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YEARS

ANNIVERSARY

THE 2016 NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

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Welcome Dear special guest, dear participants,

A heartfelt welcome to you all to this anniversary event!

This edition of our annual conferences celebrates our 10 years of activity in ELT and 10 years of fresh ideas and support offered to the teachers of English and their students all over Romania.

To us, this past decade has been a period of continuous and sustained effort to give shape to our initial idea of building an ELT book centre where you could find it all: variety, special offers and expertise. We may have not managed to accomplish the initial dream completely, but we have certainly advanced a lot towards it. Your presence in such an amazing number at our top event of the year is a confirmation of that.

We couldn’t have reached here without the support of our international partners whom I would like to address special thanks for standing by us all along this decade and for trusting us.

This year’s conference programme is very rich in ideas and speakers and we believe there is something new, something useful and something interesting for every single participant. We invite you all to make the most out of the time spent together with us and we assure you we are doing our best to be not only your favourite book supplier, but your trustworthy ELT counsellor and friend!

With best wishes,Daniela VaduvaFischer InternationalManaging Director

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CONTENTS

THE VENUEDAILY INFORMATION

VENUE MAPDIRECTIONS

CONFERENCE AGENDAMEETING ROOMS

ABSTRACTS & BIODATA

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BUCHAREST is a political, administrative, economic and cultural centre, with the earliest proofs of organised social life dating back to the Paleolithic Age. The first written record about this town is from September 20th, 1459. Bucharest, the most important urban centre of Romania, is not only a tourist spot of prime importance but also a gateway and starting point for tourist destinations across the country. Large parks have been arranged to complete the architecture of its natural lakes and many restaurants and pubs have been built to increase the attraction in their immediate proximity. The scenery is completed by the picturesque monasteries of Cernica and Pasarea, and many other 16th -17th century churches hidden between blocks and houses. An opera house, many theatres and even more museums complete the picture. Bucharest also boasts some gigantic communist buildings as well: the House of the Printing Press and the second largest building in the world, The Palace of Parliament.

THE VENUE

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RIN GRAND HOTEL Bucuresti, Romania Sos. Vitan Barzesti 7D T: +4(0) 031/106 11 11W: www.ringrandhotel.ro

In addition to the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest is also home to another building with impressive dimensions: the biggest hotel in Europe – RIN GRAND HOTEL.

Built in 2007, the hotel surprises with its grandeur and modern architecture. Erected close to the city centre, the RIN GRAND HOTEL is a ‘town’ always at your disposal.

Business Centre

All 25 conference rooms benefit from natural light, latest state of the art technology and audio-video support, and high speed internet access.

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Conference Etiquette

As a matter of courtesy to your presenter, during sessions (unless it is necessary for a task in the session), please refrain from using your laptop, using your mobile phone or having side conversations. Please avoid entering or leaving a room while the speaker is talking. Please also keep your mobile phone turned off during any session. Thank you.

Security

Please make sure that your meeting room door is locked if you are the last person to leave and that your laptops are never left unattended at any time.

Please wear the Fischer lanyard and badge so that it could be easily seen at any time by the organisers and the hotel staff in order to avoid embarrassing misunderstandings. It grants you access to all the conference rooms, lunch and other conference areas.

Meals• Refreshments (coffee break/welcome coffee) - morning and afternoon refreshments will be served at

the 13th floor, outside of the conference rooms;• Saturday’s lunch is included in the conference package. Please make sure you are back from lunch in

due time for the following presentations. You will be required to wear your lanyard and name tag all during lunch and other refreshment breaks.

DAILY INFORMATION

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VENUE MAP

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FROM GARA DE NORD

Take the underground (metro) to Piata Victoriei (one stop).Change at Piata Victoriei for the Berceni line towards Aparatorii Patriei and get off at the 8th stop. You must be at Aparatorii Patriei. Here you get to Ion Iriceanu Street and take the bus no 202 towards Soseaua Vitan-Barzesti. Get off at the 3rd stop (reference point - Praktiker). You are there.

