This week, we are going to talk abut open educational resources (OER) and what they mean for us a teachers and materials developers. All of us have used freely available teaching resources at one time or another. But how do we know what we're allowed to use? And do we know how we're allowed to […]

In this interactive workshop, we’ll look at different ways that we can assess our learners’ communication skills and how we can provide more support to all our learners in the classroom. We’ll analyse different approaches to assessing written work and share some ideas for easy-to-use tech to assess speaking. Click here to register

Are you teaching in higher education in Germany? If you are, your courses have most likely been moved online for the 3rd semester in this pandemic. You’ve probably been told that you can’t run your language exams on campus this semester. Are you wondering how you’re going to assess your students? Are you looking for […]

Writing good comprehension activities is hard, but Sue is ready to help us take on the challenge in this online workshop. She’ll take us through different stages of writing a skills lesson, including lead-in activities, comprehension and language focus; present some rules and guidelines that can help; and also go into some detail on how […]

In this highly interactive workshop, I would like to share insights into the world of leadership development (the challenges leaders face and the training and coaching solutions I typically provide). We'll explore the opportunities and challenges for ELT professionals to increase further the scope of their activity beyond language. More details here, and to register, […]

In our first session, we look at what a lexical way of looking at language involves - and how it differs from a more traditional grammar + words approach. We’ll explore why a grammar plus words approach can be hard to sustain, and consider some of the problems it presents in terms of classroom content. […]

Global school closures mean that even teachers who have avoided online teaching are being forced to deliver lessons and/or content to their students digitally. In the absence of face-to-face contact, good assessment is more important than ever in providing feedback to students and keeping them engaged and motivated. In this session, we’ll talk about some […]

Why do we call it “hardware”? Because it’s hard to choose and hard to use, or so it seems sometimes. If you want to make a better impression in your virtual live sessions, but haven’t yet found the right equipment, this Tech Talk is for you. We’ll be talking about picture and sound quality, and […]

In 1981, Spotlight magazine was founded with the aim of helping German-speaking learners to improve their English via journalistic content that was more up-to-date and entertaining than course books and also more accessible than regular English-language media. Forty years later, Spotlight Verlag is part of the ZEIT Publishing Group in Hamburg and publishes six magazines […]