The RECYCLING Conference

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1 The RECYCLING Conference brought to you by ILC International House Brno Teacher Training Centre When: Saturday, March 12 th 2016 from Where: ILC International House Brno, Sukova 2, 1 st floor What: Practical workshops and seminars, conference pack, lunch, raffle, after-conference drinks CONFERENCE PARTNERS AND PRESENTERS

2 GENERAL INFORMATION The venue ILC International House Brno, language school, Sukova 2, Brno T: , ; Take tram no. 1, 2, 4 or 11 to Malinovského náměstí. The school is about a two-minute walk from there, around the corner. On Arrival The entrance foyer of the school will be used for registration. The seminar rooms are on the first floor. Other Information: Drinks and refreshments will be provided on the first floor. There will be displays by a number of publishing companies. Enjoy the day! Important! A first-come, first-served system is used for each session. Once the room is full (i.e. no more seats), it will be at the presenter s discretion as to whether you can attend the session or not. REGISTRATION Please note that there are a limited number of places available so register now at This conference is accredited by the Czech Ministry of Education (1037/ ).

3 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE REGISTRATION MORNING SEMINARS CLASSROOM 1 CLASSROOM 2 CLASSROOM Backing up BE Freer Speaking Activities The Teacher's Toolbox: Practical activities for the busy teacher Lily-Anne Young Glenn Standish, IH Torun Nikki Fortova, OUP Warmers and Coolers for young adults/adults Are you an old-fashioned teacher? Life is integrated, so why isn t your teaching? Daniela Clarke, Macmillan Jon de la Fuente, IH Bratislava Charles Du Parc LUNCH & BOOK SALE Macmillan Education, Oxford University Press, ILC Czechoslovakia

4 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS CLASSROOM 1 CLASSROOM 2 CLASSROOM 3 Are you Picasso? Me neither. Using Dictionaries In and Out of Class Functional Language Revision Dave Cleary Handsfree: Using the course book without the course book Cathy Bowden, Akcent IH Prague Dramatic Moments Petra Mitáčková Adapting materials for mixed ability classes Mat Smith Anette Igel Regina Jiránková RAFFLE & DRINKS

5 THE ABSTRACTS MORNING SESSIONS I. SESSION 1: Backing up BE Lily-Anne Young, ILC IH Brno We will try out some of my favourite, tried, tested and trusted activities that I have used over the years in teaching BE. It will be a mix and match of several previous sessions and all bright, shiny and new too (as marketing people always tell you). Experience of teaching BE or of business is not necessary. "We're skill-sharing, brainstorming and networking" in this session as the professionals we are. P.S. We can have fun too. :) SESSION 2: Freer Speaking Activities Glenn Standish, International House Torun In this fun and practical session I will show how to get your students speaking and discussing freely about a range of topics in class with minimal input from the teacher! SESSION 3: The Teacher s Toolbox: Practical activities for the busy teacher Nikki Fortova, OUP If you've ever found yourself staring at your learners wishing you had a new or just different warmer, cooler or filler to try with the class, then this session is for you. My toolbox is bursting with tried and tested 5-minute activities, which are just the ticket if you've not had the time to prepare as thoroughly as you'd like, or you're just looking for some new ideas. Come and have a look what's inside.

6 MORNING SESSIONS II. SESSION 4: Warmers and Coolers for young adults/adults Daniela Clarke, Macmillan Without an effective start and a meaningful end a great lesson may not realise its full potential. In this workshop we will explore a number of short, enjoyable and communicative activities used as warmers to wake up, motivate and enthuse learners, and consider how coolers can be used effectively to wrap up and close a lesson. The warmers and coolers demonstrated in the workshop are versatile, and can be used in teaching both language and skills for all levels and abilities, with a view to making learning not just more fun, but also more productive. SESSION 5: Are you an old-fashined teacher? Jon de la Fuente, International House Bratislava When was the last time you made your students read a text out loud? How often do you tell your students they are wrong? Do you allow your studenst to use a dicionary in class? And what about translating into L1? Does your Teacher Talk Time take up half the lesson? In this workshop I would like to discuss these techniques and others, and present my case in favour of using them more often in the classroom. SESSION 6: Life is integrated, so why isn t your teaching? Charles Du Parc, ILC IH Brno Have you ever been to a conference where you sat down and listened for 10 minutes; read for 10 minutes; looked in a dictionary for 5 minutes; spoke with your neighbour for 5 minutes and wrote something for 10 minutes? Why then do so many of our lessons follow this sort of pattern? Life isn t an exam and most business students are not doing exams; they are studying English for real life. This session will explore methods of integrating the teaching of the four main skills, reading, writing, speaking and listening and practicing them in similar situations to those where students have to use English in their own work. In other words a way of learning language that better reflects how students actually use language in real life. Be prepared to bring along your own experiences and to get involved.

7 AFTERNOON SESSIONS I. SESSION 7: Are you Picasso? Me neither. Dave Cleary, ILC IH Brno I am not very good at drawing - in fact I am awful. But I still do it in class and you and your students should too, as pictures are an important learning tool. In this session we will look at several exercises where students draw their own pictures to help them learn and practice grammar and vocabulary. SESSION 8: Using Dictionaries In and Out of class Cathy Bowden, Akcent International House Prague How do you feel when your students reach for a dictionary or for the electronic one on their smart phone? Is dictionary use to be encouraged or discouraged? In this session we will look at when dictionaries can be helpful, activities that can be done with dictionaries, problems that learners can have with using a dictionary and types of dictionary. SESSION 9: Functional Language Revision Petra Mitáčková, ILC IH Brno Functional language is one of the most important parts of any language but also the hardest to teach and remember. This session will present several ways to practise the same lines and the same situations in different ways until they seem natural to your students.

