Developing and Strengthening Interpersonal Bonds in the New Classrooms through Language Tasks

Developing and Strengthening Interpersonal Bonds in the New Classrooms through Language Tasks

Silvana Giménez Amadeo

Have you ever felt that your groups were missing something? Have you sometimes wondered how to connect to your students? How to make of your class a real group?
This session explores ways in which we can create bonds with our learners and engage them emotionally with each other, with us and with our lesson. Full of  plenty of simple, varied and fun activities that will make your learners just love your lessons.

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Nick Jonas Video “Who I Am”

Cherubism Video – Victoria Wright

Using Authentic Material

Using Authentic Material

Maggie Healy

Based on a session by Silvana Giménez Amadeo in 2009

There’s lots of talk around these days about using authentic material in the classroom and while it’s a wonderful resource for language teaching there are also some drawbacks and pitfalls to watch out for. Sourcing suitable material is very important and so is designing a suitable task and gauging it well to the level of your students. Setting achievable gist and detailed tasks or creating a guided discovery lesson can be challenging. This session aims at brainstorming some ways that we can extract a quality lesson from sample authentic material.

2011-05-18 – Authentic Material – Sample worksheets  2011-09-19 – Authentic Material – Handout  Authentic Material – Theory

Music & Lyrics: Anything you can do with a text, you can do with a song

Music & Lyrics: Anything you can do with a text, you can do with a song

Lucila Ferrari & Vanesa Covini

Why do you think that some songs stick in your head?  Have you ever thought about the story behind a song?  Do you think you can learn and have fun at the same time?  This workshop will give you some ideas on how to use English in motivating and creative ways.

Anything you can do with a text session hand-out