"Teaching Conversation for the Workplace" Workshop

2010-03-05 21:45 | Maria Małgorzata Cyrankowska

IATEFL Business English Special Interest Group
in cooperation with Kraków Region
invite to a workshop conducted by
Evan Frendo

Teaching conversation for the workplace

DATE: 27 March 2010

VENUE: Bell Kraków, ul. Michałowskiego 4, room 6

Many of our Business English classes involve conversation - often it happens spontaneously, but it can also be planned. In this workshop I will take a brief look at some of the options available to teachers to optimize the teaching of conversation, including techniques for focusing on lexis and grammar, treating conversation as discourse, and using a genre approach. The workshop will include background theory as well as practical activities to take away for your class next Monday morning.

Plan of the workshop

• 15.00 – 16.30 PART ONE
• 16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
• 17.00 – 18.30 PART TWO

Number of places is limited, the participants will be selected on the first come first served basis. All participants will be awarded a certificate of attendance.

Fee

• non IATEFL members – PLN 15.00
• IATEFL members – free of charge

Registration by mail

BESIG Coordinator – Dorota Kulas (dorotakulas@interia.pl)

Deadline of the registration: 24 March 2010

Speaker’s profile

Evan Frendo is a freelance Business English trainer, teacher trainer, EFL consultant and author based in Berlin, Germany. He works in both Asia and Europe and has extensive experience in the field of Business English training. His clients include multinationals where he advises on course design and trainer management, as well as organisations like Cambridge ESOL and EDI where he works as a consultant. Evan is a regular presenter at ELT conferences (including IATEFL Poland), and also runs Business English and ESP teacher training workshops and courses. He has authored or co-authored various books over the years, including How to teach Business English (Longman, 2005), the Double Dealing Series of coursebooks (Summertown, 2004-2006), English for Accounting (OUP 2007), and Working in Asia (Cornelsen, 2010). He is an ex Honorary Secretary of IATEFL as well as an ex coordinator of BESIG. Evan has an LCCI Diploma in Teaching English for Business and a Masters degree in Teaching English for Specific Purposes.