook to Prepare A2 and B1 Skills and Language and the Assessment of Listening
After a couple days' travelling (Barcelona and San Sebastian), I'll be heading to Oviedo to give two seminars. I've been sharing tips and ideas with quite a few groups of teachers recently on 2020 A2 Key and B1 Preliminary, but this seminar will take a different angle. And Listening is a skill which often proves very challenging for a lot of students, so I'll be considering different listening skills, listening exam tasks and how we can help students in this…
Find out more »CEP Santander Writing Course for Secondary
This first session of the course will review and discussion of how we assess writing according to the Common European Framework through sample writings and mark schemes.
Find out more »Critical Thinking and B2 and C1 Speaking at Urban School, Barcelona
I've been working a lot on the subject of Critical Thinking in recent talks and also when I was writing for Fun Skills Levels 3 and 5. But that has mainly been directed at Primary and Secondary, generally. In this session, I'll be sharing ideas for training students at B2 and C1 to think critically and express their ideas about their thinking in English!
Find out more »CEP Santander Writing Course for Secondary – final day
On the last afternoon of this course, we will discuss the task and the outcomes from the course and a look at some useful online tools/webpages for working on writing.
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