FROM THE AIRPORT

The cheapest and most convenient way is to take bus 783 straight to Piata Victoriei.The bus stop is next to the underground station.Take the underground Berceni line towards Aparatorii Patriei and get off at the 8th stop. You must be at Aparatorii Patriei. Here you get to Ion Iriceanu Street and take the bus no 202 towards Soseaua Vitan-Barzesti. Get off at the 3rd stop (reference point - Praktiker). You are there.

You could also take the airport taxi.

FROM ANY “AUTOGARA” SITUATED BY GARA DE NORD

Walk to Gara de Nord and take the underground to Piata Victoriei (one stop).Change at Piata Victoriei and take the underground Berceni line towards Aparatorii Patriei and get off at the 8th stop. You must be at Aparatorii Patriei. Here you get to Ion Iriceanu Street and take the bus no 202 towards Soseaua Vitan-Barzesti. Get off at the 3rd stop (reference point - Praktiker). You are there.

DIRECTIONS

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DIRECTIONS

FROM GARA DE EST (GARA OBOR/ AUTOGARA OBOR/ AUTOGARA RITMULUI)

Walk to the Piata Iancului underground station.Take the underground to Piata Victoriei (3 stops).Change at Piata Victoriei and take the underground Berceni line towards Aparatorii Patriei and get off at the 8th stop.You must be at Aparatorii Patriei. Here you get to Ion Iriceanu Street and take the bus no 202 towards Soseaua Vitan-Barzesti. Get off at the 3rd stop (reference point - Praktiker). You are there. FROM ANY RAILWAY STATION AND BUS STATION YOU CAN TAKE A TAXI:

Mondial: 021/9423Cris Taxi: 021/9466Meridian: 021/9444

INFO GARA: www.cfr.ro INFO AUTOGARA: www.autogari.ro INFO HOTEL: www.ringrandhotel.ro INFO EMERGENCIES: Ancuta Damian – 0755/048.886;

Mihaela Boian – 0755/048.887.

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CONFERENCE AGENDA

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PARIS ROOM STRASBOURG ROOM MOSCOW ROOM LUXEMBURG ROOM

10.00 - 11.00 REGISTRATION WELCOME COFFEE

11.00 - 11.30 WELCOME WORD

ORGANISERS & PUBLISHERS: British Council, Cambridge University Press, Education First, National Geographic Learning, Oxford University Press, Pilgrims Teacher Training

11.30 - 12.20 PLENARY GARY ANDERSON, Let’s Think About Teaching Today’s Teenagers

12.30 - 13.20 PLENARY ALEX WARREN, Heads or Tails – To Flip or Not to Flip?

13.20 - 13.40 COFFEE BREAK - BLUE

13.40 - 14.30 WORKSHOPS DAVID EVANS, Top TED Ideas for Teachers

HANNA KRYSZEWSKA, Teaching vocabulary the right way

ELZA GHEORGHIU, Speaking activities for B2

RABAH BENGHERABI, Implementing Blended Learning

14.40 - 15.30 WORKSHOPS DAVID EVANS, Top TED Ideas for Teachers

HANNA KRYSZEWSKA, Teaching vocabulary the right way

ELZA GHEORGHIU, Speaking activities for B2

RABAH BENGHERABI, Implementing Blended Learning

15.30 - 16.00 SNACK BREAK - RED

16.00 - 16.50 PLENARY JON HIRD, Do you speak 2016? Aspects of Contemporary English

17.00 - 17.50 WORKSHOPS

ALEX WARREN, ‘Big is Beautiful’ – The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Large Classes

ANA MARIA OBEZARU & JULIETA PETRE, Jolly Grammar is Fun

LOUISA DUNNE, IELTS Writing Task1 – How to help with maps and processes

ANDREI HENEGAR, An international learning experience for your students

18.00 - 18.50 WORKSHOPS

ALEX WARREN, ‘Big is Beautiful’ – The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Large Classes

ANA MARIA OBEZARU & JULIETA PETRE, Jolly Grammar is Fun

LOUISA DUNNE, IELTS Writing Task1 – How to help with maps and processes

ANDREI HENEGAR, An international learning experience for your students

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CONFERENCE AGENDA

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8.00 - 8.50 PLENARY ALEXANDRA BUTNARU, Just keep testing!

