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Teachers' Centre Programme 2008/2009 - Provisional

Month

Secondary
All sessions on Tuesdays
14.30-16.30/17.30-19.30

2º & 3º Ciclos
Sessions on Tuesdays 14.30-16.30
17.30-19.30

Literature
Sessions on Wednesdays
14.30-16.30

Conversation 
Sessions on Wednesdays
14.30-16.30

October
 
7th
Developing and Testing Conversational Skills

How can we help our learners develop their ability to take part in conversation.   This session will also look at ways of assessing speaking skills.
21st
Short and Snappy
Quick activities that engage young learners right from the start.
15th 29th
November 4th
Critical Thinking Skills

This seminar will offer a variety of tasks and ideas to encourage students to think, make decisions and justify their decisions in English.
18th
Language Diaries

Using journals and diaries to record the wealth of language that is covered in the classroom.
12th 26th
December 2nd
The Phonemic Chart

This session will demonstrate easy and efficient ways of exploiting the phonemic chart to help our learners improve their pronunciation.
9th
An Ideas Box

Every teacher has favourite activities that hey know always "work".   In this session, we revisit some classics and explore some new ideas..
5th 12th
January 6th
Exploiting Short News Stories

This session explores short news stories for contextualised vocabulary development and for raising awareness of lexical and grammatical cohesion.            
20th
"Why do I have to learn English?"
Facts and figures, together with practical ideas, to motivate your learners.
14th 28th
February 3rd
Using Multiple Intelligence in Class

This session explores multiple intelligences and ideas on how to cater for them in the English classroom..
19th
Dictation with a Twist

We look at different ways of using dictation with young learners..
11th 18th
March 3rd
Articles

An overview of the function of articles in the noun phrase together with tasks and strategies for working articles into a communicative lesson.
17th
Assessing Young Learners

As we move into the "testing" period of the year, a chance to reflect on what information we need, how to get it and how to record it.
11th 25th
April 14th
A Wealth of Material

Teachers may sometimes feel overwhelmed by all the material that we have on offer.   A look at how we can critically select from the vast wealth on offer.          
28th
Technology-light Teaching

Ideas to help you make the most of technology even when you don't have access to many resources. 
22nd 29th
May 5th
State of the Art
What's new in ELT?   What's old?   What do you already know and what do you want to explore next?
19th
Stories for all Ages

Ideas to develop our learners' ability to listen to, tell, read and write stories in English.
13th 27th

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