It’s IATEFL time again - the biggest ELT conference in Europe which is taking place in Harrogate this year.
On Friday (9th April 2010) I will be involved in the Pearson Longman signature event which is titled: Responding to the needs of Generation Y (more information here). The other panelists are Jill Hadfield, Steve Oakes and […]

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Great conference as always. Thanks to TESOL-Spain for the invite and to NILE for the sponsor. And thanks to eeryone who came to my talks. Here are the links that I promised:
Teacher Talk: Quality not quantity
If you came to this talk, you might remember (or you might not!) that we didn’t get all the way […]

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Look! The good people at English Central recorded my webinar: ‘Using Images Creatively’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3ikWbyb8o

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=856E_Z-azXk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUPZwGBBBII

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JQ3aZhuJto

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-K8RxWB_Q

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGuS5BhvnM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdKaEZbTWTU

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On Tuesday 29th September, I’ll be giving a Webinar titled Using Images Creatively.  The event is being organized by Toronto-based English Central and if anyone would like to join us online, please feel free to do so. There’s no charge. The only catch is that it may be quite late in the evening if you […]

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Thanks to everyone who came along to the Oxford University Press event in Cardiff last week where I was presenting a few ideas from my new book: Images. I shared the session with two other writers from the series - Hans Mols and Ken Wilson.

Me (’Creative ideas using images’)

Hans Mols (’Creative ideas for teaching grammar […]

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On the way back from the Andalucian capital, my friend Daniel Barber (that’s Barber of of Cádiz, not Seville) informed me that the university building that the conference took place in used to be a cigarette factory (la Real Fábrica de Tabacos).
So I found this 1915 painting by local artist Gonzalo Bilbao Martínez and it […]

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