Pete Sharma Associates

Need a 3-D lesson to spice-up a cold grey day? Look no further than through those chunky specs and download the latest business e-lesson on Avatar. Love it or loathe it, it’s a must-see movie and this lesson is designed to get your student’s celluloid juices flowing….. enjoy another Titanic class.

Yow-eeeeeee. Just looked at the E-lesson warehouse and it’s brimming with off-the shelf lessons. Nice one, Macmillan.

Our latest book will soon be in a shop near you.

For more information, please visit the Macmillan website.

If you can’t wait until your local book seller can provide you with a copy, you can also pre-order from Amazon.

Enjoy it!!

Two very different articles are published this month, on the same subject by the same author (Pete Sharma)

Article 1

The rise and rise of interactive whiteboards

“I love my interactive whiteboard (IWB) and my students love it too”

 “What’s the point of spending our budget on interactive whiteboards? Can you prove they make learning better?”

Once again, a battle rages in the world of language teaching. Although the IWB has come to symbolise and typify the ‘digital divide’, this is more than just a battle between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’,’

For the rest of this article, see: English Teaching Professional Issue 66 January 2010

Article 2

Ten things to do with an interactive whiteboard

As the virtual dust settles in the latest battle about interactive whiteboards (IWBs), – “to use or not to use?”- played out on on-line forums by passionate supporters and equally passionate detractors, Pete Sharma looks at ten things to do with….an IWB.

1 Don’t buy one

For the rest of this article, see: Modern English Teacher Volume 19 Number 1 January 2010

Enjoy….

We very much hope you like our ‘new look’ front page. We aim to change the photo monthly to show somewhere one of us is presenting – so February’s difficult – Cologne and Barcelona / Cologne OR Barcelona?

The video is our first experiment. Video clips are something we will be working on this year – we are intending to try our hand at video editing later this month. The results will be posted on the ‘Subscription’ part of our site.

I am sitting at home and typing this rather than attending the BETT exhibition – a trip too far after the light snow flurries which send my front wheels spinning….oh, to be in a country which grinds to halt when it snows….from a man who used to live in Finland.

I am currently editing the Winter 2009 – 2010 CALL Review. It’s a cracking edition!

PSA’s very own Byron Russell kicks off with a look at the future for ELT publishers. Valentina Dodge has contributed an exhilarating article on English 360. Maurice Claypole has sunmitted a fascinating article of particular interest to ESP and CLIL teachers. Then there’s Wordle…Facebook….and much more…..

Will you read it? It’s as easy as ABC – it will soon be available to download from the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG website. Not a SIG member? now that’s a different story….I guess you could, er, borrow a pals…? Beg, steal or borrow a virtual copy? Or, simply, eat your heart out and, er, join IATEFL

Wishing all our readers a Happy and successful New Year….from a snowy Stratford-upon-Avon.