8 AFTERNOON SESSIONS II. SESSION 10: Handsfree: Using the coursebook without the coursebook Mat Smith, ILC IH Brno Even though this was the first seminar I presented at an ILC conference when I came back from Spain, looking back through it reminds me how often I still fall back on these principles when planning and teaching lessons. It saves me time and my students seem to like using the course book without the course book I hope you will too. SESSION 11: Dramatic Moments Anette Igel, ILC IH Brno This workshop will give you some ideas how drama can be used for different areas of teaching, and be put in your lessons to spice them up. From 5 min to a nearly-full lesson plan, all activities require little preparation and material, perfect to be used last minute as well. All ideas are based on training in improvisational theatre. SESSION 12: Adapting materials for mixed ability classes Regina Jiránková, ILC IH Brno One of the hardest types of course to deal with is one where the students are of mixed levels, of mixed learning ability, or even both. The teacher has to find a balance between boring the faster, or higher level students, and losing the rest. I would like to offer some ideas of how you can support your weaker students and offer extension activities for your stronger students whilst using the same materials as the starting point for the class. This way the preparation time involved for the teacher isn t drastically higher, and the group can still work together for most of the class.

9 SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES Lily-Anne Young has now presented at numerous conferences on a widerange of topics. Having completed the LLCI Further Certificate for Teachers of Busines English, the IH COLT (Certificate in Online Teaching) and the IH TT (Teacher trainer) course she is currently undertaking a MOOC in Corpus Linguistics just for fun. Lily-Anne is a senior teacher and teacher trainer at IH ILC Brno as well as the co-ordinator and trainer for the IH BET1 course. Glenn Standish was originally born in New Zealand. He has been teaching English in Poland for 13 years and is currently the Director of Studies of IH Torun. He is also an inspector for International House World Organisation and a Cambridge oral examiner. During summer months he runs English language summer schools in the UK. This is his first time to beautiful Brno! Nikki Fortova has been involved in English language teaching since 2002 in the UK and the Czech Republic. Nikki is CELTA and DELTA qualified, an oral examiner for the Cambridge suite of exams, and a CELTA tutor. She is currently working as an English language teacher and teacher trainer at Masaryk University in Brno, and has just finished an M.A. in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. As well as teaching and teacher training, she is interested in the application of technology to language learning and teaching, and is currently running the ICT for English Language Teaching course at Masaryk University. Nikki has presented internationally on the topic of technology-enhanced language learning. In addition to her role in the English department, Nikki is a freelance teacher trainer for OUP, as well as for International House World Organisation s Online Teacher Training Institute, where she helps to design and manage online courses and the virtual learning environment Moodle.

10 Daniela Clarke Daniela is a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer. She has been involved in ELT since 1997, mainly in the UK, where she taught a range of students from young learners to adults, and trained and coached teachers. She has cooperated with Macmillan both as a teacher trainer and author. Daniela currently lives and works in the Czech Republic and presents regularly at ELT conferences in Central and Eastern Europe. Jon de la Fuente is an English teacher who has been teaching English all over the world since He has been in charge of a preboarding school program for Chinese students as well as being a teacher ambassador in Japan. He is currently the Director of Studies at IH Bratislava where he also teaches General and Business English. Charles du Parc spent the earlier part of his career in business in the UK. For much of the time he was involved in Management Training for a multi-national retail company. As part of this he completed a one year part time course organised by Cranfield School of Management. For the last eight years, after completing the CELTA course in Prague, he has been teaching English in the Czech Republic. He has wide experience teaching at ILC, where he is involved in teacher mentoring and teacher training; in addition he is a regular presenter at ILC conferences. He also teaches in a Gymnasium and has also given teacher training courses for state school teachers. Dave Cleary is a DELTA qualified English language teacher and teacher trainer living and working in Brno. He came to the Czech Republic in the summer of 2000 and has worked here ever since. Towards the end of his first year Dave went with a colleague to a teacher development session, his first, and from that moment he has been interested in teacher development; both his own and that of others. Dave s first teacher training experience was to his peers, and for more than a decade he has written and delivered teacher training sessions at both international conferences and on local training courses.

11 Cathy Bowden is a teacher and teacher trainer based at AKCENT IH Prague. She has been teaching English since 1996, in Lithuania, Brno (at ILC IH Brno) and Prague and is still learning. Petra Mitáčková studied English and History at Masaryk University, where she also took the Teacher Training Course. She has been teaching English at ILC IH Brno since 2003, and did the IH CYLT in 2012 because she wanted to be able to teach her own children. Eventually it became so interesting that she has been working more in this field to become an experienced YL teacher. Matthew (Mat) Smith, ILC IH Brno Mat is an English teacher and teacher trainer. He started teaching in 2004 and since then has worked in the Czech Republic, Spain and England. Since returning to Brno in 2008, he has taken the DELTA and become more involved in teacher development, presenting at conferences and tutoring on both face-to-face and online training courses Anette Igel, ILC IH Brno Anette has been working as a teacher of English since Before that she worked as a social worker and drama teacher, travelled part of the world for three years, and after taking her TESOL in Prague settled down in Brno. She is a teacher trainer for the IHCYLT (International House Certificate in Teaching Young Learners and Teenagers) and has presented at several conferences in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and online for IH world. As a teacher trainer she has also worked in countries like Turkey, Croatia and Azerbaijan. Currently she is the ADoS for Teacher Development at ILC IH Brno and a freelance teacher trainer for SELT Academy in Istanbul,Turkey. Regina Jiránková is an English language teacher and teacher trainer living and working in Brno. She teaches all levels and is especially successful at teaching all kinds of exam classes. She also works as an examiner for the British Council and as a teacher trainer including the lead trainer on the IH1-2-1 course.