Many schools seek to increase their English offering both in terms of programme and in terms of time through offering "workshops". New teachers are often asked to offer such a workshop without much in the way of preparation or guidance, while even those with experience look for support and new ideas. This session provides a road-map to a successful English Workshop and ideas you can incorporate into yours.
At a basic level, verbs can be divided into transitive or intransitive, however this division is not always basic. English has many transitive / intransitive uses of the same verb and different pair-forms of several common verbs, and of course phrasal verbs enter the discussion.
Known by Cambridge International as Early Years and by Cambridge English as Very Young Learners and in the US as Early Childhood, this group spans approximately ages 3 - 8. We are pleased to offer the following sessions, just for Early Years teachers.
Let's eat Grandma.
Let's eat, Grandma?
Let's eat. Grandma!
Punctuation matters, it can even save lives. Join us as we review complex and problematic uses of commas and full-stops in English.
Small groups offer one of the most effective classroom approaches, and some recent research shows what works and what can be counter-productive when it comes to reading development and practice.
This session reviews the findings from five international studies into best practice at the Lower Primary level (G1 - 4), and provide useful insights for Upper Primary / Lower Secondary (G5 - 8). Although conducted into English Teaching & Learning practice, they are also applicable to programmes in other languages.
Teachers often ask how to incorporate learning outside the classroom into their programme, and how to do so cheaply, effectively and in a teacher-friendly way. Field Trips can be the answer, and since transportation is a Grade Four topic in the Chilean national curriculum, combining the two does the old two birds and one stone thing.
This session provides four successful, no-cost or low-cost plug-and-play Field Trips, and although aimed at Lower Primary teachers, the activities are also applicable to Middle School and can easily be adapted.
Dates are like points in time but don't follow the same rule, and in effect are names for those points. This one-hour single-topic session reviews the names and structures of dates, and other periods of time, and related usages and of course the old prepositional bugbears. If time allows, we may also include a problem clinic.
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Class-time is so limited that doing some things beforehand can exponentially improve lesson effectiveness. Two related activities are receptive practice and pre-reading; if a student has already read a text, class work can take advantage of this.
When assigning pre-reading, how can a teacher be assured that it has actually been done? This session reviews eight quick-and-easy, plug-and-play, teacher-friendly reading checks, each of which incorporate Reading Comprehension, Use of English and Speaking. Participants will receive a ready-to-use Lower Primary / Middle School lesson!
