Classroom Ideas that Work!
October 8th, 20112:00pm to 6:00pm
Venue: Telecom ParisTech
Room: F503
Presented by Dennis Davy.
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In this workshop, Dennis will share a dozen of his favourite and most effective language teaching activities and techniques:
- Using authentic videos to encourage creative story-telling
- Ideas for exploiting newspapers in class
- How to encourage students to listen to each other's oral presentations
- Creative ways of giving feedback on students' oral and written work
- Integrating music and song and art into language lessons
- Motivating students to read authentic short stories
- Stimulating newspaper articles with effective reading and vocabulary activities
- Getting on with phrasal verbs
- Integrating spelling rules with pronunciation teaching
- Using authentic crosswords and creating your own
- Practising verbs and nouns of upward and downward movement
Participants will leave the session with a pack of ready-to-use, tried and tested exercises and techniques that they can use and adapt in their own classes.
Dennis Davy is Lecturer in English at EDHEC Business School in Lille and at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris; he is also a teacher trainer on Cambridge ESOL's DELTA blended learning programme in Strasbourg. He studied French and German at Oxford University, ELT at Lancaster and English and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge. Over a career of more than 30 years in TEFL, he has taught English and trained teachers in Germany, Japan, Algeria, Qatar, Oman and France. His research interests include lexicology, language testing, the teaching of spelling, the role of art, music and song in language learning, the different cultures of the English-speaking world, British media, language teacher education and English for business and law. Dennis is a passionate language learner and dedicated world traveller.