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10.- THE TOOLS FOR TEACHERS WINTER WORKSHOPS
The Tools for
Teachers Winter Workshops
July,
20—28, 2010
Venues:
SBS Palermo, Coronel Diaz 1747, Ciudad de Buenos Aires
SBS Barrio Norte, Córdoba 1840, Ciudad de Buenos Aires
SBS Martinez,
Hipólito Irigoyen, 2801, Ciudad de Buenos Aires
SBS Belgrano, Juramento 2588, Ciudad de Buenos
Aires
Fees: $45
or $40 (students) for each three hour session. $76 or $69 (students) for any
two sessions. Any three sessions $100, four sessions $120, five, six or the
complete course $150. Please Note that All Sessions are Self Contained.
Credit
cards accepted.
The
schedule at a glance in chronological order. Please note that the same workshop
is offered twice, except for Personality
Types (which is a four hour session, but the fee is the same as the
others). Details of PRE-REGISTRATION are given way down below.
Tues.
20/7, 10 to 13: Contemporary
Colloquial English I Barrio Norte
Tues. 20/7,
14 to 17: Contemporary
Colloquial English II Barrio Norte
Wed. 21/7,
10 to 13: Really Practical Activities
Wed. 21/7,
14 to 17: Bring Movement To The
Classroom
Thurs.
22/7, 10 to 13: Vulgar English
Thurs. 22/7, 14 to 17: Pronunciation Traps Barrio Norte
Friday,
23/7, 10 to 14: Discovering Your
Personality, Barrio
Norte
Sat. 24/7,
10 to13: Contemporary Colloquial
English I Belgrano
Mond.
26/7, 10 to13: Contemporary Colloquial
English II
Mond.
26/7, 14 to 17: Really Practical
Activities
Tues.
27/7, 10 to 13: Bring Movement To The
Classroom Barrio Norte
Wed. 28/7,
11 to 14: Vulgar English
Wed. 28/7,
15 to 18: Pronunciation Traps
1. CONTEMPORARY COLLOQUIAL AMERICAN
ENGLISH AS HEARD ON TV SITCOMS AND SOAP OPERAS
Tuesday, July 20, 10:00 to 13:00
at SBS Barrio Norte or Saturday,July 24 at SBS Belgrano
Can you answer these questions?
If you were ragging on somebody
what exactly would you be doing?
If I tell somebody knock yourself
out am I asking them to become unconscious?
Is a slammer someone who slams?
If somebody gets canned, does he
necessarily go to the can?
What is the difference between
wait and wait up?
When would you say that somebody
has some junk in their trunk?
You will find the answers to these
questions and dozens of others in this workshop, which is based on an analysis
of well over five hundred hours of recorded language of the American English
variety as it is used in sitcoms and soap operas. This workshop highlights the
substantial gap between the language the student is exposed to in most
textbooks and colloquial, conversational English.
NB Please note that the immense
majority of the expressions to be presented are well known in the
Tuesday, July 20, 14:00 to 17:00
at SBS Barrio Norte or Monday, July 26, 10:00 to 13:00 at SBS
Test your knowledge of English at
a really advanced level:
What sort of people are most
likely to sashay?
What might be the point of
sandbagging?
Does a bookmaker make books?
Does a home wrecker necessarily
destroy the furniture in your house?
Can you complete the following:
He talks a blue…
The library is just a hop, a skip
and a …..from here.
We think very much alike: we are
on the same ……
That’s really stupid! That’s a
lame ....... answer.
Following the spirit of previous
TOOLS FOR TEACHERS language workshops, we will focus on lexical items, turns of
phrase and idioms in contemporary English.
NB: You
don’t need to have done COLLOQUIAL AMERICAN ENGLISH as announced above in order
to do this one. All of our language workshops are self-contained.
3. REALLY PRACTICAL: ACTIVITIES
YOU CAN USE RIGHT AWAY
Wednesday, July 21, 10:00 to 13:00
or Monday, July 26, 14:00 to 17:00 both at SBS
This workshop will present a
number of activities which participants will be able to use in their classrooms
right away without the need of elaborate aids. We will explore ways to make our
lessons more interesting, to encourage our students to be more creative, and to
present information in a way which is memorable. We will make use of simple
visual aids, traditional stories, and recall exercises, to develop an atmosphere
conducive to effective learning. We will present activities such as The Johari
Window, Snap, the disappearing sentence and the ever intriguing mental
telepathy. This session is a revised version of Ideas That Work.
