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BIG NEWS...NEW STUFF...READ NOW!..
Daniel's latest book, "30 Hot Conversation Lessons", is finally available to download: get your FREE SAMPLE COPY right now! The free download contains all the "how to" stuff, very useful for less-experienced teachers, plus 3 freee lessons. Want all 30 lessons? For just €9.99, you can download the whole book which has 30 conversation lessons ready to print out. I've tested these lessons with my own students and so can guarantee they work! Your private students, for example, will love this stuff! Free conversation lessons
We are now running a FORUM for those in the language school industry (teachers, academic management, school owners). Why not come and vist?
And then there's Daniel's new BLOG: "Selling Learning, Learning Selling" is a blog for those who believe, like we do, that good, ethical schools CAN be commercially successful. If you're interested in the business, check it out!
Being a teacher can be a lonely job. Of course, you are always working with people, but many teachers have little direct contact with colleagues and often there may by no support offered from academic management, let alone on-the-job training.
For many teachers the only way to develop professionally is to take the initiative and search out resources for themselves, so as to be able to try new ideas and so gain experience.
On these pages you will find training materials and classroom resources developed in-house, plus links to classroom resources, articles and other useful resources available elsewhere. Just follow the links on the left of this page.
There's also a teaching FAQ page: if you have a question, why not email it to us on info@madrelinguabologna.com? We'll do our best to reply to your email, and post your question and the answer on the FAQs page for everyone to read.
For teachers based in or near Bologna, Italy, we offer a free monthly training session, usually on a weekday morning when people are less likely to be working. Please come if you can! All teachers are welcome, wherever they work and whatever their level of experience, but please let us know in advance if you'd like to come so we have an idea of the numbers. For booking or further details please email: info@madrelinguabologna.com
Other topics we have covered recently include: Lessons from learners - What teachers can learn from students, Graded Readers and how to exploit them, The International Phonetic Alphabet - why, when, how to use it, What students want, The Uses and Abuses of Coursebooks, Grammar your students just won't learn, The Uses and Abuses of Testing , Software and Internet resources for the language classroom, Teaching with video and DVD, Exams and levels, Teaching Very Young Learners, B2B and individual students, Teaching Pronunciation, Theories of Language Learning, Ten ways to be a better language teacher and others which I can't now remember! View teacher-training resources available online!
Future topics will depend on the needs of our staff, and on any requests received, so if you have any ideas, for topics which you think would be useful, please let us know.
If you can't make it to one of our training sessions because you're working or because you're too far away, why not look at the session resources (follow the link on the left) or visit Daniel's teaching blog? You can leave a comment!
We are currently developing a site for learners of English.There will be quizzes and other things for students to do. Why not take a look? www.imparareinglese.co.uk