ELT Calendar

Sunday, August 26th, 2001

Summer Workshop: Standard Speaking Test 1, 2 (day 2 of 2)
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Speaker: Mervyn Lewis as main speaker
Organization: Gunma Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gunma City, Gunma Prefecture
Short description: The theme of the 13th JALT Gunma Summer Workshop at Kusatsu is "Meeting Student's Speaking Needs". There is a call for participation (30-minute presentations related to language teaching), so to get involved, contact Gunma chapter.

Bringing Music into Your Classroom
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Speaker: Patsy Brown, Kunohe Board of Education
Organization: Iwate-Aomori Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture
Short description: If you're an EFL teacher in search of a wacky way to give practical force to seemingly impractical textbook lessons, why not try bringing music into your classroom? Using pre-listening activities, lyrical lessons, miscellaneous music materials, and music-based manuscripts, you can provide painless rehearsal and reinforcement of English structures, pronunciation, idioms, and vocabulary in a way that's sure to subdue the "sleeping student syndrome!".