It was a great night, from the red carpet treatment meted out by Luke Meddings welcoming us to our final spilling out into the hot London night…….proceedings started by Michael Carrier, then risque humour from the compare without compere, Scott
New Macmillan business English blog post: the Rich List
Every time the Rich List comes out, I frantically scurry around it’s lurid pages, looking for WHO is the richest actor…..musician…..footballer…. What is fascinating is how, even though we may disapprove of the way the rich get richer, we want
Macmillan Teacher’s Day – University of Barcelona
What a venue! It was a good idea to arrive early just to soak up the plenary room, rarely opened, I believe. All that history, a fitting place to signal the move into Teaching in the 21st Century and the
Izmir, Turkey
I thoroughly enjoyed my trip to Izmir, Turkey last weekend. Hard eating choices – meat or fish? Luckily (like Blended Learning) I managed the best of both worlds. Thanks to everyone for coming to my talk – here are the
Business Spotlight Launches New International Edition
It’s always good to report a new event in the publishing world. Of particular interest to those teaching business English was the launch, on April 11th, of Business Spotlight International. Edited by Ian McMaster, Business Spotlight has been well known
Business EnglishUK April 26th
An excellent conference at International House London on Saturday, as Business EnglishUKorganised their trainers’ day. The weather was appalling, which made being at the conference even more attractive! The opening plenary by Evan Frendo dealt with specificity and the complexities of teaching
PSA Symposia in Madrid and Barcelona: two highly successful events
Once again, the British Embassy, Madrid played host to this, the second PSA symposium on digital technologies. This year, we ran a second symposium in Barcelona. Thought-provoking and inspiring, both events were successful. Pete Sharma began the morning, backgrounding the
New In-company blog post on tax
Only three things in life are certain. Death, TAXES and the fact that Barca will not be in the 2012 Champions League final The UK government has recently (and anonymously) investigated the tax returns of a number of wealthy individuals.
Enhancing Presentations with Technology – new Linguarama blog post
Many Business English language learners need to give presentations for work and professional puprposes. This blog post looks at some of the techniques and technologies they can use. For the rest of this post, please visit: Linguarama blog
Forget the iPad and the Whiteboard – here come Google’s goggles…
Just bought a £2000 interactive whiteboard? Or spent £500 on the next generation iPad? Dude, like, what a waste of your hard-earned cash. Whiteboards, as we all know, are so last century. What you should be doing is popping down