Description of Course Contents
A highly practical training programme which covers a broad span of teaching ideas and activities to enliven lessons and make them more motivating. This course will be taught interactively, with input, workshops and group work. Participants are expected to take an active role in all sessions, maximising their use of English, and experiencing for themselves the activities covered In the sessions. Teachers will be introduced, during the course, to various Web-based sites which they could use after the course.
Target Groups
The course is designer for teachers of English and other languages, who need to brush up on their English while taking a look at some new ideas to refresh their methods and techniques. Participants need to be at a B1 level of English.
Aims of course
• To introduce new areas of teaching methodologies and accompanying techniques, using hands-on & experiential methods
• To introduce an awareness of technology and ICT in the classroom today
• To help teachers reflect on their own teaching methods & contexts & develop teaching skills
• To experience the cultural heritage of Malta with its bilingual linguistic environment
SAMPLE TIMETABLE
Monday
1. Engaging the Learner – What motivates today’s students?
2. Get them Talking! Encouraging your students to speak
3. Learner Styles & Multiple Intelligences
4. Welcome Get-Together
Tuesday
1. The Chemistry of Words – Collocation
2. The Dictation Revival
3. Songs & Music & their Learning Potential
4. Guided Half-Day Tour of Malta’s Capital City Valletta (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
Wednesday
1. Cuisenarie Rods & Language Learning
2. Teaching Language through Project Work
3. Language Development: Speaking Activity & Error Correction
Thursday
1. Tell me a Story! Using stories in the classroom
2. Using Video and DVDs
3. Social Programme
4. Cruise of the Grand Harbour (Optional)
Friday
1. Grammar Practice Activities
2. Using Computers – Exploiting the Internet
3. Colloquial English and idiomatic language
Monday
1. Warmers, fillers and coolers
2. Learning Vocabulary
3. Using the Interactive Whiteboard
Tuesday
1. Using Humour for Language Learning
2. Dealing with Learner Errors
3. You Tube, Video clips & Learning
4. Guided Half-Day Tour to Medieval City of Mdina
Wednesday
1. Designing crosswords & quizzes
2. Techno-Learn: Blogs & Wikis
3. Using Concordances & Dictionaries for Vocabulary
Thursday
1. Making Pronunciation Fun
2. How we really speak
3. Social Programme
4. Neolithic Temples’ Tour - optional
Friday
1. Drama, Role play & Simulations
2. Language Development: Speaking Activity & Error Correction
3. Wikis & Introduction to the Teachers’ WIKI +, Course Evaluation and feedback
Przykładowe zajęcia dodatkowe:
diving *, golf *, mountain hiking
boat cruises *, city tour/walk, conversation practice, country walk/trekking, cultural activities, guided city tours, international evenings, orientation tour, pub and restaurant evenings, sightseeng
Valetta *, Megalithic temples *, Hypogeum Temple *, Mdina *, The Three Cities *, Blue Grotto *, Marsaxlokk *, Gozo *
* zajęcia dodatkowo płatne
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