Exciting News! New course and more...
I wonder whether you're a morning person or a night owl? I'm definitely better in the mornings and I'm usually up very early because I find that time of day the most productive (stems from days of having young children around and that being the only time I really had to myself!). This week there's been a particularly large number of pre-dawn mornings slaving over a hot computer screen .. but more about that in a minute.... (even though I'm VERY excited!)
Something old
I'm keeping this section short and sweet this week because otherwise this newsletter will take you about an hour to read!! So let me drop into your lap a lovely activity to use on Monday. Low prep, high output and your learners at anything above pre-int are going to love it. It's called Who are you?
Something new
OK- I can keep it in no longer! As I've been telling you my new course Teaching Pronunciation Made Easy is ready and I'm launching it TODAY! How exciting is T?!
I have put together everything I know about pronunciation (that's quite a bit over 30 odd years of teaching English). It includes some background philosophy about pronunciation (what holds learners back and the whole interesting can of worms about pronunciation and identity), some theory (from the basics of the phonemic chart to more sophisticated aspects of pron) and all of my favourite, tried and tested ideas for incorporating pronunciation into your everyday class practice. Lots of great take-it-to-the-class ideas!
It's designed to take you right from the beginning and give you a really thorough grounding so that you feel not only confident and happy about teaching pronunciation but really enthusiastic and positive about it. Your learners will appreciate this too!
If you've looked through the internet and wished that you could just find a friendly, engaging and knowledgeable someone who would sit down with you and tell you all about teaching pronunciation, without assuming too much, without being patronising, making the whole area accessible, interesting and practical, this is the course for you.
There's also a substantial discount on it for the first TWO WEEKS only! Check it out here.
It's a comprehensive programme- 30 video tutorials, quizzes to check you're on track, transcripts and downloadable pdfs. As with all of my courses, you've got lifetime access to the materials and if you don't like it, just let me know within a week, and I'll give you your money back. No questions.
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Something borrowed
Right- let me stop banging on about pronunciation and see what I've got for you from my internet trawling this week. It actually seems to be a week of webinars. I don't usually like to put up more than one a week for you- I know it's easy to sign up and never go- but there's such a plethora of good content around at the moment that I'm suggesting THREE.
The first one (on Tuesday 14th) is for the teacher educators amongst you and looks interesting. It sees Alan Maley (if you don't know who he is, I'd definitely go!) talking about the more humanistic aspects of teacher education. You can register for that here.
If that doesn't suit you or tickle your fancy, or you want something more directly practical for the classroom, how about this one on Friday 17th? It's FREE, it's got some great speakers, and it's aimed squarely at those of you in the classroom looking for ideas beyond the coursebook.
If neither of those light your candle, I've got one more for you- it's not free but it's cheap (￡10) and it looks great. It's a three day online event from Pavilion Learn entitled Is the Future Perfect. It's on the 21-23rd May and has an amazing line-up including Chris Roland (fab for YLs), Jill Hadfield and Varinder Unlu who is giving the talk I saw at IATEFL that was the most moving, thought provoking one of the conference for me.
OK, that's me for the week- I'm off to collapse in an exhausted heap! See you next week and don't forget to check out the new course!
Have a good one,
Best