Free online ELT course with Coursera

Kaleigh is starting a free online course on ELT run by Coursera.  She was wondering if anyone else was interested in taking the course so you could talk about it together.
Here's some info about the course from Kaleigh:

https://www.coursera.org/course/shaping1landscape

This is the first of two ELT courses ('Shaping the way we teach English: Part 1') offered by the University of Oregon. It's FREE and you receive a digital certificate from the uni on completion of the course. I've done a couple of Coursera courses before and had a positive experience both times.

To be able to complete the course, you just need to sign up on the website (Coursera) and have access to the internet to watch videos/ complete tasks. 

The course is five weeks long (from the 6th of April- 11th of May) and they suggest 3-6 hours of study a week (assuming that you watch all the videos, take part in group forums etc.), but it really depends on how much or little you want to do.


It would be great to have someone to talk about the course with & motivate me to get the most out of it! If any other teachers are interested my email is: kaleigh.boulter@cambridgeschool.com

Mistake in FCE coursebook

Aneta's spotted a mistake in Gold First:

There´s a mistake on p.166 in the grammar reference page 5.4.  Where it says ´FORM´ for the second conditional

It says:  …….would/could, etc. + past participle in the main clause    but  it should be ……would/could, etc. + infinitive in the main clause.

Thanks

N4 Rooms in the House Prezi

Paul E has created a Prezi for rooms and furniture, which can be used with N4 for unit 6.

Click on the image to access the prezi.

There is also a link saved in the level file. Unit 6 -  My Home.

Thanks Paul!

BUSINESS SKILLS - Worksheets

(From Jo)

There are some more Business Skills worksheets for in-company students who are following a General English book but might like to do some business-type activities to supplement. These are based on INTERNATIONAL EXPRESS. The latest worksheets are:

Elementary: Email 2

Pre-Intermediate: Meetings 1

Intermediate: Making Arrangements

Upper Intermediate: Checking and Clarifying

You can find any required listening tracks, as well as previous Business Skill worksheets, on the server in Granollers:

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\03 In-company Levels File\02 Resources\04 Business English Worksheets\International Express

In-company DVD worksheets and Communicative Activity Resource Packs

(From Jo)

The International Express DVD worksheets are now all on the system (thanks Josh!). They include a DVD clip, a worksheet plus 2 extra practice activities.

The topics are:
ELEMENTARY
Work routines, Commuting, Transport, New Zealand, Selfridges, Santiago-Chile, Organising an event, The Inn at Irving Place, Williamsburg, Ducati.

PRE-INTERMEDIATE
Porsche, Queen's Day (Holland), Rio de Janeiro, BP, Atacama Desert, Zurich, Tiger Mendoza, LookSeeCity, Zipcar, Selexyz.

INTERMEDIATE
Social Media Marketing, The Empire State Building, UAE, Mercedes Benz, Harris Tweed, Lifesaver, Career Change, Lindt, New York Yankees, Marks & Spencer.

UPPER INTERMEDIATE
LA Food Trucks, (Over)Fishing, Happiness, Charity, Great Barrier Reef, PleaseCycle, Mona Lisa Theft, Multisensory Stimulation, High Line, HMV.

All DVD clips and worksheets can be found on the Granollers server:

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\03 In-company Levels File\02 Resources\Video and audio

There are also scanned Resource Packs with lots of communicative activities for the following:

(REWARD)
Starter (General English)
Elementary (General & Business English)
Pre-Intermediate (General & Business English)
Intermediate (General & Business English)
Upper Intermediate (General & Business English)
(CLOCKWISE)
Upper Intermediate (General English)

These can also be found on the Granollers server:
S:\Teachers\03 Levels\03 In-company Levels File\02 Resources\Scanned resource books

In-company S&L material

Dear all,

There are a couple more S&L worksheets based on exam listenings (Advanced - CAE and Upper Intermediate - FCE).

You can find the worksheets here:

SPORT (FCE - UPP INT)

CIRCUS (CAE - ADVANCED)

And the audio files are on the system:

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\03 In-company Levels File\02 Resources\01 Speaking and Listening\2014-15\S&L In-company\S&L Upp Int (FCE) Exam Listenings

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\03 In-company Levels File\02 Resources\01 Speaking and Listening\2014-15\S&L In-company\S&L Advanced (CAE) Exam Listenings

Grammar Powerpoints

Adam has created some more general grammar powerpoints

Name the comparative and superlative game (T4+)

Modals of obligation and prohibition (PIN1+)

Conditionals presentation 1st & 2nd (PIN1+)

These are all saved here: 
S:\Teachers\03 Levels\06 Projector resources\02 Games and Power Point templates\grammar presentations 

Thanks Adam!

N2 Wild Animals Pasapalabra

Graeme has greated a fun pasapalabra for N2

It is saved in the level folder unit 7

Thanks Graeme!

CAE Reporting Verbs Powerpoint

Jaber has added some reporting verb slides to the CAE level folder that can be used to teach reporting verbs.

There is also a seperate table (word document) focusing on form. 
The 1st page is the task that students have to do, the 2nd page is the answer key.  

The table focusing on form could be a useful reference point for sts.

Both of these are saved in the CAE level folder, unit 8.

Thanks Jaber!

CAE The Human Body - First Steps

Andy has found/created a listening for CAE to use at the beginning of unit 9. It is a BBC progamme on the human body and this episode focuses on child development. It fits in nicely with the Use of English at the start of unit 9 and also provides a nice bridge from unit 8 which talks about culture shock. 

Some of the ideas expressed in the video are the subject of debate (e.g. universal grammar) but that should make it all the more interesting.

The questions and answer sheet are in the level folder, unit 9.

Thanks Andy!

Free YL webinars - 18th of March

More info here.

FCE Gold - mistake in reported question p 88

Watch out! Statement D in exercise 3 says I ask him what's it like and it should say: I ask him what it's like... Thanks, Kaleigh, for pointing it out. What an unfortunate mistake seeing as we've just covered reported speech in the previous unit!

Pictures for Starters Vocab N4

Miriam has amended a vocab powerpoint with pictures to practise vocabulary for Starters.

The final slide which was added, can be used to illustrate the word "all" that comes up in the comprehension.  It's a picture of "all" the animals in the zoo, and to contrast, "one", "two" and "some" of the animals in the (same) zoo.

The powerpoint is saved here: S:\Teachers\03 Levels\02 YL Levels File\04 N4 - Footprints 2\08 Extra material and information

Thanks Miriam!