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Teacher Update Courses -How
to book your course-
These courses are intended for Primary and Secondary
teachers who already teach, or intend to start teaching English.
Our trainers have over twenty years' experience of planning, facilitating
and leading in-service training courses for teacher groups from Argentina,
Austria Belgium, Brazil, The Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany,
Greece, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and
Switzerland.
They have also worked with independent and state institutions, notably
the British Council, the German state in-service training institutes
in Hessen, Hamburg and Thüringen and Bath and North-East Somerset
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Dates
Course code: ST1/03 20 / 07 03 - 01 / 08 / 03 for Secondary
level teachers
Course code: PT1/03 03 -15 / 08/ 03 for Primary level teachers
Course duration 2 weeks / 21 sixty-minute
sessions per week including one full day excursion and one ½ day excursion.
Maximum number of participants 10 , Minimum number of participants
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Course programme
The objective of these courses is to help teachers of English update
their first-hand knowledge of British life and culture and develop
their communication skills so that they can use English more confidently
and fluently. In addition to personal language and communication training,
the course will focus on the following areas of professional interest
for teachers of Primary English: classroom management language, drama,
classroom techniques, storytelling, using music in the classroom,
language games, published materials, teacher-produced materials. |
Teacher Update Course
programme- Sample timetable
| Week 1 |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 9.30 - 11.00 |
-Introductions
-Hopes & Fears
-Diaries |
-The Bladud Legend
-Everyday expressions |
-Prepare Bath
tasks
-Bath research tasks + idiom survey |
-Idioms &
collocations 1
-Pronunciation 1 |
-Participant
diary Session 1
-Mid-course evaluation |
| 11.30 - 13.00 |
-Profiling
-Information-
gathering task |
-Music session
1
-Methodology & basic musical concepts |
-Bath research
project + idiom survey
-Project presentations |
-Tense review
-Classroom management in English |
-Roman Britain
- Preparation for w/e Excursion to Chepstow, Tintern, Cardiff |
| 14.00 - 15.30 |
Minibus tour
of Bath |
-Using simple
texts
-Cross-cultural project |
-Common language
errors |
-Micro-teaching
task 1
-Internet resources |
-Visit to Roman
Baths |
| Week 2 |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 9.30 - 11.00 |
-w/e feedback
-Landscape here & there comparing cultures |
-Idioms &
collocations
-Standard vs non-standard English |
-Exploitation
of model houses
-Primary Education in England & Wales |
-Games
-Pronunciation 2 |
-Diary session
2
-Pronunciation 3 -Course Evaluation |
| 11.30 - 13.00 |
-Grammar workshop
I |
-Colour poems
-Creating a context: model houses |
-Drama in the
classroom |
-Cultural project
presentations |
-Bibliography
-Farewells |
| 14.00 - 15.30 |
-Storytelling:
Different techniques demonstrated with 4 stories |
-Primary methodology
-video discussion |
-Excursion to
Lacock Abey and Castle Combe |
-"The Golden
Ages of Bath" lecture & walking tour of Bath
-Farewell evening |
FREE |
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