Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration
Next year the world will be celebrating the 450th birthday of the greatest playwright of all times - William Shakespeare. We have planned a true Shakespearean spectacle: performance of his most famous verses, projections of movies based on his works, a series of video interviews with the citizens of Nis that our students will be recording, an exhibition of his portraits, scanned pages from his works, etc.
Me and my students held a meeting where we discussed and brainstormed ideas for this huge event, which will be part of Science is not a bogey pre festival activities.
Me and my students held a meeting where we discussed and brainstormed ideas for this huge event, which will be part of Science is not a bogey pre festival activities.
Macmillan Online Conference, November 11th - 15th, 2013.
Webinars are cool! This year's Macmillan Online Conference proved to be a great success. I learned a lot about dealing with teenagers, phrasal verbs and other 'tricky' language points, using Web 2.0 technology in the classroom, and above all - had such a great time. Thank you Macmillan!
Secondary Session:
- 10.00am - 10.45am - Dave Spencer: Warmers, Coolers and Lesson-Planning for teenagers
- 11.00am - 11.45am - Philip Prowse & Judy Garton-Sprenger : An insider’s guide to the new American English course for teenagers
- 12.00pm - 12.45pm - Malcolm Mann : Phrasal verbs: making do with a problematic area or coming up with practical solutions?
Exam Session:
- 2.00pm - 2.45pm - Roy Norris : Preparing for the changes to the Cambridge English: First exam
- 3.00pm - 3.45pm - Sam McCarter : Top Ten Tips for teachers preparing students for the academic version of IELTS
- 4.00pm - 4.45pm - Jaimie Scanlon : Critical Engagement in Academic English
Professional Development Session:
- 2.00pm - 2.45pm - Nik Peachy : Using Word Clouds.
- 3.00pm - 3.45pm - Pete Sharma : ‘Apptastic’
- 4.00pm - 4.45pm - Duncan Foord : Surviving language teaching
Students Speak Day
- Event Planning
- Brainstorming session with a colleague, philosophy teacher Bojana Golubovic
The English Book Oxford Day, 2013.
November 9th, 2013 - I attended a conference in Sava Centar, Belgrade, organised and sponsored by The English Book. The speakers were renowned names in English Language Teaching, Linguistics and Methodology of English: David Crystal, Adrian Tennant, Lindsay Clandfield and storyteller Jan Blake.
Razvionica - Vezbaonica, "Svetozar Markovic" Grammar School, Nis
November 24th - 25th, 2013 - A two-day seminar - The Ministry of Education's Mentoring programme for schools as practice grounds for students - future teachers. I am looking forward to mentoring some young minds and helping them to become great teachers!
Seminar - Teaching to Multiple Intelligences, Jann Huizenga, "Kupina" cinema, Nis
November 28th, 2013 - Teaching to Multiple Intelligences, a seminar given by Jann Huizenga, a teacher trainer, materials writer and educator coming from the States. Who'd say I was a naturalist :)
Book Fair, Nis 2013.
November 29th, 2013 - I took a group of students to this year's Book fair, and although we were not able to buy anything, we simply enjoyed being in the crowd of book lovers and the smell of new and old books... Life without books is not worth living!