Guided discovery and consciousness raising activities in teaching grammar (17th June)

Online communities (2nd June)
This practical workshop looked at the theory behind successful developmental communities, some real examples of such communities and some of the tools used to create them.
Presenter – Gavin Dudeney, project director of The Consultants-E company, teacher trainer, founder of Second Life EduNation island, author of How to Teach English with Technology
Online communities

Teaching with the web – practical activities to use in the classroom (3d June)
Presenter – Gavin Dudeney
Teaching with the web

Digital resources for young learners: advantages and disadvantages (4th June)
Digital resources

EAP and ESP - making academic English discipline-specific (28th May)
This is a joint seminar with Garnet Education Publishing and CenterCom held by Mr. Christopher Graham - Warwick University BA Hons. Politics Marketing and academic consultant
EAP and ESP - making academic English discipline-specific

Premier skills materials pilot
At this workshop we piloted some of the new materials for the classroom developed recently by the British Council. (14th May)

The power of lists
We were broadcasting MacMillan webinar (on-line seminar) by Lindsay Clandfield. (13th May)

Teaching language skills and the European Language Portfolio
(29th April)
ELP

Digital Resources for Teachers and Learners in Primary School
This is a joint seminar with MacMillan Publishers Ltd held by  Galanina Natalia Ivanovna - the methodist in MacMillan (23th April)

From the Learner Corpus to Learner Autonomy: Bridging the Gap from FCE to CAE
This is a joint seminar with Cambridge University Press presented by Guy Brook-Hart - an experienced teacher, the author of Business Benchmark, Complete First Certificate Complete CAE (20th April)
From the Learner Corpus to Learner Autonomy

Brilliant Ideas for Brilliant Teachers (Developing pupils' key competences at English lessons in primary school) (16th April)
This is a joint seminar with MacMillan Publishers Ltd.
Brilliant Ideas for Brilliant Teachers

Planning Lessons with the integration of the European Language Portfolio (15th April)
Presentation

"From English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) - using English as the teaching medium for non-English subject majors in Higher Education and Universities" (9 April 2009)
This is a joint seminar with Garnet Education Publishing and CenterCom.
Presentation

The European Language Portfolio as the future of world assessment:  Introduction to the use of the ELP (1 April 2009)

Best ELT sites (26 March 2009)
 Best ELT sites

E-projects (19 March 2009)
E-projects

Interactive whiteboard – general introduction (12 March 2009)

Creating video tutorials (Сamstudio) (5 March 2009)
Creating Video tutorials

Premier Skills DVD (26 February 2009)
At this seminar you will be introduced to a DVD where Premier League footballers talking about how they learned English and their experiences of living in the UK. The DVD is supported by teaching materials and is an interesting tool to add real life situations to your English lessons.
Premier Skills

Webquests (19 February 2009)
Webquests

Cambridge Financial English (11 February 2009)
This is a joint seminar with Cambridge University Press where the participants were introduced to the ways of designing a programme of teaching Financial English using the latest Cambridge materials.
Presenter: Nicholas Robinson - ELT Consultant and teacher trainer, UK.
Seminar details
Cambridge Financial English

Creating communicative reality in the ELT classroom on the basis of Power Point (12 February 2009)
Creating PowerPoint presentation
Creating PowerPoint presentation

Producing electronic materials (5 February 2009)
Producing Electronic Materials
Producing Electronic Materials (2 Mb)

TKT products (26 January 2009)
Representatives form CUP, Cambridge ESOL and British Council will tell about Teaching Knowledge Test and other products related to it.
TKT seminar

ICT tools for teaching vocabulary (29 January 2009)
ICT tools for teaching vocabulary

Community sites (22 January 2009)
Useful resources

ICT tools for teaching speaking (15 January 2009)
Useful resources
Speaking skills

Information search and bookmarking (23 December 2008)
Searching for info
Search techniques

YouTube and TeacherTube for teaching English (11 December 2008)
YuoTube
YouTube - a rich source of authentic video and audio

Blogs for teaching English (27 November 2008)
Blogs in language teaching
Blogging in ELT (4 Mb)

Wikis for teaching English (13 November 2008)
Wiki session handout
Wiki presentation (8 Mb)

Evaluating websites (30 October 2008)
Evaluation of web resources - Answer sheet
The Internet

Audio podcasts for teaching English (16 October 2008)
Podcasting in ELT
Podcasts