Gareth Davies

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Gareth Davies

• Gareth Davies has been working in the TEFL
  industry for 10 years. He has taught in the Czech
  republic, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
• He was awarded the Cambridge RSA DELTA in 2001.
  Gareth has been involved in teacher training
  since 2001 and joined Prague Schools as head of
  TEFL in 2002. Recently Gareth has been involved
  in designing and delivering a training course for
  senior teachers and state school teachers for OUP
  and also delivers in service training at a number
  of schools in Prague.
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• TÉMA
• Homework (assignments that students will enjoy
  doing)
• Students never do their homework. This session
  will look at why they don't do it and suggest
  ways to make students realise how
  important homework is. We will then explore  how
  we as teachers can make homework fun, relevant
  and challenging for the students so that it can
  become an integral part of their language
  learning process.
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Mgr. Lenka Dvoráková

• 1988 1994 Prírodovedecká fakulta Univerzity
  Karlovy, Praha
• 1991 1993 Filozofická fakulta Univerzity
  Karlovy, Praha, pedagogika a psychologie pro
  ucitele
• 1991 2002 samostatná lektorka anglictiny
• 2002 dosud Jazyková kola Sokolov, majitelka a
  reditelka, metodické vedení a kolení lektoru
• TÉMA
• Student jako materiál / Student as a resource
• Have you ever experienced a lesson that just
  happened? A lesson that took off after you
  decided to surrender your
• carefully prepared lesson plan because a really
  good discussion cropped up? And how many times
  did you see your lesson
• fail after you had spent hours preparing it?
  Teaching and learning - should take place in
  the here-and-now. Yet too many
• lessons are being hi-jacked by materials overload
  and the students are buried under a weight of
  coursebooks, exercise
• books, photocopies and board games you name it.
  However, the coursebook author has never met your
  students, doesnt
• know their interests, beliefs and desires.
  Teaching should be driven by the content that is
  provided by the people in the
• room, it should centre on the local and relevant
  concerns.
• There are many arguments in favour of
  coursebooks. Without it, you may feel naked.
  Abandoned. Vulnerable. This
• workshop will give you not only the courage, but
  also the confidence to leave the books closed -
  for a few minutes, for a
• lesson, for the whole course. We will explore
  avenues for exploitation of the learning
  opportunities that arise naturally in the
• course of the lesson and look into ways to
  facilitate learning as it unfolds in front of
  your eyes.

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• James Gault
• James Gault started teaching English in The
  Czech Republic in 1997 after a long career in
  business in the UK. Since then he has been a
  teacher of English, Business English and Business
  Skills, a course developer, a teacher
  trainer and an author, and has given
  presentations at many conferences all over the
  Czech Republic and in Hungary. His particular
  interest is teaching communication skills in
  English and he is the author of New Headway
  Talking Points published by OUP.
• TÉMA
• Dynamics in the classroom (how to conduct group
  activities)
• There is something wonderful and satisfying in
  seeing a classroom full of students work
  successfully in groups. The students are
  learning, they are enjoying themselves and they
  are having a memorable experience that will
  really support their learning process. In this
  workshop session, you will learn and practise
  proven techniques for planning, setting up and
  carrying through group activities where your
  students will really learn and have fun at the
  same time.
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Mgr. Lenka Literová

• 1997 - 2003 Univerzita Hradec Králové,
  pedagogická fakulta, Aj a Nj pro 2.stupen Z
• 2000 - Konferencní agentura Praha lektor
  veobecné a obchodní Aj
• 2005 - NIDV lektor v programech JARO, JAME,
  MEJA, hlavní lektor stredoceského kraje pro
  projekt Jazyky Hrou, organizování metodických
  semináru pro ucitele Aj
• 2006 - Clenka AMATE
• TÉMA
• Petiminutové aktivity / Five - minute activities
• A database of warmers and fillers is an absolute
  necessity for each teacher of a foreign language.
  In this seminar you will obtain ideas how to use
  or even create your own 5-minute activities to
  make your lessons with adult students more
  interesting and fun.
• Gramatika / Grammar
• Teachers usually know the grammar of a foreign
  language well. Although we are able to explain
  the grammar, it is mostly not the most exciting
  part of our lesson. In this seminar, we will try
  to present different grammar aspects in various
  ways that will make our students enjoy learning
  it.

