Refresher Courses for Teachers of English

Courses delivered in two week blocks
Comenius funding available for E.U. Students

Programme

These courses are intensive ten day courses of 15 hours or 25 hours per week. It includes an update on current English Language Teaching pedagogy in the UK and a review of current materials and examinations. The course includes a refresher programme in oral and written English skills at an advanced level. Our staff are all DELTA qualified teachers and have been teaching English for an average of 10 years. Participants with full attendance receive a Regent Certificate and a progress report.

Teaching methodology sessions normally take place in the mornings. Overseas Teachers will normally join a general English language skills class (at their level) in the afternoons.

Courses available at: London and Oxford

Course participants

All course participants should be teachers of English or trainee teachers of English in their native country.

Sample Timetable

Week 1	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
09.00- 10.30	Ice-breakers - Getting to know your activities - Warmers and fillers - Revision activities	Error Correction - Approaches to error correction - When? What? Why? - Reformulation	Dictation in the class - Your experience - New ways - Why dictation?	Collocation and word-building - What are collocations? - Collocation games - Vocabulary Building	Dictionaries - The pros and cons of dictionaries - Types of dictionaries - Dictionary activities
10.30- 11.00	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
11.00- 12.30	Methodologies and coursebooks - Latest methodologies - The coursebook Analysing new material	Teaching writing skills - What to teach - Practice & fleuncy activities Process writing	Music and songs - Why songs? - New ideas Practical suggestions	Learning-training - What makes a good learner? - Vocabulary strategies Learner independence	Using video - Why use video? - Pre and post-viewing activities - Latest materials
12.30- 13.30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13.30- 15.30	General English	General English	General English	General English	General English

Week 2	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
09.00- 10.30	Classroom management - Roles of the teacher - Instructions and Boardwork - Discipline	Using readers in the classroom - Types of reader - Reasons for using readers - Activities for readers	Using the Internet - Useful sites for students - Class activities - Resource sites for teachers	Teaching literature - Exploiting texts - Making poetry accessible - Which texts work best?	Open workshop session - Contributions from teachers - Questions on previous sessions - Sources for further development
10.30- 11.00	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
11.00- 12.30	Phonology - Individual sounds - Word and Sentence stress - Intonation	Teaching listening skills - Listening strategies - Techniques/ideas - Practice material	Spoken fluency - Task types: accuracy vs fluency - Problems with fluency - Solutions	Exams and assessment - Continuous assessment - The EFL exam system Strategies for teaching exam classes	Bookshop visit - Your feedback - Final questions - Bookshop visit
12.30- 13.30	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13.30- 15.30	General English	General English	General English	General English	General English

_{• All timetables are samples and may be subject to change.}
The course content is negotiated based on the pre-course evaluations and group discussion on the first day. Sessions on teaching business English, learner training, presentations in the classroom, using video, task based learning and so on can also substituted.

LANGUAGE IMPROVEMENT: Teachers can improve their language skills in afternoon lessons where they can choose from the following options – authentic English, literature, grammar workshop or communication skills.

Dates 2010

Regent London	Regent Oxford
04.01 - 15.01.10	04.01 - 15.01.10
29.03 - 09.04.10	29.03 - 09.04.10
28.06 - 09.07.10	28.06 - 09.07.10
12.07 - 23.07.10	12.07 - 23.07.10
06.12 - 17.12.10	06.12 - 17.12.10

Fees per week 2010

	Regent London	Regent Oxford
15 hours morning course	£249	-
25 hours full day course	£340	£340

Groups

If you are a group of teachers, then we will be very happy to design a tailor-made-closed-group course, covering any particular requirements you may have. We are also able to send experienced trainers to your country to deliver training courses. Please ask us for a quotation.
For groups of more than 10 students please contact us for a special quotation. > See accommodation fees

28.06 - 09.07.10