Pete Sharma Associates

We are delighted to announce the launch of our latest eBook, Apptivities for business English.

At the back of the Teachers’ book, you get a CODE to pass on to your students so they can download a copy of the Students’ book!

http://the-round.com/resource/apptivities-for-business-english/

You can buy the book on Amazon or Smashwords. Smashwords provides versions for a range of different eBook formats.

You can download a sample if you want to have a look!

Tell your students about the ideas in the student’s book!

Enjoy!

OMG – here it comes – don’t miss it!!! Just go now to the Learning Technologies SIG for more details!!! http://ltsig.org.uk/

The Learning Technologies page

In this edition of BESIG Issues, the Learning Technologies page focuses on apps. First, it looks at QR code readers. It then looks at a couple of apps of interest to BESIG members: a new business English app from Collins and a dictation app.

For the rest of this article from Barney and Pete, you know what to do! Just zap up to the latest BESIG ISSUES. You will need your IATEFL password, naturally.

http://www.besig.org/newsletter/default.aspx

Alternatives to NOT reading the Learning Technologies page are: (a) come to the App session at BESIG conference in Stuttgart next month (b) eat your heart out, become sad and blue etc.

Hope you enjoy the article!!!!

THURSDAY 8th NOVEMBER – METHODOLOGY

12.30 – 13.30
Scott Thornbury: Why are we still teaching the wrong grammar the wrong way?

13.45 – 14.45
Adrian Underhill: Pronunciation: The Cinderella of ELT

15.00 – 16.00
Pete Sharma: The TIPping point: new Technologies, new Ideas and new Pedagogies

FRIDAY 9th NOVEMBER – ADULT

12.30 – 13.30
Vaughan Jones: author of Inside Out, topic tbc.

13.45 – 14.45
Louis Rogers: How specific should we be?

15.00 – 16.00
Miles Craven: Effective Scaffolding – Two practical techniques

For abstracts and to register please visit the Macmillan Online Conference webpage.

The Macmillan Online Conference

Returning for a second year this November, last year’s Macmillan Online Conference was a great success, with over 1000 teachers joining us over the two days. Like the webinars, this is a free event, and gives you the chance to hear some top authors  talk about topics that are central to ELT teaching and learning.

This year’s conference will run over the course of a week, beginning on November 5th, with two days dedicated to young learners and primary teaching, and two days to adult teaching and learning and methodology. Speakers confirmed so far include Lindsay Clandfield, Miles Craven, Scott Thornbury, Adrian Underhill, Pete Sharma and Angela LLanas.

Macmillan will be launching the conference page with full details of how to register  soon. Naturellement, we will update you on our own Events page.

Nice to see the first app to win an ELTon!

I’m pleased to say that my review of Sounds has just been published in the ELTJ.

So, if you are interested in reading it, please visit the following site:

ELTJ Review

Enjoy!

Conversation with Pete Sharma – Educator, Trainer and Author

Meet me aka. guest Pete Sharma on WizIQ at 11:30 AM (GMT) on 22nd Friday, June, when he talks about his life with Dr. Nellie Deutsch: listen , interact and ask questions as well.

To join us, please click here: http://www.wiziq.com/class/info.aspx?detail=879893-conversation-with-pete-sharma-educator-trainer-and-author&utm_source=wiziq&utm_medium=email&utm_content=conversation&utm_campaign=pete-sharma

We are DELIGHTED to say that our latest e-book – Apptivities for Business English – has just gone into labs. To click through, please click on:

http://the-round.com/labs/apptivities-for-business-english/

We hope you will be as App-y as wot we are

We are delighted that our next book (Pete & Barney) is shortly going to be in Labs. It was a great day today as Lindsay Clandfield mailled over a pic of the cover (left). I sent my PPT for the unveiling in BESIG Paris (16th June) to Carl Dowse, who has checked it works OK in Adobe platform. Exciting times……

Who is this e-book for?

This e-book is for business English teachers. It contains ideas for using apps with your student or students in-class in the classroom.  The e-book also contains ideas for your business English students to do between classes, on the move.

Plus: free Student’s e-book

All the ideas for students to use alone are available in a free e-book for students. Now, you can’t say fairer than that…..

It was a great night, from the red carpet treatment meted out by Luke Meddings welcoming us to our final spilling out into the hot London night…….proceedings started by Michael Carrier, then risque humour from the compare without compere, Scott (D-D-Don’t mention the D-word) Thornbury [see foto].

Worth if for the look on Nik Peachey’s face – he was just behind me – when he heard Bell had won for most innovative course (Blended, naturally).

The  best moment was Graham Stanley’s impersonation of the invisible man, outdoing Claude Rains himself, as Kyle Mawer (below) held the fort with his acceptance speech for the ELTon for Teacher’s Resources for their book Digital Play. Please see a rare photo of Graham actually appearing – see below.

Congrats to all in the Macmillan team who (IMHO) deservedly won an ELTon for Sounds,….. and I should know as I have reviewed it for ELTJ (Forthcoming).

I liked the idea of there being no losers (not in the sense of a European Cup Final for example) and win or not, you always have the term ‘Nominated for….’.

Lots of interesting digital stuff which I hope to explore…..a great night and thanks to all concerned!