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Mgr. Ondrej Matuka

• 1990 1996 FF MU Brno, obor anglický jazyk a
  literatura
• 1994 1998 ucitel Státní jazykové koly v Brne
• 1997 1998 vedoucí anglické sekce Státní
  jazykové koly v Brne
• 1996 1998 autor Státní základní jazykové
  zkouky z anglictiny
• 1999 zástupce anglického nakladatelství
  Macmillan Education
• TÉMA
• Smysluplné aktivity k rozvoji ucení / Meaningful
  speaking activities
• I dont know what to say is the usual way
  students react to speaking exercises.Properly
  designed activities help to
• avoid such situations.The talk will explain
  simple principles which an activity should adhere
  to so that students feel a
• strong need to express themselves the key
  motivating element.
• These principles can be transferred onto teaching
  grammar as well as vocabulary. Practical examples
  are taken from
• Inside Out, a new coursebook for young adults and
  adults.

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Mgr. Hana Musílková

• 1994-1995 The British Intl School of
  Prague Ucitelka
• 1998-2002 Gymnázium Na Zatlance Ucitelka
  anglictiny
• 2002-2003 Progress Language Institute Metodicka,
  Koordinátor kurzu
• 2003-2004 LCS Intl a.s. Koordinátor mez.
  vztahu
• 2004- Gymnázium Na Zatlance Ucitelka anglictiny
• 2004- Oxford University Press Lektor kolitel
• TÉMA
• LAUGHING MATTERS
• Humour as such is unteachable. If we try to
  explain a joke, it usualy goes stale. What we can
• teach is the language of humour. After all, most
  humorous stuff is deeply embedded in language.
• We can use the language to make humour accessible
  for students and, conversely, use humour to
• make the language accessible. In my opinion,
  humour is on of the best vehicles for language
• teaching and its motivational value cannot be
  overestimated!
• But lets not forget that only happy teachers can
  make happy students! Games make all of us
• laugh. We all like to laugh. If we find something
  funny, it is often memorable as it strikes a

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Naomi Moir

• Naomi Moir has been working in EFL for the past
  10 years. Currently she is working as a freelance
  
• teacher trainer, predominately in the Czech
  Republic but also around Europe and further
  afield.
• Naomi has run training courses, training days and
  presented at conferences on a variety of areas
• connected with teaching English to younger
  learners and adults.
• TÉMA
• Teaching Notorious Beginners
• Whats special about teaching beginners? What are
  their particular needs? Why are they notorious?
• Do beginners in English actually exist at all?
  These questions and more will be addressed in
  this
• session, along with practical ideas for use in
  the classroom.
• Alternative Methods in the Teaching of Foreign
  Languages
• Many students have been learning for a long time,
  they probably feel like theyve seen/heard all
  the
• techniques/ideas etc before. Maybe you are
  feeling like youve run out of ideas. Or maybe
  you just
• want to try something new, to experiment a
  little. Whats out there to liven/brighten your
  teaching?
• This session will take a look at some new and not
  so new (but maybe forgotten) ways to add

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Mgr. Jana Spácilová

• Vystudovala anglický jazyk a literaturu na FF MU
  v Brne, 3 roky pracovala jako ucitelka AJ na
  základní a strední kole. Dva roky pusobila jako
  lektorka na soukromé jazykové kole a tri roky
  jako koordinátorka bakalárských programu na
  soukromé vysoké kole University of New York in
  Prague. Od roku 2004 pracuje jako zástupce
  nakladatelství Oxford University Press v Praze.
• TÉMA
• Exploiting Pop Songs in Class
• This session will give teachers some easy-to-use
  ways of exploiting pop songs in the classroom,
  especially for listening comprehension. It will
  focus mainly on choosing and writing the best
  task for a particular song and will suggest
  several alternatives to the (much used) gap fill.

