Meet Our Speakers - Despina Kalaitzidou

Sunday 12 February 2017

Title: Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice: a Drama Approach for EFL students

This workshop will be inspired by Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice”. The poem discusses the end of the world and the reasons that might lead to it, with “_re” being connected to “desire”, and “ice” to “hate”. This workshop will be inspired by Frost’s poem, and will concentrate on feelings. It will consist of a 40 minutes lesson plan based on drama that teachers will be able to use in their classroom with students whose level is B1 and up. Mixed ability exercises also included. This is a participatory/experiential workshop.

Meet Our Speakers - David Gibson

Sunday 12 February 2017

Title: Using Children's Picture Books in the ESL/EFL Classroom

For young children, picture books are seen as crucial in developing reading skills. Adults, too, have books in which pictures may well be just as important as words. This workshop examines ways in which students can be encouraged to pause and reflect, to see artwork as a pictorial narrative complement to the written text, generating real language naturally and fostering creativity.

Meet Our Speakers - Zhivka Ilieva & Desislava Terzieva

Saturday 11 February 2017

Title: English in the kindergarten: a world of change and emotions

For the process of foreign language teaching to be successful in the kindergarten, we need a wealth of short activities that are funny, raise positive emotions in children and are often changed because young learners have a very short attention span. Such activities are singing a song, playing a game, saying a rhyme, physical and arts and crafts activities.

Meet Our Speakers - Magdalena Wasilewska

Saturday 11 February 2017

Title: Moving Images - exploiting short films to enhance creativity and communication

Visual literacy has become an important element in the job of a teacher nowadays. In this practical workshop I would like to present various ways in which you can use short films during the lesson together with ready to use activities. Cartoons, commercials, viral videos and many others can make your lesson engaging and students motivated. Boost your students creativity and imagination by using short films during the lesson.

Meet Our Speakers - Efi Tzouri & Dimitra Christopoulou

Sunday 12 February 2017

Title: Performing Street Theatre in ELT class

This talk-workshop focuses on the educational value of performing arts in ELT class through the prism of Street theatre, examines the connection of street theatre’s theory to pedagogy, explains why performing arts are a powerful vehicle in learning process and practically suggests self-expression and interaction through experimental activities.

Efi Tzouri studied English Language and Literature in Greece. She specialised in Theatre education and production and teaches English for over 16 years. Board member of TESOL Macedonia-Thrace Association. Theatre and film lover. TEDx goer. She shares on @efitzouri.

Dimitra Christopoulou has been teaching english English for ten years. She is a freelance teacher teaching all ages and levels. She has been trained at the Hellenic American Union and has also taken courses on translation too.

Meet Our Speakers - Zoi Tsiviltidou

Sunday 12 February 2017

Title: Micro-blogging as homework: Building a community of online storytellers

Social media networking and sharing tools have bridged digital media literacy to online interaction-based English language teaching for better task performance rates. Micro- blogging is an alternative to homework for writing and editing skills and we will discuss using illustrative examples the role this tool can play in building a community of language learners as young online storytellers.

Meet Our Speakers - Daniella De Winter

Sunday 12 February 2017

Title: Teaching Reading to Dyslexic Learners of All Ages

SoftRead method prevents dyslexic failures and is extremely successful with dyslexic readers of all ages.

In the talk, I show short videos of dyslexic adults and children struggling with reading. I explain their difficulties and how we can overcome them thanks to the method. I also give many helpful tips and support everything with practical examples.