« July 2010 » Sun Mon Tue Wed  Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ..Month.. JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER ..Year.. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009   Hornby Report 30/10/2009 Enjoy this rich and last Hornby report by Chris Lima     This is my last report as a Hornby Scholar since my course is now officially over. 30th September was the last day of my journey in the Masters in Education – ELT Trainer Devel ...   2 comment(s) • comment!     Halloween Activities 21/10/2009 There are lots of activities for Halloween on LearnEnglish Kids, the British Council’s site for young learners, which you can use with your students to mark the occasion.They range from a song about a Scary Skeleton to a story about a Haunted House, from a Halloween fac ...   0 comment(s) • comment!     Mr Lazy - giving advice 5/10/2009   This lesson plan is about giving advice, and involves creating grammar chants to present and practise target structures.   Age group – young learnersLevel – pre-intermediate/intermediate   Through the us ...   0 comment(s) • comment!     International English Language Testing System (IELTS) 2/10/2009 Are you familiar with the IELTS exam, accepted in thousands of educational institutions all over the world, including the UK, USA and Australia? This is usually a pre-requisite for those seeking to study abroad at post-graduate level, and is valid for 2 years.Here on th ...   0 comment(s) • comment!     “Weapons of mass Instruction” 2/10/2009 It is not often that we see military metaphors such as the one above being used in a peaceful or constructive context, but this quote from a speech at the 15th CIEAD - Congresso Internacional de Educação a Distância, given by Prof. Mahmood-ul-Hassan Butt from Pakistan’s ...   3 comment(s) • comment!     English in a State of Flux: LABCI Conference 2009 1/10/2009   Held in the beautiful city of Buenos Aires, the XII meeting of the Latin American British Cultural Institutes was originally due to take place in July but was postponed to 17-19 September as a result of the ban on large gatherings earlier this year to av ...   0 comment(s) • comment!     ELTRA - English Language Teaching Research Awards 2009 24/6/2009   The British Council is launching a scheme to fund a number of awards to facilitate the production of innovative research aimed to benefit the learning and teaching of English around the world. The deadline for the first round of applications is 31 July 2 ...   0 comment(s) • comment!     ETP in Caxias do Sul 5/10/2009 From left to right Maria Valésia da Silva, ETP Coordinator-RS, Gladis da Costa, the first teacher who received the ETP certificate and Débora Oss, ETP Coordinator-RS   The English Teachers´ Portfolio has gone beyond original expectations ...   0 comment(s) • comment!     International English Language Testing System (IELTS) 1/9/2009 Are you familiar with the IELTS exam, accepted in thousands of educational institutions all over the world, including the UK, USA and Australia? This is usually a pre-requisite for those seeking to study abroad at post-graduate level, and is valid for 2 years.Here on th ...   0 comment(s) • comment!     Join the ELT e-Reading Group 31/8/2009 ELT e-Reading Group is an initiative from a group of English language teachers from different countries worldwide.  The group works independently, with some technical and materials support from the British Council.´   The group was set up with the ...   0 comment(s) • comment!