Teaching Tips from Hot Spot co-author Colin Granger

Enjoy Colin Granger's advice on how to start a lesson.
Besides, you can enjoy listening to excellent English!

The perils of teaching pronunciation!

Enjoy the video.

Happy Teachers' Day!

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” Kahlil Gibran

Happy day for those ones who have chosen a wonderful way of living: just sharing enriching experiences with students every day.
Let's celebrate the opportunity of being able to earn a living doing what we love doing!

And we've reached the headlines!!! ;- )

An excellent tool for practising pronunciation

Hi!
I've found this wonderful tool presented in J.C.Wells's blog.
I think it's worth trying. Just write the text you want to practise and the avatar will pronounce it for you.
Professor Wells asserts it even shows differences between American and British English.
Enjoy it!

Another interesting post from DCblog

It shows how we have to check information before asserting it is true.
Hope it helps!

Practical Issues in EFL in San Justo

We've been to San Justo.

 In this photo: Cristina Rivas, me, Adriana Díaz, Claudia Piccirilli, Verónica Furlani and Gisela Tregnaghi.

People at Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes "Int. Ángel Pedrazzoli" gave us a really warm welcome.

It's been great to meet our ex-students who are now hard-working colleagues.

The venue was "La Casa del Libro", a very comfortable and well-equipped conference room.

The Head of the Esc. de Bellas Artes spoke about the importance of having professional development courses when she introduced the first presenter.

Prof. Gisela Tregnaghi introduced Claudia Piccirilli to the audience.

Claudia started her Story telling workshop, which was followed attentively by the audience.

People in the audience followed the different stories and analysed together with Claudia details about ways of telling them to students and how this can enhance motivation.

The second workshop was taught by Cristina Rivas, who presented classroom activities for children. She showed how we can change traditional activities in order to have fun in the classroom. Something children can profit from.

Then we had break for lunch.

The third workshop was devoted to find ways of exploiting texts in order to enhance learners participation in awareness rising activities.

The last workshop was lead by Adriana Díaz, who dispelled myths we used to share on certain pronunciation topics. She called them "ghosts" and was really successful in "busting" them.

The receptive audience made us feel that the trip was worth doing and we are willing to go back to San Justo whenever the opportunity comes.

Thanks a lot to everybody who made this meeting so rewarding.

See you soon!