4. BRINGING MOVEMENT TO THE LANGUAGE
CLASSROOM
Wednesday, July 21, 14:00 to 17:00
at SBS
How would you like to use with
your students simple, easy to show body movements to:
introduce, review and consolidate
vocabulary
practice a wide variety of
grammatical structures
encourage precision in the use of
language
develop writing skills
foster creativity
enhance the students’ self-esteem
promote health and well being
This can be achieved when we use
language to describe and carry out breathing exercises, gentle stretching,
turning, twisting, and balancing movements. You will be adding an incredible
resource to not only teach language—your primary aim—but to motivate your
students and yourself, create good feelings and make the acquisition of
language an enjoyable process. This workshop will tell you exactly how.
Participants will receive a
generous handout with instructions on how to put the ideas presented into
practice.
5. VULGAR ENGLISH: A FASCINATING
JOURNEY TO THE WORLD OF PROFANITY, TABOOS AND FORBIDDEN ENGLISH, REVISED
EDITION
Thursday, July 22, 10:00 to 13:00
at SBS
In this
revised and updated version of a by now classic workshop we will explore areas
of language not often covered even in advanced textbooks and find out:
The really
offensive words in English
The
changing nature of taboos
The hidden
meaning of some innocent looking words
How
euphemisms become taboo words
The
multiplicity of uses of four letter words such as f***
Words and
expressions which designate biological processes
Vulgar/impolite
language often heard on TV
Which
words English speakers favour when hurling insults
…and much
more
Participants
in this three hour workshop will receive a handout with exercises, an answer
key and an annotated bibliography. They will also listen to a recording of a
comedian talking about the seven words which you cannot use on the radio or TV.
6. ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION TRAPS
Thursday, July 22, 14:00 to 17:00
at SBS Barrio Norte, or Wednesday, July 28, 15:00 to 18:00 at SBS
Consider the following:
Are the word SEW and SO pronounced
the same or different?
How many ways are there to sound
the word BOW and what do they mean?
Do the letters EO represent the
same sound in words such as LEOPARD and LEOTARD?
How do you pronounce geographical
names such as
What different sounds to the
letters OUGH represent?
Where does the main stress fall in
words such as AUTHORITATIVE, FACILITATE, TRANSLATE, SYSTEMATIZE, ORGANIZE,
etc.?
We will look at words which might
seem to set a trap for the unwary student in an attempt to cope with difficult
areas of the English pronunciation system.
7.GETTING TO KNOW YOURSELF AND
YOUR STUDENTS: DISCOVERING PERSONALITY TYPES
Friday, July 23, 10:00 to 14:00,
SBS Barrio Norte
Why bother about personality
types? How can this workshop assist you in becoming a more effective teacher?
This workshop will
provide insights into human
behaviour
enable you to focus on what distinguishes one person from another
explain why we act so differently confronted with the same stimuli
help you develop better communication skills
avoid misunderstandings when we assume we are all alike
adapt our teaching to different
personality types
We tend to think that the world is
as we see it through our own eyes, and that our behaviour is the norm. We
sometimes find it strange to accept that our ways are not the ways of other
people. Why, for instance, do some people need to work with the support of a
group while others prefer to strike out on their own and need to be by
themselves? Why is it that some people plan exactly how they are going to spend
their weekend, while others prefer to leave it to chance and feel constrained
if they have to decide way ahead of time? Over and above this, how might
recognizing different personality types help us become more effective teachers?
This workshop will help you take the first steps in a life changing journey.
All of the workshops will be conducted
by
ORIEL E.
VILLAGARCIA
Profesor en Inglés with the Magna Cum Laude
distinction, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Master of Arts, University of Lancaster, post graduate
studies, University of Texas, Fulbright and British Council Scholar. He has taught at the Univ. Católica de Salta,
Univ. Nac. de Santiago del Estero, and Univ. Nac. de Rio Cuarto. He was on the Advisory Panel for
the Macmillan English Dictionary, 1st edition. He is an NLP Master
Practitioner, Certificate of Completion,
Certificates
of attendance will be issued
How to register:
Send an email to newtoolsforteachers@yahoo.com.ar
with your full name, address and telephone numbers indicating the name of the
workshop or workshops, the date and the venue you want to attend. You will then
receive an acknowledgment of pre-registration, which will enable you to pay the
fee a short while before the workshop takes place, i.e. in SBS Barrio Norte, or
SBS Palermo or SBS Martinez or SBS Belgrano. The addresses of these branches of
SBS are given above.
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