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Mgr. Olga Stanková

• od 1996 - manaer Cambridge University Press pro
  CR a Slovensko
• vystudovala pedagogickou fakultu
• pracovala jako prekladatelka z anglictiny,
  francouztiny a rutiny
• vyucovala cizí jazyky na Z a S v Ceské
  republice a v zahranicí
• TÉMA
• Komunikativní prístup / Communicative approach -
  Time to meet "face2face
• How can we help students acquire the core
  language, skills and strategies they need to
  communicate successfully in today's
• Busy world? How can we help them build confidence
  to achieve the competencies they need?Face2face,
  the major new general English
• course for young adults and adults from Cambridge
  University Press, prepares students for real
  world communication by placing a strong
• emphasis on listening and speaking skills, while
  maintaining the important balance of grammar and
  vocabulary. Informed by the
• Cambridge Corpora and compatible with the Common
  European Framework of References for Languages,
  the course includes fully-
• interactive language summaries and each student's
  book comes with a free state-of-the-art CD-ROM. 
• The talk will highlight the key pedagogical
  principles underlying the course and include a
  demonstration of the CD-ROM to show you how
• face2face is up2date and easy2teach and will help
  your students learn2listen and give them
  confidence2speak
• The presentation will be based on practical
  demonstrations of games that you can use in your
  classes. Each teacher attending
• this presentation will also get a workbook
  including examples of games, together with
  instructions how to play them, and

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Lucie Trávnicková

• 2007 doposud Agentura Tailored English
  Courses, s.r.o. Senior Teacher, Teacher Trainer
• 2004 2007 Pearson Longman Senior Teacher
  Representative
• 1998 2004 Caledonian School Senior Teacher
• 1993-1996 Pedagogická Fakulta, ZCU Plzen
  ucitelství anglictiny
• TÉMA
• Using Internet in foreign language class
• What is the Internet?
• source of materials lets dig together in the
  well of resources
• path of communication we will search in the
  different ways we or/and our students can use
  English in reality
• We are going to explore the treasure the Internet
  is for us teachers and try our the materials in
  the seminar as we will have the access to the
  Internet.
• The outcome will be materials and tips that will
  be ready for you to take straight into your
  lessons.

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Mgr. Nadeda Vojtková

• vystudovala Filosofickou fakultu Masarykovy
  university v Brne
• pracovala jako ucitelka anglického jazyka na
  základní, strední a vysoké kole
• je lektorkou dalího vzdelávání ucitelu
  anglictiny, absolvovala kurzy Britské rady
• v soucasné dobe vyucuje metodiku anglictiny na
  PdF MU
• je clenkou AMATE (Asociace metodiku), IATEFL a
  MSSUA
• TÉMA
• Hodina bez prípravy / Lessons from Nothing
• Have you ever experienced the following
  surprises? You have just arrived from a holiday
  and learned that your colleague has fallen ill
  and
• you have to substitute in his class. You only
  know that this is an intermediate group and you
  can find out which coursebook they use,
• however, you do not have time for the lesson
  preparation. Your regular room where you have a
  tape recorder, flipchart and desks is
• occupied today and you have to teach in a room
  where there is sofa and a few armchairs but no
  other equipment.
• You spend hours preparing cards and slips of
  paper with sentences but whenever you want to use
  them, you find out that half of them are
• missing. Whoops! You have covered everything that
  was on your lesson plan and you still have ten
  minutes to go. I do not intend to
• discourage teachers from planning their lessons
  but I would like to provide some ideas how to
  cope with the unexpected surprises.The
• workshop will offer a set of activities which
  require minimum or no preparation for the
  sessions. We will consider the following
  situations
• a teacher has to substitute in his or her
  colleagues group

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Shaun Wilden

• Shaun Wilden has been involved in English
  language teaching for 16 years, teaching
  predominately
• in Greece and the Czech Republic. Amongst other
  things for the last six years, he has worked as a
  
• teacher trainer on Cambridge CELTA, ICELT and
  DELTA courses as well as tutoring courses in
• teaching 1-2-1 English and Young Learners both
  face-to-face and online. Since going freelance in
  
• 2006 he also has co-written and delivered
  methodology courses for Oxford University Press
  and
• presented at conferences throughout Europe.
• TÉMA
• Learning to listen (activities developing
  listening skills)
• This workshop looks at listening skills and the
  sub skills that are used by listeners. After
  identifying these subskills, the
• workshop will go on to explore the problems
  students have with listening in English and look
  at ways for the teacher to
• best exploit coursebook listenings. The workshop
  will also look at ways of extending coursebook
  listening to give the
• students further practice. Finally the workshop
  will address authentic and live listenings
  showing how they can be used,
• how to set them up and how to make them effective
  for the students.