APRIL, 26-27

BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
DRAMA PRESENTATION TEACHING LEXICALLY

Paul Harvey has been a teacher of English for 36 Andrew Walkley is a teacher, trainer and writer with
years – for most of that time, in the Middle East and over 25 years in English Language Teaching. He has
North Africa. He has taught in government schools in delivered training in 30 countries round the world and
Sudan and Saudi Arabia and was director of a is currently based in UK. With his colleague Hugh Dellar
summer school in Oxford for ten years. He has been a he has written a large number of course books:
teacher trainer since 1994 in public and private Outcomes, Perspectives and Innovations (National
education and has run workshops for teachers and Geographic Learning) and is currently writing for
students across North Africa, the UK, The Middle East Pearson. Andrew and Hugh have also written the
and Turkey. He has spoken at numerous conferences methodology book Teaching Lexically in the award
in the same area. His first book (for teens) was winning Delta teacher development series.
published by Oxford University Press in 2015. His
special interest is in the uses of drama in ELT. He is
based in Morocco, where he has lived for twelve
years, and teaches at the British Council. He is a
CELTA tutor and local tutor for the Cambridge DELTA
course
If introduced sensitively, drama in the EFL classroom can
This workshop will introduce you to the ideas behind
be an enjoyable activity which can liberate the
lexical approaches to teaching. I’ll show you how you
imagination, develop linguistic creativity and bring a
group closer together. Drama activities not only make can apply these ideas day-to-day in your classrooms to
language come to life, there are also a way of practicing develop your students’ English better and improve
pronunciation, developing intonation and rhythm and a their language skills – particularly speaking. Teaching
way of learning new language. In this session, I would like lexically will make you think about your practice,
us to participate in a few activities which, I think, show provide you with lots of practical activities and
the extent of the uses of drama in ELT. I would like it to be techniques and, I hope, bring a fresh, motivating
a practical session, but I promise I won´t ask anyone to do approach to your classroom
anything they don´t feel comfortable doing!
At the end of the seminar all the participants will be awarded with international certificates
Registration: Due to the limited availability of seats, early registration is strongly recommended to ensure your
participation. Only a limited number of selected candidates will be accepted to the event.

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