Pete Sharma Associates

Macmillan have just uploaded the latest business English E-lesson on the recent global product recall by the well-known Japanese car firm.

So turn on your engine, rev up and accelerate into the classroom….

Hi all

we are aiming to merge the te4be website with the Pete Sharma Associates site. It makes perfect sense to combine the sites.

As of next week, the new address will be: www.psa.eu.com

If you type in te4be, you will be re-directed.

We hope to make the site bigger and better over the coming months – thanks for all your support!

Pete & Barney

Huge thanks to Lindsay Clandfield for embedding the YouTube clips into my recent contribution to his Six things blog.

WARNING: bad language – not for those of a nervous disposition…

See the complete entry at Lindsay Clandfield’s SIX THINGS blog…..

Delighted to be interviewed shortly in Second Life.

When? Monday March 8th 6.30pm (GMT)

Click on the picture to see details.

More details (SLURL) to follow……

Nice to be invited to do sessions at the BESIG pre-conference event in Bielefeld later this year.

Just got my copy of the latest BESIG Issues and immediately thumbed to the Learning Technologies page by Barney and myself, as you do. It’s on Business Result Elementary CD-ROM (OUP) and outlines Barney’s first Truman-like steps into the dizzy world of interactive whiteboards…..

Carl Dowse has been updating the BESIG website. Nice. There’s a new Newsletter page and on it, you can now get a back issue of one of our Learning Technologies pages.

In the meantime, Macmillan have recently uploaded the latest business English e-lesson on the iPad. So, print and go! We have just heard from Macmillan that Networking is moving off the shelves faster than Usain Bolt-lightning, so we are well pleased tonight……yippee. Thanks to anyone who has bought it. Looking forward to giving the first presentation on it this weekend in Cologne. Hope my socialising skills are up to it.

You may notice that our website is changing – FAST!

Carousel: Barney has been playing around with a ‘carousel’ for displaying photos. Please visit our Photo Gallery and click on the latest photo from Oman to see the results of his Herculean labours.

More links: We are now posting up Links – click on Blogs to visit the latest award-winning blog supporting Global.

Networking  in English: if you don’t know what’s in our fabby new book, just click here – Networking in English

Student area: There is now a STUDENT AREA. Send your students there to use the Macmillan Online Dictionary, get the URL for the free downloadable version of Adrian Underhill’s Phonemic chart and other stuff which will help them in their learning of English…. To access this area, simply ask your students to go to the Materials for learning page and then click on the blue button. We have just posted a graphics-lite version of Pete’s presentation at Oxford Brookes to students on the Guided Lecture program: Technology and language learning. Enjoy.

Thanks to vereyone who came to my session! I really enjoyed it.

I have put together a one-page Handout with the web-site adresses which came up in the session – enjoy!

If you need any other references, please just mail me!

Best wishes from Pete

Understandably excited about the arrival of our latest book – Networking in English – we have made a video of Pete explaining the benefits and the thinking behind the syllabus.

If you haven’t already seen it head straight for the homepage of te4be and take a look.

The 3D version will be available as soon as James Cameron calls us from Hollywood!

The latest CALL Review has just been uploaded to the IATEFL learning technologies SIG website.

It has an article from PSA Director, Byron Russell and the creator of this very site, Barney Barrett. Here are the contents:

• Now for something completely different: EFL publishers in a digital age – Byron Russell
• Towards a 360° view of content creation – Valentina Dodge
• A Multi-level Blended Approach to ESP and CLIL – Maurice Claypole
• Intensifying intrinsic motivation using CD-ROM – Marie Cosgrove
• Word clouds: using Wordle in language teaching – Barney Barrett
• Using Facebook to improve students’ writing – Luke Fletcher
• Tips for the on-line conference moderator – Nicky Hockly

Enjoy!!