Giving Words Wings

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                                                                                 Giving Words Wings: A course for Teachers

A course for sharing and developing language, particularly vocabulary, and language teaching techniques, based around and focusing on emergent language

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                                                                           Bridge Chambers, Barnstaple, North Devon and in the field

                                     £575 including accommodation and travel from and to Heathrow Airport (to Victoria Station, London, also possible)

                                                                                                        27th July - 3rd August

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This course is for teachers of English who are looking for innovative, imaginative, memorable and interactive ideas and techniques for their classroom. The main focus will be on teaching ages from upper primary to adult, however some sessions/ideas/techniques can be adapted to include primary teaching if needed/appropriate.

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‍Fiona Mauchline

After 28 years in Spain, Fiona now lives in Oxford, working as a materials writer,

teacher trainer, and speaker. Her writing is mainly for secondary, adults,

or Graded Readers, but she also writes teacher development materials and short courses.

She is co-editor of the IATEFL TDSIG e-bulletin and one of the two founders of EVE: Equal

Voices in ELT.

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A course in language teaching ideas and techniques, focusing particularly on sharing, interaction, collaboration, creativity, student-led and learner-centred techniques, and, above all, vocabulary development.

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Course content

Day 1: Vocabulary and the Learning Tree:

Introduction to the course: housekeeping etc.

Introduction to the course: concepts (have, need,  want)/ (brainstorm, research, co-construct, share)

Demo lesson (emergent language and ‘coursebook’  language) Task-setting

Afternoon visit  (with task)

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Day 2: Stories of the place‍

The history of a place

Storifying your home/town

Setting the setting

Sensorial elements for stories

Story share: A Story of Streets

Afternoon visit (with task)

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Day 3: Maps and posters

Demo lesson

Task > micro-teaching

CLIL or content-rich classrooms

Sharing and  impressing – Something new for everyone

Afternoon visit  (with task)

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Day 4: Imagination and flying with words

Poetry

Musical stories

Creative stories

Story share: Are you sitting comfortably?

(Afternoon visit in smaller groups to prepare for  Friday’s share)

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 Day 5: The stuff of stories

All about me, my, I

Task-sharing

Building the week’s story ’book’

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