On this page you can find a report of our English for the Future Conference, held on 22 and 23 March 2011 in Milan at FAST Conference Centre, Piazzale Morandi. The 22nd of March focussed on Scuola Primaria and Scuola Media; the 23rd of March focussed on Scuola Superiore.
The conference attracted over 400 participants. It was designed in collaboration with the Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Lombardia, Relazioni Internazionali e lingue straniere and had the support of several sponsors and partners which were exhibiting at the conference venue:
ACLE - AISLI - Cambridge ESOL - Cambridge University Press - City & Guilds - De Agostini Scuola, Black Cat, Garzanti Linguistica, Petrini, Valmartina - Express Publishing - ELI - Helbling Languages - LEND - Loescher Editore - Macmillan - Oxford University Press - Pearson Longman - Principato - Europass - Snail Publishing - Speak UP - The Open University - Trinity College London - VisitBritain - Zanichelli Editore - English 24 - Sole 24 Ore Scuola
Our conference aims were to help teachers to enhance their ability to teach the skills their students require for their future in English.
Presentations and workshops looked at how to most effectively help students reach the required CEF levels in elementary, middle and high schools by giving not just theory, but also practical ideas. We also looked at innovations in teaching including CLIL, Bilingual projects and multiculturalism in the classroom and how these will influence teaching in the future.
Here you can download the final programme (PDF, 4MB) of the Conference, with abstracts and biodata of all of our speakers.
Some of the speakers have made their presentations and/or handouts available. You can download them here:
- Roberta Pugliese, Bilingual Education in Italy (PDF)
- Sofia Pennacchi and Danja Nebuloni, Visit Britain (PDF, 3MB)
- Coral George, Phonics International (PDF, 1.5MB)
- Coral George, handouts 1 (PDF)
- Coral George, handouts 2 (PDF)
- Coral George, handouts 3 (Word)
- Jessica Smith, TKT CLIL (Word)
- Luisanna Paggiaro, The Gardener Toolbox (ppt, 1.5MB)
- Luke Prodromou, Mixed Abilties (ppt, 6MB)
- Luke Prodromou, Voices from the Classroom (ppt, 5MB)
- Margaret Layton, Using Technology (Word)
- Richard Johnstone, Good Practice (ppt)
- Sandra Plai, Rhymes and Action Rhymes for Very Young Learners (Word)
- Sandra Plai, Self-directed development (ppt)
- Sheila Brannigan, Theme based approaches (ppt, 3.5MB)
- Rebecca Mason, Talking Teens (ppt)
- Paola Vettorel, Laura Garbin, Rita Micheletto, Roberta Reniero, Xmas, trees and message salads (ppt)
- Nayr Ibrahim, How children become Bilingual (ppt)
- Nayr Ibrahin, How children become bilingual, bibliography (Word)
- Georgina Lovera Di Maria, Against all odds (pdf)
- Gemma Webber. Teaching Vocabulary (ppt)
- Gemma Webber, Teaching Vocabulary Lesson Plan (Word)
- Erica Damien, CLIL (PDF)
More information: eltconference.milan@britishcouncil.it
|
