ELT Ideas národná konferencia vydavateľstva Macmillan Education

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1 ELT Ideas národná konferencia vydavateľstva Macmillan Education pre učiteľov anglického jazyka všetkých typov škôl za účasti delegáta MŠVVaŠ SR (pondelok) od 8:15 do 16:45 Košice Hotel Centrum (Dom Techniky) Južná trieda 2054/2A Košice Oproti AUPARKU Možnosť ubytovania: Hotel Centrum: cena: 1 lôžková izba: 40, 2 lôžková izba: 50, mestská daň: 1,50 / osobu. Kontakt: [email protected], tel.: , Prihláste sa najneskôr do 22. apríla 2015 na:

2 ELT Ideas 15 Programme 8:15 8:45 REGISTRÁCIA 8:45 9:15 - Koncepcia informatizácie a digitalizácie v školstve, Mgr. art. Erika Niepelová, MŠVVaŠ 9:15 10:15 PLENARY - Why won t the little beasts behave?, Péter Medgyes (in Darwin) room 10:30 11:30 11:30 12:00 12:00 13:00 13:00 14:00 14:00 15:00 15:10 16:10 Einstein Volt Darwin Humour in the classroom: Laughing Matters Péter Medgyes Communicating Confidently and Competently Emma Fuller P Chalk and Cheese: Teaching mixed ability primary classes UP COFFEE BREAK DISPLAY Survivor s Teaching Guide (Listening and Speaking) It s personal so it matters! Natalia Ladygina Zuzana Straková P,UP Warmers and Coolers for young adults/adults A, SS LUNCH DISPLAY Children learning English. Cross-curriculum aspect Natalia Ladygina P,UP Motivating the Unmotivated: Teenagers in the classroom Emma Fuller UP Teaching with a twist Marcela Kováčová SS Engaging students with Readers Nick Goode Learning Lexis Naturally: Teaching children vocabulary P Tesla Go Beyond Regular Teaching Martin Jelínek SS SALE Real Materials : Bringing Gate Magazine Into Your Classroom Auburn Scallon UP, SS SALE Tablets, smartphones and IWBs for learning English Ondřej Matuška New global approach in business Martin Jelínek A, B 16:15 RAFFLE Vysvetlivky P MŠ a 1. stupeň ZŠ (Pre-primary and Primary) UP 2. stupeň ZŠ, 8ročné gymnázia (Lower Secondary/Upper Primary) SS stredné školy (Upper Secondary) A Adult (jazykové školy, vysoké školy, výučba dospelých) pre učiteľov angličtiny všetkých typov škôl (all teachers) B biznis

3 Péter Medgyes E L T ideas ELT Ideas 15 Programme Péter Medgyes, CBE, is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy. During his career he was a schoolteacher, teacher trainer, vice rector, deputy state secretary and ambassador of Hungary. He was a plenary speaker in 45 countries and author of numerous books and articles published both in Hungary and abroad, including The Non-Native Teacher (Macmillan, 1994, winner of the Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition), The Language Teacher (Corvina, 1997), Laughing Matters (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Golden Age: Twenty Years of Foreign Language Education in Hungary (National Textbook Publishing Company, 2011). At present he is president-elect of IATEFL. His main professional interests lie in language policy and teacher education, with a special emphasis on nonnative English speaking teachers. He can be reached at [email protected]. Plenary: Why won t the little beasts behave? After nearly twenty years of absence, I returned to the classroom to teach a group of 15-year-olds. I held out for two years before the kids had made mincemeat of me. Why was I unable to cope? Are the kids any worse today than their predecessors were? Anyway, what is classroom discipline? How do you judge the train disobey punish obey paradigm? If without discipline there is no effective teaching, why do ELT authors still give this problem short shrift? And why don t teachers discuss it either? By the way, to which category of teacher do you belong: that of the strict and scary, the firm but fun, or the soft and shaky teacher? How does the reflective teacher view classroom discipline and the problems relating to it? Laughing Matters This workshop invites participants to share their ideas and experience about the role of fun and laughter. Whenever the dialogue creaks to a halt, we ll dip into the bottomless well of humour, and indulge in activities meant to be funny AND linguistically useful. Emma Fuller I have been with Macmillan Education's Marketing Department for a year; previous to this I was a teacher of English in Italy, South Korea, Malaysia and Japan for a total of eight years, including two years as a teacher trainer presenting at workshops, conferences and in schools. I am a CELTA-qualified teacher and have taught both adults and children and am now putting my teaching skills at the heart of promoting primary learning. Target audience: P Communicating Confidently and Competently Students misunderstanding what s required of them for an activity can lead to frustration for both the teacher and the students, wasted time or unnecessary use of the students first language. This session focuses on effective and competent classroom communication, building the confidence of teachers and therefore students and in turn establishing routine. Using activities from Tiger Time, you will be involved in some practical, communicative activities that you can take away and use in your own classroom. Target audience: UP Motivating the Unmotivated: Teenagers in the classroom Teenagers often see themselves as too cool for school they can lack enthusiasm, attention and a willingness to learn. Using activities from English World, prepare to get on your feet and be motivated with a range of practical ideas adapted for different class levels that get your students collaborating, wanting to learn and looking forward to classes. Natalia Ladygina I m an English teacher, a teacher trainer, a CELTA tutor and a Cambridge speaking examiner. Being Russian, I am currently based in Vienna, Austria, and work face-to-face with groups of Austrian students and via Skype with students and teachers from other parts of the world. I tend to reflect on my teaching and learning, and these reflections inspire me to design new activities and approaches and try them out in my classroom. I always willingly share my ideas on how to make our classroom activities more meaningful and relevant to our students, and, what is more important, how to make them REAL-LIFE tasks.

