Yesterday, I was in Ostrava in the Czech Republic, running a session on In Company for teachers teaching in company and In Company. Their students work in the automobile indsutry, and hopefully teachers and students will appreciate the latest business English
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to all our readers, and those newly subscribed to the te4be Newsletter. I am looking forward to meeting the many teachers coming to the presentations in Russia next week. Barney and I will BOTH be at IATEFL. There’s small
Power Point – Blended Learning
During a recent presentation (Londosa), I was asked for my Power Point presentation. I am delighted to upload this onto our website. For convenience, it is divided in three parts. Part one – Blended Learning Part two – New technologies
Blended Learning shortlisted for prize
We are delighted that Blended Learning has been chosen for the 2007 shortlist for The Ben Warren International House Trust Prize awarded for the most outstanding work in the field of language teacher education. The winner will be announced at the IATEFL conference
Blended Learning – up-date number 3 now available to download
The latest up-date for Blended Learning: Using technology in and beyond the language classroom is now available to download from Macmillan’s website.
Flying Dutchman – Melanie Butler interviews Summertown's Louis Garnade
The latest EL Gazette describes the ‘birth’ of Summertown Publishing. Melanie Butler interviews Louis. Here is one intriguing extract (adapted): It was business English that inspired Garnade ..(to) take up yet another new career: book publishing. It is all Pete Sharma’s
Merry Christmas
We are looking forward to the many exciting new developments on te4be in 2008 – watch this space! In the meantime – have a good break this Christmas. Merry Christmas to everyone! from: Barney and Pete
Real skills in a Virtual World
At last month’s BESIG conference in Berlin, Brendan Wightman spoke about the English 365 InfoQuests from CUP. His presentation slide generously alluded to the ‘excellent author’ – Barney Barrett! To access Brendan’s Power Point presentation, please visit the BESIG website. There are now many
IATEFL, Learning Technologies SIG – newsletter editor
I am delighted to be joining the committee of the Learning Technologies SIG and will take over editing the newsletter from January 2008. I am really looking forward to this challenging new position.
English365 InfoQuests Book 3 now available
The final set of InfoQuests to accompany the English365 series are now available to download from CUP’s website. These are based on topics from book three of the series but, like the others, can be used as stand-alone material regardless