Webinar with Penny Ur

Webinar with Penny Ur July 11: 10:00-11:30 Register at info@melta.de

Is repetition boring? Not necessarily! Vocabulary review activities in English language teaching. In order to master a new vocabulary item, a learner needs to

encounter it many times: probably between 6 and 16. The problem for the teacher is how to provide for meaningful re-encounters with new vocabulary while maintaining student motivation and interest. In this workshop, we shall look at and experience a number of interesting vocabulary-review activities, and identify some useful underlying principles.

Penny Ur has extensive experience as an English teacher in primary, secondary and tertiary  education and has taught courses for teachers at Oranim Academic College of Education  and Haifa University. She has also lectured extensively at conferences worldwide. She is particularly interested in practical aspects of effective English language teaching, and the place of research as a source of professional knowledge. She was for ten years the editor of the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series. Her books include Grammar practice activities (2nd Edition) (2009), Vocabulary activities (2012), A course in English language teaching (2012), Discussions and more (2014), Penny Ur’s 100 tips (2016), Penny Ur’s 77 tips for vocabulary teaching (2022), all published by Cambridge University Press.

In 2013 she was awarded the OBE (Officer of the British Empire) by Her Majesty the Queen for services to English language teaching, and in 2022 the ELTons Outstanding Achievement award by the British Council.