A series of webinars giving you a sneak preview of our new 2012 courses
27th February to 2nd March 2012
Michael Harris, Anna Sikorzynska, Bob Hastings
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| TIME | AUTHOR | WEBINAR | ||||
| Monday 27th February 2012 | London | 14:00 | Bob Hastings | What makes Success a success? | About this webinar | |
| New York | 09:00 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 22:00 | |||||
| Warsaw | 15:00 | |||||
| Tuesday 28th February 2012 | London | 14:00 | Anna Sikorzynska | Face new challenges with renewed confidence | About this webinar | |
| New York | 09:00 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 22:00 | |||||
| Warsaw | 15:00 | |||||
| Tuesday 28th February 2012 | London | 17:00 | Michael Harris | All About Choices | About this webinar | |
| New York | 12:00 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 01:00 | |||||
| Warsaw | 18:00 | |||||
| Wednesday 29th February 2012 | London | 17:00 | Anna Sikorzynska | Face new challenges with renewed confidence | About this webinar | |
| New York | 12:00 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 01:00 | |||||
| Warsaw | 18:00 | |||||
| Thursday 1st March 2012 | London | 17:00 | Bob Hastings | What makes Success a success? | About this webinar | |
| New York | 12:00 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 01:00 | |||||
| Warsaw | 18:00 | |||||
| Friday 2nd March 2012 | London | 14:00 | Michael Harris | All About Choices | About this webinar | |
| New York | 09:00 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 22:00 | |||||
| Warsaw | 15:00 | |||||
Bob Hastings has more than 30 years experience in ELT and teacher training in the UK, France and Spain. A firm believer in the communicative approach to language teaching, Bob, who has an MSc in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, has been writing for Pearson ELT since 2001. Married to a French-speaking Spaniard, he lives in a challenging, if occasionally confusing, trilingual environment. In his free time, he enjoys writing fiction, hill-walking and urban cycling.
Michael Harris has taught in Britain Spain, Bolivia and Colombia. From 1982 to 1992 he taught at the British Institute for Young Learners in Madrid, where he was responsible for setting up the Junior Department (11-14 year olds). From 1992 to 1996 he taught English at the University of Alcalá de Henares. He has done extensive teacher training in Spain and other countries in Europe, South America and the Middle East. Michael is the co-author of the following coursebooks: World Class (Pearson ELT, 1994); World Club (Pearson ELT, 2000); Opportunities (Pearson ELT, 2002); New Opportunities (Pearson ELT 2005); Challenges (Pearson ELT 2007); Choices (Pearson ELT 2011). He has also published articles and methodology books on the following topics: syllabus design; self-assessment; continuous assessment and testing; learner development: oral skills; culture and language learning. Michael lives in El Escorial in Spain, is involved in conservation and the allotment movement and writes a blog about local environmental issues in Spanish (http://entornoescorial.blogspot.com).
Anna Sikorzynska has been teaching English for twenty five years. Since 1991 she has been teaching English grammar and EFL methodology at the English Teacher Training College at the University of Warsaw. She has done teacher training in Poland other European countries. She has written a few resource books for teachers on teaching grammar and co-authored the following coursebooks: Opportunities (Pearson ELT, 2002); New Opportunities (Pearson ELT 2005); Challenges (Pearson ELT 2007); New Challenges (Pearson 2012), Choices (Pearson 2012). She lives and works in Warsaw.
About the Webinars
Bob Hastings looks at the features that make Success New Edition one of our best selling courses. Focusing particularly on speaking, the talk explores how the language we present in class can be both accessible and natural, and shows how Success can help your students to speak English more naturally.
Video clip for this webinar:
New Success Pre-Intermediate unit 1
Michael Harris introduces Choices, a five-level course for mid and upper secondary students with a series of innovative features that bring choice into the classroom for both learners and teachers. This topic-driven course has strong educational content, integrated skills and a broad approach to language with a comprehensive focus on morphology, syntax, word grammar, lexical features, text grammar, functions, conversational grammar and phonology.
Choice is built into the course for learners with tasks that give students the chance to choose language to express themselves or to select what to speak or write about. A fold-out booklet at the back of the book provides learners with options for extra language practice and reference and Skills Builders provide support in terms of strategies and model texts. The workbook with MyEnglishLab provides students with online learning and instant feedback.
Teachers are also given many choices to adapt their lessons to their own context with optional video sections containing authentic DVDs and listening texts with two levels of difficulty. Culture Choices are optional lessons at the back of the book with cultural input, literature, songs and projects. Online Skills, in the workbook, develop 21st century skills like information-handling and critical thinking within the context of the Internet. Finally, the Active Teach DVD-ROM provides an interactive whiteboard plus photocopiable activities, teacher development workshops and a Test Master.
Face new challenges with renewed confidence
Anna Sikorzynska will look at specific problems teenagers create for their teachers and the strategies teachers can apply to cope with these problems and improve their students language skills at the same time. With the help of carefully designed materials we can appeal to the notoriously difficult teenage student and assist them in their personal, cognitive and linguistic development.
New Challenges is a topic-driven course aimed specifically at teenagers. It offers teenager interesting input, encourages them to reflect on the world around them and helps develop positive values. It provides carefully staged, achievable tasks, acknowledging the importance of teaching the building blocks of language: collocations, fixed phrases, sentence patterns, etc. It also supports the teacher with a clear workable approach: with New Challengesteachers can make lessons educational, successful and fun!
