This course is designed for teachers of English who wish to learn about new techniques, classroom activities and materials. It also provides an opportunity for teachers to enrich their knowledge of English through direct contact with the language and culture of Britain, and for interaction with fellow teachers from other countries.

Below is a selection of some of our most popular workshops. However, we aim to tailor the course to suit the needs and interests of each group, the details of which are obtained from participants completing our pre-course questionnaire.

• Approaches to teaching grammar
• Activities for Teaching tenses: problems and solutions
• Vocabulary: ideas for presenting and aiding memorisation of new vocabulary
• Speaking - motivating students for fluency
• Error correction: what matters, what doesn’t and how Ss can learn from it
• Using graded readers: creating multi-skilled lessons
• Creative writing and speaking
• Listening: micro-skills- not just pressing 'play'
• Teaching phonology: saying it like it is!
• Writing skills: focussing on the process as well as the product
• Exploiting songs
• Film: practical ideas for using films clips in lessons
• Using drama in the classroom: bringing English to life
• Lessons using the web - practical teaching ideas using specific websites
• Blogs and podcasts: innovative skills ideas using the Internet
• The interactive whiteboard: developing materials for the 21st century

Course Trainers and Guest Speakers

The course trainers are well-qualified, having a wide experience of teaching English as a foreign language and teacher training both in the U.K and overseas. Also, our staff are regularly involved in piloting and reviewing teaching materials as the school has strong links with publishers and authors. In addition, several of our trainers have been involved in the filming of the Result series teacher training Dvd’s.

Among the guest speakers for the course (providing they are available) are Vaughan Jones and Sue Kay, both well-established authors and teacher trainers. They are best known for writing the very successful Inside Out series, and Sue is also the author of the excellent Reward Resource packs.

• Mixed-nationality courses for teachers. 30 lessons per week.
• Course CTT1
  4 January to 15 January 2010
  Duration: 2 weeks
  Fee: £640.00
• Course CTT2
  29 March to 9 April 2010
  Duration: 2 weeks
  Fee: £640.00
• Course CTT3
  19 July to 30 July 2010
  Duration: 2 weeks
  Fee: £640.00
• Course CTT4
  2 August to 13 August 2010
  Duration: 2 weeks
  Fee: £640.00

English and Methodology for Teachers is also available on Course B; and on AB25 and AB30. Please contact us.

For more information please browse through our Online English for Teachers Brochure

All prices include course materials and most weekday and evening social activities.

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