Pete Sharma Associates

Here is a graphics-lite version of the PowerPoint for the session:

Networking in English

at the BESIG summer conference in Rome.

What’s the goal of your next lesson? Hopefully, not to fumble your lesson plan……maybe, fluency: to discuss whether a ball is round? Listening: the dulcet tones of the vuvuzela? Numbers practice: fewest goals scored? Functions – the language of regret: If only Green hadn’t…..?

Anyway, if football’s the name of the game, then why not tackle the latest e-lesson from Macmillan, which is called World Cup Fever. It takes an economic angle, and asks whether it is beneficial or not to host this great sporting event…….Enjoy (if such a thing is possible in the cock-eyed world of the beautiful game).

Came across this free eBook from Michael Zimmer. Thanks to Chris Stanzer for the original tweet, and the free technology for teachers website.

In case you missed the recent e-mail from Macmillan, please find the recent e-lesson on Vocanic Ash which erupted into the world of business English causing travel mayhem.

The headline reads: Access is still the biggest problem for mobile learning in the business English classroom.

Although proving effective, new technologies in the business English classroom still have many challenges associated with access in some parts of the world – according to leading experts in business English.

For the complete article, which reports on the recent World of Work virtual conference, see: Schools and agents.