Pete Sharma Associates

Please note that this course is now scheduled to run in Oxford on 25th – 26th September 2010.

Woke up to the sound of the postman delivering this door-stop-size new dictionary….within seconds of finishing my Shreddies the CD-ROM was loaded on my desk-top. I mean, where else would you start looking at a new lexicon? Dove straight into the iWriter and can already see some templates for writing which will make the lives of my academic writing students easier. Notice the Genie is still called the Genie and that a thesaurus has been added. The arrival of a new dictionary from the Big 4 or 5 UK publishers is always an event worth celebrating, although the price tag on this one seems a tad high at over twenty-five pounds. That’s pounds sterling, not weight.

Will no doubt explore the delights of this new dictionary over the coming weeks in advance of reviewing it for the Reviews in brief column in the EL Gazette.  I love being a reviewer, although there is now a car in our garage (bizarre concept) which rather cuts down on the space available for books. Maybe I should sell my burgeoning ELT library and get an e-book reader?

Just found the complete programme is on the web. This event is being held at IH in London on Saturday 8th May 

16.10 – 17.00: Closing Plenary: New Technology and Business English -

Pete Sharma (Macmillan Education)

This session will be a critical analysis of the impact of new technology on the field of business English, providing a comprehensive overview of how technology has affected areas within the business English profession, including testing, the Needs analysis, podcasts and vodcasts, vocabulary and M-learning, not to mention digital material for business English…..

No need to hold up your iPhone, Blackberry or Google Android in order to search for the latest e-lesson from Macmillan…just download it from here!

Thanks to Barney for the original idea, and to Nicky Hockly for the term ‘geo-tagging’…….

Thanks to all the teachers who came to the session in Madrid at the Macmillan Teacher’s day. It was great to be there!

If you need anything from the talk, just drop me mail!

Hope you had a good rest of the day….and apologies for Messi….:-)

Wow! What a FANTASTIC closing sentence to the review of Networking in English in the EL Gazette…

and NO, I didn’t write it….honestly, such narcissism and selfpraise would be unworthy of me….

enjoying the multiple tweets of the audience at the IATEFL opening plenary….and looking forward to a fantabulosa day….:-)