Future webinars
Thursday, 29th February:
In this webinar, we explore practical strategies for nurturing autonomy in personalised (1-to-1) ESL settings. With more opportunity to develop learner autonomy, through greater personal knowledge and space to focus on individual goals, 1-to-1 English language classrooms also present a unique challenge to teachers to support learner autonomy.
Past webinars
February 2024: Fostering learner autonomy in 1-to-1 ELT classrooms
Thursday, 29th February, 2pm UK time Click here to check your time zone. In this webinar, we explore practical strategies for nurturing autonomy in personalised (1-to-1) ESL settings. With …
November 2023: Advancing intermediate learners in ELT: helping intermediate learners to feel stretched and motivated
This webinar guides teachers through tasks which help learners to effectively revise and extend ‘learnt’ language, so that learners at this level (and beyond) feel challenged, engaged and motivated. The …
October 2023: Navigating Challenges in Online English Teaching: Exam Preparation Courses and Effective Solutions
In this webinar, we will focus on the complexities of online English teaching, particularly in the context of exam preparation. We identify the unique challenges that teachers and learners face …
September 2023: Teaching English to low-level learners using authentic resources
This webinar explores how you can teach elementary and pre-intermediate students using graded, authentic resources. We’ll explore ways to use authentic materials effectively with low level learners and how to …
Webinars Series
Webinars for Teachers Our teaching English with graded, authentic, global resources webinar series provides teachers with high-quality advice from ELT experts. The webinar series shares engaging ideas, sound theory, and …
March 2023: Reading aloud – a useful or useless ELT activity for learners?
The sound of learners’ voices reading aloud echoes around language classrooms all over the world. Though an age-old technique, it undoubtedly has benefits even today. Some teachers, however, integrate it …
February 2023: Students as journalists in English language classrooms
News stories provide a ready made context for students to produce language in order to express and share their own life experiences and creativity. Beyond guiding and supporting learners to …
January 2023: Using inclusive, global materials in ELT
This webinar explores ways all learners can develop using diverse, inclusive, topical lesson content based around real-world news videos. They provide opportunities for meaningful, context-based learning in English language classrooms …
October 2022: Handling ELT PARSNIPS using teacher and producer expertise
PARSNIPS are always a concern for English language teachers. It’s the term for topics which are routinely excluded from learning materials: politics, alcohol, religion, sex, narcotics, isms, pork and sexual …
June webinar: Integrating phonology into your English language classes
Integrating phonology into your English language classes This webinar covers a number of ways to work with pronunciation in the ELT classroom and feel more confident in this teaching role …
Feb 2022: Classroom research, personalised CPD and ELT
This webinar explores several easy ways to use classroom research to improve our own teaching, intuitions, and understanding of our learners. We’ll focus on simple ways to guide our classroom …
March 2022: Effective blended learning essentials for ELT
The use of digital technology has brought fundamental changes to teaching and learning. In this context, the ‘flipped classroom’ and ‘blended learning’ are becoming more familiar terms. Learners’ active involvement …
January Webinar
This webinar will help teachers to support learners’ speaking development using retelling. This valuable and flexible task type provides many opportunities for learners to enhance their oral fluency. Retelling based …
November 2021 Cultural festivals, intercultural communication and ELT
This webinar will explore how we can help learners’ develop as effective, intercultural language users. We will see how sensitive, supportive, person-centred resources and lesson activities about cultural and religious …
COP26 Webinar
COP26 Special Edition – Climate, sustainability and ELT The COP26 UN Climate Change Conference provides an excellent opportunity to bring sustainability and climate issues into learners’ ideas, intake and production …
Past Webinars Series
Webinars for Teachers Webinar series 1: Using video in ELT Our Using video in ELT webinar series provides teachers with high quality advice from ELT EdTech experts. The webinar series …