9.00 - 9.50 PLENARY MARILENA ANGELA CHIRCULETE, Engaging Students through Video

10.00 - 10.50 PLENARY RABAH BENGHERABI, Task Based Learning versus Project Based Learning

10.50 - 11.10 COFFEE BREAK - GREEN

11.10 - 12.00 PLENARY HANNA KRYSZEWSKA, 21st Century Skills in ELT

12.10 - 13.00 WORKSHOPSJON HIRD, Extended Speaking in the Classroom

GARY ANDERSON, Stories and Fun for Young Learners

SARAH ELLIS, Integrating technology in the classroom

VALERIA ANGHEL, How to Teach Public Speaking

13.10 - 14.00 WORKSHOPSJON HIRD, Extended Speaking in the Classroom

GARY ANDERSON, Stories and Fun for Young Learners

SARAH ELLIS, Integrating technology in the classroom

VALERIA ANGHEL, How to Teach Public Speaking

14.00 - 15.00 LUNCH

15.00 - 15.10 PLENARY CLAUDIU DAMIAN, International Summer Schools

15.20 - 16.10 PLENARY LOUISA DUNNE, How does L1 affect IELTS scores? What’s online to help?

16.20 - 17.10 PLENARY DAVID EVANS, Beyond the carrot & the stick. Motivating learners

17.10 RAFFLE/FAREWELL

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LOCATION

All conference rooms are located on the 13th floor.

Registration: 13th floor

MEETING ROOMS

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ABSTRACTS & BIODATA

ALEX WARREN, National Geographic Learning

Who: Having studied history at university and worked as a journalist for several years, Alex decided it was time to travel the world; and it was this that sparked his love affair with ELT. With a desire to impart his English language knowledge, on returning to the UK he took his first foray into the world of teaching English, completing his CELTA qualification in sunny Bournemouth. Such was his love of teaching and desire to develop, he soon took on the challenge of the DELTA while juggling various teaching commitments. For the last six years Alex has been working as an Academic Director and teacher trainer at a successful private language school. Taking great pride in developing teachers he guided them and the school to consistently excellent British Council scores, with notable strengths in the CPD and teacher training programme that he implemented and ran. The move into teacher training on a permanent basis was only a matter of time and Alex is now enjoying developing teachers on an international scale.

What: Heads or Tails – To Flip or Not to Flip?“To flip or not to flip?”, that is indeed the question. As teaching innovations go, the concept of the flipped classroom has continued to gather momentum in all walks of education since its almost accidental inception in middle America in 2007. But what exactly is the flipped classroom, how do we do it and why should we sit up and take notice? More to the point, is it even relevant to the English language classroom? In this talk Alex Warren explores the development of the flipped classroom, the opportunities it presents and examines whether or not it has a place in the world of ELT. The talk will make reference to NGL’s popular course, Life.

What: ‘Big is Beautiful’ – The Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching Large ClassesTeaching large classes is something which is experienced around the world and is something which is becoming more prevalent with increasing student populations. Not only can this cause class management issues for teachers, but more importantly it can create developmental problems for students with the acquisition and production of language. This session aims to look at some of the issues surrounding teaching large classes, but also looks at the opportunities they present and practical ideas to help, both for the teacher and for the student.The talk will make reference to NGL’s leading secondary-level course, Close-Up.

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ALEXANDRA BUTNARU, Twinkle Star

Who: Alexandra is an experienced EFL teacher and teacher trainer from Iași, Romania. After CELTA and an MA in Applied Linguistics, thousands of classes at Twinkle Star Language School, hundreds of successful Cambridge exam candidates, reasearching a new ‘monomythical’ approach to teaching, she has decided to start sharing her ideas and discoveries with fellow professionals. Keen on technology, films, comics, music, and travelling, Alexandra believes that teaching is a never-ending learning story.

What: Just keep testing! ‘Tests are fun, no reason for worries’, said no student or TED speaker ever. And that happens because tests are often associated with teachers’ needs, more or less fair assessment, low scores, ranks, error correction, or teacher-parent meetings. However, there are several teacher-tested easy-to-apply ways of transforming them into real learning and motivation enhancers.