4 Target audience: P, UP Children learning English. Cross-curriculum aspect. Increasingly more children nowadays start learning English at very early stages of their education. However, when English is taught as a stand-alone subject, a lot of students fail to apply their knowledge when they have to cope with real-life tasks. I believe that most of already published cross-curriculum materials can be successfully used in the classroom. However, it is of utmost importance for teachers to ask themselves the following questions: How can this activity be developed further?, What non-linguistic skills will my students acquire or polish?. We are going to have a close look at using cross-curriculum activities with young learners (aged 7-11) as a means of raising children s awareness of the world around them; developing their linguistic competence; developing their non-linguistic skills, e.g. negotiating, exchanging information, making informed decisions, etc; increasing their motivation; stimulating creativity in the classroom; developing learners autonomy; helping learners to develop their talents. Target audience: A Survivor s teaching guide Part 1. (listening and speaking) Are you sure your students are well prepared for real life? Before moving to Vienna three months ago, I had had no doubts that I was teaching the language and skills my students needed for real life communication. But Vienna welcomed me with all possible kinds of language and communication difficulties, which made me, an experienced English teacher and a low level learner of German, reconsider the value of what normally happens in the classroom. I would like to share some of my insights and show practical activities, how to help adult learners get better prepared for using a foreign language in real life. Nick Goode Nick Goode is a Regional Manager for Macmillan Education Central Europe. Based in London, England he travels frequently both for work and in his freetime. He has previously worked as an English Language teacher in Prague, Czech Republic and more recently in Seville, Spain teaching adult learners in various companies around the city. Engaging students with Readers In this practical workshop we will be looking at ways to use graded readers in class, including a range of activities designed to get students to buy in to these wonderful resources. This workshop also includes an overview of what a graded reader actually is, for example the mechanics of how the texts are graded down and the scope of the current Macmillan Readers range. is a freelance teacher trainer, ELT writer and ELT consultant. After graduating in English and Aesthetics, she gained an RSA DELTA, a PgCert in Education and a PgCert in Coaching (Modern Foreign Languages). She has worked in ELT since 1997, mainly in the UK as an EFL teacher, teacher trainer and subject learning coach, teaching on courses for young learners, teenagers and adults, training on the Trinity Cert TESOL and Exam Assessors Courses, and coaching teachers. She has also cooperated with Macmillan both as a teacher trainer and author, and presents regularly at ELT conferences in Central and Eastern Europe. She is especially interested in the theory of learning, motivational teaching strategies, and differentiated learning. Target audience: P Learning Lexis Naturally: Teaching children vocabulary In this workshop we will look at how teachers can help young learners broaden their vocabulary solely in the target language, without the use of L1 instruction or translation. We will explore a range of teaching strategies and activities that introduce and practise vocabulary through pictures, stories, songs and games, which are not just fun, but are also meaningful for the children we teach. Target audience: UP Chalk and Cheese: Teaching mixed ability primary classes In this seminar we will look at the challenges teachers face when teaching classes with mixed learning abilities. We will look at why classes have mixed abilities and at activities that can help the teacher find a balance to keep the strongest and the weakest pupils on board, addressing the needs of a wide range of learner abilities, sensory learning styles and levels within the class.

