ELT Calendar

Tuesday, November 20th, 2001

Lesson Planning By Threads
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speaker: Tessa Woodward
Organization: Hiroshima Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: In this workshop Tessa Woodward shows you a way of saving time when planning lessons. "Threads" are activities set up by you and your students which, once introduced, can be picked up again in later lessons with a minimum of explanation to run and rerun, reviewing and consolidating work on vocabulary, the four skills, social skills and/or language items.

Teaching Speaking: renewing our perspectives through discourse
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Speaker: Anne Burns, Macquarie University in Australia
Organization: Kumamoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture
Short description: (This presentation is followed by a second presentation. )Anne Burns, Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Australia and one of the Four Corners' Speakers for JALT 2001, will conduct a workshop which considers some of the implications of a discourse perspective for teaching.

Measuring School Achievement as Part of the Development of the Educational System of the Philippines in the 21st Century
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: Raul C. Laborte, Emilio Ramos National High School, Davao City, the Philippines
Organization: Kumamoto Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture
Short description: (This presentation is preceeded by another presentation. )Laborte will share his experiences teaching English at a high school in the Philippines.