ANA MARIA OBEZARU, Cooperative Learning Academy of Snagov

Who: Ana-Maria Obezaru is an English and French Language teacher with a lot of experience in primary and secondary schools as well as international IB World schools. She holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures and she is a Masterand in Innovative Teaching Methodology of University of Bucharest. Ana-Maria teaches English as a foreign language to children of all ages and she is keen on teaching students based on a transdisciplinary approach, helping students understand what is authentic and relevant to the real world. At the moment she is an International Baccalaureate Coordinator in a private school based in Bucharest and collaborates with CLA Snagov as a teacher trainer.

What: Jolly Grammar is FunTraditionally, grammar was seen as a formal academic subject, far too difficult for young children to learn. However, with the Jolly Grammar programme, young children can be introduced to grammatical concepts in a fun and accessible way.

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By using Jolly Grammar, students get engaged because it is a multisensory method and it provides efficient grammar, spelling and punctuation. Jolly Grammar is the next stage after the first year with Jolly Phonics and it consolidates the children’s knowledge from Jolly Phonics and helps them develop an understanding of how grammar works.Our workshop will give you an overall picture of the method and you will understand why Jolly Learning is a complex method appropriate for primary schools. Join us!

DAVID EVANS, National Geographic Learning

Who: David Evans is a writer, broadcaster and presenter. He is the author of nineteen English language teaching books and is a past winner of the Duke of Edinburgh’s English Language Award. As a teacher, lecturer and teacher trainer, he has worked in more than forty countries. He also spent ten years as a radio producer for the BBC World Service and he is currently writing and producing a long-running ELT soap opera for the British Council for broadcast on local radio stations around the world.

What: BEYOND THE CARROT & THE STICK. MOTIVATING LEARNERSFor a long time, much thinking about motivation in the classroom and the workplace has been dominated by the carrot and the stick - pass and fail grades, promotions and demotions, incentives and penalties. But, intuitively, many of us suspect that there are other – and better – ways to motivate both ourselves and our students.So, in this talk, David Evans looks at how else we can make learning meaningful. He’ll talk about ways of developing learner autonomy, harnessing our inner drive and learning to embrace failure instead of fearing it.

What: Top TED Ideas for TeachersTED Talks offer ideas worth sharing on a dazzling range of subjects from art to zoology but which of these ideas are most relevant to students and teachers? In this workshop, David Evans chooses some of TED’s most interesting and thought-provoking ideas and discusses how they can breathe new life into the classroom. The talk will include video clips from a number of TED Talks and will also make reference to the new National Geographic Learning course, Keynote.

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ELZA GHEORGHIU, British Council

Who: Elza Gheorghiu is a trainer and a teacher; she also coordinates international educational projects. Her field of interest covers work with innovative educational web 2.0 methodologies in training/teaching and non-formal education. Target group for her teaching/training: young learners and adults. A special area of intervention is training special needs children and their teachers for foreign language communication.

What: Speaking activities for B2The workshop focuses on the format and interaction patterns of the FCE Speaking paper and the skills that learners need in order to be successful in this exam. Participants will be involved in classroom activities that they can use with their students.

GARY ANDERSON, Cambridge University Press

Who: Originally from Kansas, Gary Anderson was Pedagogical Director of the language program of the former American Center in Paris where he taught and co-ordinated classes for all ages of learners. He was President-elect of TESOL France when he joined Cambridge University Press as International Teacher Trainer. He has given talks in over 60 countries on five continents, including several times in Romania and regularly at Fischer International conferences. He still lives in Paris without wife or cat, but last summer, his son got married, his daughter moved into her own flat and he started playing the clarinet again.

What: Let’s Think About Teaching Today’s Teenagers We’ll be looking at how the new secondary course THiNK helps meet the challenge of teaching today’s teenagers by going beyond building strong language skills to developing the whole learner. Train to Think, Think Values and Think Self-esteem activities develop important critical thinking skills and offer opportunities for reflection on opinions and values. Digital materials appeal to ‘screenagers’ and Think (Cambridge) Exams focuses on ensuring both academic and lifelong success.

