It’s always good to report a new event in the publishing world. Of particular interest to those teaching business English was the launch, on April 11th, of Business Spotlight International. Edited by Ian McMaster, Business Spotlight has been well known
Business EnglishUK April 26th
An excellent conference at International House London on Saturday, as Business EnglishUKorganised their trainers’ day. The weather was appalling, which made being at the conference even more attractive! The opening plenary by Evan Frendo dealt with specificity and the complexities of teaching
PSA Symposia in Madrid and Barcelona: two highly successful events
Once again, the British Embassy, Madrid played host to this, the second PSA symposium on digital technologies. This year, we ran a second symposium in Barcelona. Thought-provoking and inspiring, both events were successful. Pete Sharma began the morning, backgrounding the
New In-company blog post on tax
Only three things in life are certain. Death, TAXES and the fact that Barca will not be in the 2012 Champions League final The UK government has recently (and anonymously) investigated the tax returns of a number of wealthy individuals.
Enhancing Presentations with Technology – new Linguarama blog post
Many Business English language learners need to give presentations for work and professional puprposes. This blog post looks at some of the techniques and technologies they can use. For the rest of this post, please visit: Linguarama blog
Forget the iPad and the Whiteboard – here come Google’s goggles…
Just bought a £2000 interactive whiteboard? Or spent £500 on the next generation iPad? Dude, like, what a waste of your hard-earned cash. Whiteboards, as we all know, are so last century. What you should be doing is popping down
40 practical ideas for using technology in language teaching – Chile
It was really great to meet everyone in Chile last week. I thoroughly enjoyed the sessions covering 40 practical ideas – run in Vina del Mar (Thursday) and Santiago (Friday). On the personal front, it was fabulous to have a
British Council Conference: Santiago, Chile
La Formacion de docentes de ingles en Chile Here we go, 168 hours (give or take!) after being there face-to-face, I am delighted to post a lite-version of my PPT in .pdf and the References, as promised! Click below for
In Company blog
The new iPad: is the tablet changing the face of business? It’s here: the new iPad, the first product launch from Apple since the death of Steve Jobs. It’s the higher screen resolution that most tech reviewers are gushing over.
Macmillan Teacher’s Day – Alicante
Thanks to everyone who made the Teacher’s Day in Alicante last Saturday so enjoyable! Here is a ‘lite’ version of my PowerPoint plenary presentation as promised! alicznte-lite Here is a handout with the references: References I thoroughly enjoyed the workshops I attended –