ELT Calendar

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

Nellie's ELT Workshop and Book Fair 2005 in Tokyo
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Speaker: Several speakers
Organization: Nellie's Group, Ltd.
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: At the Nellie's Workshop and Book Fair 2005 in Tokyo there will be displays from various well-known publishers, the latest in ELT materials and children's items available at a 15 per cent discount and a chance to take part in the many workshops being held by Japan's leading ELT professionals.

Chugoku ETJ Expo
Time: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Speaker:
Organization: ETJ (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Short description: Bringing All English Teachers together! The Chugoku ETJ Expo is one of the major annual events for English teachers in the Chugoku region. There are presentations on teaching children, adults, junior/senior high school students.

Teacher Development Intensive Course (Assessing and Testing Learning)
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Hamish Buchan (British Council Tokyo)
Organization: The British Council Tokyo Centre
Location: Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis
Short description: In this course, we will identify ways of monitoring and assessing learning appropriate to the purpose of a lesson and distinguish between teaching and testing activities.

Practical Phonics
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: David Boudreau
Organization: ETJ Niigata (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture
Short description: David Boudreau will lead a discussion on practical phonics examples and methods, and why it's so important for English competency in Japan. He'll also report on the recent ELT Tokyo Expo/Bookfair.

JALT JSL SIG and Chiba Chapter Joint Meeting
Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Speaker: Roberta Welch, Fujie Hiroko, Sato Hiroko, Markus Rude
Organization: Chiba Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture
Short description: Three presentations: Individualized long-term reading (poster presentation, Welch, English); How to use newspapers for upper-beginner and lower-intermediate Japanese learners (Fujie and Sato, English and Japanese); How To create a vocabulary learning file with Excel (Rude, English) The three presentations will be followed by questions, an information exchange and network expansion.

ETJ Fukuoka December Workshop and Christmas Tea Party
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:50 PM
Speaker: Akiko Kokubu, Yuka Komiguchi and Tim Dickens
Organization: ETJ Fukuoka (English Teachers in Japan)
Location: Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Short description: 1) Presentations: Fun activities for Eiken 5th Grade Test (Akiko Kokubu), Christmas activities (Yuka Komiguchi), Sharing teaching tips (Timothy Dickens) 2) Book Exchange (Trade) - Please bring English books or teaching materials you don't use anymore.