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What: Stories and Fun for Young LearnersStories and fun activities are of course an excellent and engaging way for children to both enjoy and learn. So come on along for some Storyfun and Fun for Starters, Movers and Flyers interactive activities, including classroom, online and digital, for preparing to take Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Tests – or just for having fun while learning a new language.

HANNA KRYSZEWSKA, Pilgrims Teacher Training

Who: Hanna Kryszewska is a teacher, teacher trainer, trainer of trainers. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. She is co-author of resource books: Learner Based Teaching, OUP, Towards Teaching, Heinemann, The Standby Book, CUP, Language Activities for Teenagers, CUP, The Company Words Keep, DELTA Publishing, and a course book series for secondary schools: ForMat, Macmillan. She is also co-author of a video based teacher training course: Observing English Lessons. She is a Pilgrims trainer and editor of HLT Magazine.

What: 21st Century Skills in ELT21st century skills is a term we have been hearing recently in various contexts. It refers to teaching for the future in new changing learning environments, developing thinking tools, being creative and innovative together, and preparing for future careers. This talk explores how ELT can embrace this trend by helping learners become critical thinkers, effective communicators and good collaborators.

What: Teaching vocabulary the right wayTeaching vocabulary often means teaching single words. Recent research shows that this is not necessarily the most effective way. Single words function in ‘chunks’ which need to be taught from the very beginning to ensure successful use of lexis. This workshop presents some background information referring to the Lexical Approach and practical ideas implementing this approach.

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JON HIRD, Oxford University Press

Who: I am a teacher, trainer and author based in Oxford, UK, where I divide my time between teaching English at the University of Oxford and writing ELT materials. I also give teacher-training talks and workshops both in the UK and overseas. I have a range of experience and interests, but with a particular interest in Grammar, English for Academic Purposes and in dyslexia and learning English. I have written and contributed to a number of ELT publications and my most recent include Oxford EAP B1 (2015), Grammar and Vocabulary for the Real World (2015), Oxford Learner’s Pocket Verbs and Tenses (2013) and The Complete English Grammar (2010) I have also recently co-written the Keynote Proficient Workbook (2016) and contributed grammar material to the Navigate and Life (2nd edition) course book series. In my free time, I play the drums.

What: Do you speak 2016? Aspects of Contemporary EnglishThe English Language is changing and evolving at an unprecedented rate. Language use that was considered incorrect yesterday is perhaps tolerated today and will very possibly the norm tomorrow. This informative session looks at examples of grammar, vocabulary, teen-speak and online-speak pertinent to language learners that are currently in this state of flux.

What: Extended Speaking in the Classroom This practical and interactive session looks at a tried-and-tested extended speaking activity that can add a spoken element to any lesson or topic and at any level of proficiency. We will also look at how a simple pre-task planning stage can result in increased fluency, complexity and in particular grammatical accuracy. Along the way, we will listen to and briefly assess a recording of a teenage learner of English undertaking such a task. You will leave the session with some real take-away classroom ideas that you can immediately incorporate into your teaching.

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JULIETA PETRE, Cooperative Learning Academy of Snagov

Who: Julieta Petre is an authorised Jolly Phonics & Grammar Professional Trainer and a teacher trainer, member of the Cooperative Learning Group of Research-Study-Training of the Centre for Intercultural Studies - University of Verona. She is also a qualified EFL teacher with a great experience in Primary and Secondary schools as well as international schools. At the moment she works as a School Director for CLAS International School based in Snagov, Ilfov and runs CLA Snagov Training Centre as well.

Julieta Petre holds a BA in Philology from University of Bucharest, the international TKT-CLIL certificate from University of Cambridge, a PGDip in Cooperative Learning Methodology, a Master in Intercultural Education from University of Foreigners ‘Dante Alighieri’, Italy as well as a Diploma in Business Administration from Golders Green College, England. She is also the author of the book Cooperative Learning in CLIL Contexts published by Quiedit. Julieta enjoys conducting Jolly Phonics/Grammar workshops as well as Cooperative Learning & CLIL training sessions on request.

