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Day 1: Friday 27 February
Time Venue Activity
communicative teacher education materials that an experienced team of
Indian trainers and materials writers have developed for the British Council
BLISS (Bihar Language Initiative for Secondary Schools) project: a
teacher’s workbook and very detailed teacher educator’s notes, for Bihari
teachers and trainers.
Rosie Tanner, BA (Hons), MA, is a freelance education consultant working
in English language and bilingual teacher education.
Huma Riaz is a freelance consultant, working as a teacher, trainer and
materials writer for British Council, India.
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17.00 – 18.00 G01/02 Collins English language quiz
Travel back into the past and around the world with the Collins English
Language Quiz. This fun-filled quiz will test everyone's knowledge of
English. Take part as an individual or join up with friends to form a team.
Round 1: Dialect and accent
Competitors will listen to a range of recordings of (native-speakers of)
English today, from all over the world, and will be asked to say where in the
world the speaker comes from.
Round 2: 1000 years of history
We will be playing recordings of how English words were pronounced
hundreds of years ago for competitors to identify. We will also see if
competitors can identify words from older (and obsolete) spellings. We'll
be looking at words from Old English (e.g. Beowulf), Middle English (e.g.
Chaucer) and early modern English (Shakespeare and Milton).
Round 3: The wonderful world of words
Questions focus on some of the weird and wonderful words used in English
in different parts of the world.
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17.00 – 18.00 G03 Cambridge University Press book launch
Assessing Learners: a pedagogic resource by Geetha Durairajan from the
All About Language Teaching series
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17.00 – 18.00 G04 Top tips on writing successful multiple-choice questions, Gwendydd
Caudwell and Mark Elliott
Multiple-choice questions are used in many tests and classroom materials,
but have you ever wondered what the best way is to write a good one?
There is more to it than you think! This practical workshop will give you tips
and tricks on how to write this kind of question, common pitfalls and how
to apply these questions to assess different language skills in your
classroom. This will help you save time and be confident that you are really
testing what you want to test and help your students to become successful
learners.
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