5 Target audience: A, SS Warmers and Coolers for young adults/adults 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. Ondřej Matuška Ondřej Matuška is a Teacher Trainer and Sales Manager at Macmillan Education Czech Republic. He has several years' experience teaching adults and teenagers in general English as well as exam preparation courses at one of the largest language schools in the Czech Republic. He regularly gives talks at universities about the topics of language corpora and learner dictionaries. Tablets, smartphones and IWBs for learning English Tablets, smartphones and IWBs have become our daily companions. Come and learn how you can easily convert them into state-of-the-art learning and teaching tools which take the learning process to the next level. Zuzana Straková Zuzana Straková is a TEFL specialist and has been teaching and working with preservice trainees, trainers and in-service teachers since She is the head of English Language and Literature De partment at the Institute of British and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Prešov University. Recent years of her research has been devoted to TEYL. She has supervised several successful pro jects with this orientation and has piloted several innovative approaches in her own YL classes. She has conducted numerous lectures, seminars and workshops for pre-service and in-service English language teachers.. Target audience: P, UP It s personal so it matters! This presentation looks at a very important factor in the learning process in general personalization of the subject matter, which makes the change in the approach of learners to the outcomes or learning products. Even at primary or lower secondary level it is important to connect the focus of the lesson with the experience and personal interests of learners. However, the time pressure often prevents teachers from thinking about taking one step further beyond the textbook task. If we resign to keeping the subject matter general it will not become important to learners. If it becomes personal they can find the place for it in their internal life. So it will not just pass by Marcela Kováčová Marcela's professional career covers over 17 years of teaching English to Primary and Secondary students along with teacher training. She is constantly in touch with the latest development in ELT, eager to escape the traditional language classroom and let the students experience something unusual and unexpected. Target audience: SS Teaching with a twist Even the best of textbooks need a little 'gravy' to be chewed and digested. With ideas for 'spicing up' a textbook, some totally fuss-free, some more laborious, let me take you on a little methodology tour of one of the best secondary English courses, Gateway.

6 Martin Jelínek Martin is the founder and owner of the Bright House Language Institute which focuses on teaching and learning innovation, communication and presentation skills. Martin has 15 years of experience and has worked for private and state language schools as well as universities. His last overseas placement took him to Honduras, where he taught ESL classes at Unitec, Laureate International Universities and was voted the Teacher of the Year for Besides running his own business, he works as an assistant lecturer at University of Presov, Institute of English and American Studies, where he teaches Speech Communication and Language Competence. Martin is also an active Cambridge Oral Examiner for the BULATS and FCE examinations. Martin is listed with Macmillan Education as a freelance Teacher Trainer. Target audience: SS Go Beyond Regular Teaching In this workshop you will find out how important it is to provide students with material that they ll find engaging and motivating, and you will find easy to set up and use in the classroom. Good learning materials contribute to students development of self-confidence and independence. The main focus of my workshop is to show you how you can help your students to use English confidently and fluently outside the classroom. Target audience: B New global approach in business Focus on delivering a strong, skills-based materials, which are up to date, follow business trends and everyday business scenarios while demonstrating a functional language in business context. New global approach in International businesses. Auburn Scallon Auburn Scallon works as an editor for Bridge Publishing House, producing Bridge Magazine and Gate Magazine for students learning English. She is a Cambridge-certified English teacher who enjoys teaching young learners, teenagers and business English at language schools in the Czech Republic. She is also a freelance writer who enjoys writing about the Czech Republic for English language websites such as Expats.cz, OpusOsum.com and the Eating Prague blog. Originally from Seattle, she has also lived in New York City, Boston, Greece, New Zealand, Prague and Liberec, which she calls her European hometown. Real Materials : Bringing Gate Magazine Into Your Classroom What s the difference between an English learner s magazine and an English textbook? Both have articles, both have exercises, but we can use them very differently. Join us at one of our Bridge Spring seminars this April for practical tips on how to use Gate magazine in the classroom and make your lesson planning for the week as easy as possible!