The Cambridge Experience Madrid 2012

Saturday, 14th April 2012

Date and Venue

Saturday, 14th April 2012 Colegio de Mdicos de Madrid C/ Santa Isabel, 51 28012 Madrid www.icomem.es

Registration
Space is limited! Please conrm your attendance before Wednesday, 11th April, indicating which of the parallel sessions you wish to attend, by contacting Cambridge University Press: Phone 91 641 92 07 Email madrid@cambridge.org

Come and join us! Well be having a prize draw, so if youre lucky you could win an i Pad!

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Motivating young learners and teenagers is not easy, especially when they are preparing to take Cambridge ESOL exams. With this in mind, Cambridge University Press and Cambridge ESOL invite you to The Cambridge Experience Madrid 2012, which we hope will help you and your learners on the road to greater success.

09:30 - 10:00

Welcome and Registration Young Learners What do you mean you dont remember?! By Borja Uruuela
Memory is dened as the ability to recall past information. At the same time, ability is some kind of power that can be developed. So, how can we help young learners to increase this power in order to remember the language theyre learning? I will demonstrate some of the activities which make language more memorable and lessons more participative and enjoyable.

Teenagers Getting to grips with graphic novels by Samantha Lewis

This talk looks at the nature of graphic novels and reasons for using them with ELT students. It offers lots of fun, practical ideas to exploit graphic novels in the classroom while developing both skills and language work. It also focuses on online resources available and how to help students get creative in producing their own comics and graphic novels.

10:00 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break Think, Do, Communicate and Feel Science by Rosa Bergad and Pilar Olivares
In this session we will present how a Science CLIL sequence is developed to make students think, do, communicate and feel Science. We will give you more than just recipes for teaching CLIL. We will share a model to plan and structure meaningful activities to foster scientic thinking and language learning.

Words, words, words!! by Gerard McLoughlin

Language learners are constantly trying to update their vocabulary but have problems recording and recalling words. This workshop will look at the role of memorisation and how we can help students with their vocabulary acquisition. We also look at ways to encourage our students to record and use new expressions by using practical classroom and out of class activities.

11:30 - 12:30

Speaking and Listening for YLE by Jane Delaney 12:45 - 13:45

This is a practical session aimed at teachers new to the Cambridge ESOL Young Learners Examinations. The focus will be on practical activities to generate speaking in the Young Learners classroom and also to foster the listening skill.

What have you got to say for yourself? by Stephen Hasler

Spaniards are so good at talking, yet so often they seem to dry up in the classroom. Is this all down to the famous sentido del ridculo or are there other factors involved? Todays talk looks at these problems and shows how bringing the FCE for Schools Speaking Test into the classroom helps overcome these obstacles.

13:45

Raffle

The Speakers
Borja Uruuela is the Head of Education at St. James Language Center in Seville. He has been teaching for over 20 years and has written CLIL and Social Awareness material for Kids Box for Spanish Speakers. Borja is the President and Head of Training for ACEIA (Asociacin de Centros de Enseanza de Idiomas en Andaluca) and he is also a Cambridge speaking examiner. Rosa Bergad and Pilar Olivares have taught English and nonlinguistic subjects in English and have been involved in CLIL Programmes developed in Catalonia and Europe. Rosa works as a Primary school teacher applying CLIL methodology in the teaching of Science. Pilar works in the Departament dEnsenyament and is involved in CLIL programmes and European projects. Both are CLIL teacher training. Theyre co-authors of The Thinking Lab: Science (Cambridge University Press). Jane Delaney is a primary school teacher, and lives in Tarragona. She is an experienced Examiner, Examiner Trainer and Teacher Trainer for Cambridge ESOL and runs the British Council Examinations Centre in Tarragona. She has given many workshops and sessions on Teaching Younger Learners, and has written various materials. She is particularly interested in CLIL and getting children and teenagers to speak and write. Samantha Lewis has worked in ELT since 1994 as a teacher, teacher trainer, CELTA trainer and materials writer in Spain and the UK. Before Interactive, she co-authored Tactics, a Cambridge University Press coursebook for Spanish Upper Secondary students. She is currently working for the British Council in Alcal de Henares and studying for an MA at the University of Alcal. Gerard McLoughlin has been a teacher and teacher trainer for over 20 years. He currently works at International House, Barcelona and is the co-author of Next Generation, a Bachillerato coursebook for Cambridge University Press. He has also written Fast Forward, an ESO 4 book for Richmond and several Teachers Books. He is a board member of TESOL-SPAIN Webmaster and Resources Officer. Stephen Hasler began his association with Cambridge ESOL in 1991. Over the years he has served as Exam Supervisor, Oral Examiner, Team Leader, Regional Coordinator and Cambridge ESOL Presenter. His professional activity combines teaching and translating. The bulk of his work is at the University of Murcia, although he also works in other Public Sector areas and in Industry.