— The Linguaviva Centre —

- IN-SERVICE COURSE FOR NON-NATIVE TEACHERS OF ENGLISH —

2-week course timetable (40 hours)

Monday: Exploring your own English language ability, describing things in detail, Rhythm and Stress, Limericks, Poetry (Mr Darren Orr)

Tuesday: Warmers, Fillers, Activities to help activate learners' language (Ms Noelle Galvin)

Wednesday: Pronunciation, The Sound System, Word and sentence stress, Intonation, Connected speech (Mr Darren Orr)

Thursday: Approaches to teaching grammar, Modal Verbs from elementary to advanced, what modals do we introduce - when and how? (Mr Stuart Tynan)

Friday: Listening skills, Preparing a listening lesson, Songs... for listening skill development, for vocabulary building, for raising awareness of features of colloquial speech (Mr Darren Orr)

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Monday: Theory, What are webquests and digital stories?, How to create a webquest and digital stories, Practice: Complete a webquest and create a digital story (Mr Stuart Tynan)

Tuesday: Phrasal verbs, The grammar behind multi-word verbs, How to teach phrasal verbs, Raising awareness of collocation and connotation (Mr Darren Orr)

Wednesday: Newspapers, Making use of authentic materials, Newspapers, Realia, The five P's (Mr Colm Geiran)

Thursday: Podcasting, Use of the Speakout series, Creating your own podcast, Involving your students in the learning environment (Mr Colm Geiran)

Friday: Presentation of Pre-course task, Adapting and Evaluating material for the EFL classroom, Games for communication and further practice of items previously taught, Use of Video (Mr Darren Orr)