What: Jolly Grammar is FunTraditionally, grammar was seen as a formal academic subject, far too difficult for young children to learn. However, with the Jolly Grammar programme, young children can be introduced to grammatical concepts in a fun and accessible way.By using Jolly Grammar, students get engaged because it is a multisensory method and it provides efficient grammar, spelling and punctuation. Jolly Grammar is the next stage after the first year with Jolly Phonics and it consolidates the children’s knowledge from Jolly Phonics and helps them develop an understanding of how grammar works.Our workshop will give you an overall picture of the method and you will understand why Jolly Learning is a complex method appropriate for primary schools. Join us!

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LOUISA DUNNE, British Council

Who: Louisa Dunne currently works as an Examinations Academic Support Manager for the British Council in France, providing academic support and advice to English teachers in French Higher Education Institutions and to teachers of Secondary students and adults preparing their students for a variety of English language tests. Louisa has many years’ experience of teaching English language learners of all ages and working with teachers in a wide range of different educational contexts. She has worked for the British Council in many different counties around the world including Egypt, Nepal, Japan and Portugal before moving to France in 2008.

What: How does L1 affect IELTS scores? What’s online to help?We will consider how geographical location, L1 and other factors may affect these scores. Drawing on participants’ own experience of IELTS preparation, with students of various nationalities we will define the support needed, and map this to online IELTS resources.

What: IELTS Writing Task1 – How to help with maps and processesThis practical workshop will look at ways we can help our students with the less-common IELTS task 1 questions, namely, maps, process diagrams and tables. We will consider the different types of process diagrams, map tasks and data in the form of a table, and work through strategies and approaches for tackling these.

MARILENA ANGELA CHIRCULETE, Shakespeare School

Who: Marilena Angela Chirculete is a CELTA qualified, highly passionate teacher of English and has gained, over the years, experience with different age groups, ranging from young learners to teenagers and adults. She is currently an ESL teacher, teacher trainer and centre manager for Shakespeare School.

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She is also involved in English courses design, writing and publishing English learning children’s books (“Ziggy and Zaggy: Adventures in Englishland” and “Ziggy and Zaggy in Storyland”), writing online articles, as well as designing and hosting workshops and webinars on areas of ELT, such as developing speaking skills, giving feedback, multiple intelligences and learner styles. Marilena’s main interests in the field of ELT consist of researching teaching strategies with a focus on exam preparation classes and methods of engaging young learners by nurturing the diversity of learner styles and multiple intelligences.

What: Engaging students through VideoAs technology becomes ever more popular among children and young adults alike, as teachers we feel the pressure, as well as the necessity to find a way to compete with this “distraction” from learning. What if we did not think of it as an obstacle, but rather as an opportunity? This plenary is focused on presenting stimulating and learner oriented means of including videos in the process of learning English, one of the reasons being the fact that many classrooms nowadays are video ready or can easily become so. As implementing video input is no longer a difficult task to achieve in class, perhaps the good old clip, footage or movie scene could be reconsidered and revived in a way that engages the students more and works along the lines of acknowledging the fact that they truly are digital natives and that the use of technology for educational purposes should be as natural to teachers as it is to their students.

RABAH BENGHERABI, Education First

Who: As a trained interpreter of English, Arabic and French, Rabah Bengherabi has first-hand experience of the demands and benefits of multilingualism. Not content with interpreting to lend an international voice to others, Rabah turned to language teaching in 2006 and has since worked in a variety of environments with students and teachers of all backgrounds and nationalities. Currently the Director of Studies of EF’s busy Brighton International Language School, his empathy with learners and desire for quality in teaching has helped Rabah progress rapidly from the ranks of ESL teacher to academic management of more than twenty staff. He particularly enjoys teaching exam classes, conducting teacher training and, when outside work, sea swimming and bread baking.

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What: Task-Based Learning versus Project Based LearningComparing these two semi-formal frameworks to highlights their differences and potential to make students more actively involved in directing their own learning and taking learning beyond the classroom. Rabah will cover practical techniques for the inclusion of projects and tasks in your planned teaching with examples and ready to go practical task and project ideas which teachers can implement in their own classrooms. What: Implementing Blended LearningEffective blended learning doesn’t stop with using the technology provided by the school but also students’ own computers, tablets and smartphones inside and outside the classroom. The session for school managers and teachers draws on lessons learned from EF’s ten years of research and use of classroom technology to share ‘what works’. We will focus not just on the technology itself but share frameworks and task types that promote acquisition rich interaction.

SARAH ELLIS, Cambridge English Language Assessment

Who: Sarah Ellis is Head of Assessment Services, Southern Europe for Cambridge English Language Assessment. She has an extensive background in teaching and teacher training in both Italy and the UK and has taught English to students of all ages and levels. She has trained teachers on CELTA and DELTA courses and has also worked with teachers in the Italian State School system. Sarah has been involved with Cambridge English examinations for over 15 years as oral examiner, presenter and as Centre Examinations Manager and prior to taking up her current position, was responsible for the Cambridge English Language Assessment teacher support programme for Italy for which provides information, materials and support for teachers at seminars, conferences and events throughout Italy.

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What: Integrating technology in the classroom This session would introduce teachers to a range of practical ideas for integrating technology into a cycle of learning in the classroom and explore a number of tools and approaches for integrating digital learning. It would also introduce teachers to the Cambridge EnglishDigital Framework for Teachers.

VALERIA ANGHEL, Shakespeare School

Who: Valeria Anghel is a teacher of English at Shakespeare School. She is CELTA certified and prepares groups of young learners and teenagers for Cambridge exams. Valeria coaches Shakespeare School students who participate in public speaking competitions in English. As course designer and project coordinator, she develops customized teaching materials for the school. Valeria has hosted several teacher training in-house sessions and workshops, in addition to being a contributor to the children’s book “Ziggy and Zaggy: Adventures in Englishland”.

What: How to teach Public SpeakingWe’re not afraid of public speaking, and neither should your students! In recent years, we have become increasingly aware of the importance of learning how to be a proficient speaker, as well as the necessity to integrate public speaking skills into the education of the future generations.We will take a look at some handy tips for writing a good speech and some simple delivery techniques, guaranteed to make the audience more engaged, but also discuss activities and routines that we can implement in our classrooms to help students not only overcome the fear of speaking in public, but also get them engaged and talking!

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Cambridge University Press is the world’s oldest continually operating book publisher, having been granted a Royal Letters Patent by Henry VIII in 1534. Cambridge is both an academic and educational publishing house, its publishing output including major ELT courses; tertiary textbooks and monographs; scientific and medical reference; professional lists in law, management and engineering; educational course books; and e-learning materials for schools via the Cambridge-Hitachi joint venture.

Global ELT is an ELT publishing company that specialises in publishing materials for the international ELT exams. A wide range of Practice Tests and Exam Preparation books is available for a variety of international language exams. Besides exam materials, they also publish a wide variety of ELT books such as grammar books, skills books, ELT dictionaries, vocabulary books, idioms and phrasal verbs, General English course books and Graded ELT Readers.

National Geographic Learning is the new name of the former Heinle Cengage Learning, a great international publisher who expanded its already large range of titles through the acquisition of the famous National Geographic Schools Publishing, thus incorporating National Geographic’s long tradition of quality, trust and inspiration. The new array of resources springing from this amazing blend are not only educational, but highly informative, motivating, and inspiring, facilitating the teacher’s job and catching the learners under their spell.

Collins - With almost 200 years of dictionary publishing experience, Collins is one of the world’s most authoritative language publishers. Supported by COBUILD, the world’s largest database of authentic English, the titles published by Collins focus on the language the students really need for exams, business and day-to-day English. They range from skills books and reference books to books for exams, for conducting business in English with confidence. Collins books are passport to success.

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, being the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford University Press (OUP) publishes books, journals and online services in a wide range of academic and professional disciplines, as well as reference works, textbooks, and books for the general reader. In addition to publishing over 4,600 new books each year, Oxford University Press is a major provider of online information to libraries, institutions, and individuals worldwide.

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