There’s still time to benefit from the early bird registration fee for the next Blended Learning course!
E-lesson takes over
Yesterday, I was in Ostrava in the Czech Republic, running a session on In Company for teachers teaching in company and In Company. Their students work in the automobile indsutry, and hopefully teachers and students will appreciate the latest business English
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to all our readers, and those newly subscribed to the te4be Newsletter. I am looking forward to meeting the many teachers coming to the presentations in Russia next week. Barney and I will BOTH be at IATEFL. There’s small
Power Point – Blended Learning
During a recent presentation (Londosa), I was asked for my Power Point presentation. I am delighted to upload this onto our website. For convenience, it is divided in three parts. Part one – Blended Learning Part two – New technologies
ICT For computers and the Internet
I am just reviewing a new book in the Professional English in Use series: ICT For Computers and the Internet (Esteras and Fabre, CUP) One interesting feature is the use of the web to deliver a bank of exercises referred
Flying Dutchman – Melanie Butler interviews Summertown's Louis Garnade
The latest EL Gazette describes the ‘birth’ of Summertown Publishing. Melanie Butler interviews Louis. Here is one intriguing extract (adapted): It was business English that inspired Garnade ..(to) take up yet another new career: book publishing. It is all Pete Sharma’s
Merry Christmas
We are looking forward to the many exciting new developments on te4be in 2008 – watch this space! In the meantime – have a good break this Christmas. Merry Christmas to everyone! from: Barney and Pete
Real skills in a Virtual World
At last month’s BESIG conference in Berlin, Brendan Wightman spoke about the English 365 InfoQuests from CUP. His presentation slide generously alluded to the ‘excellent author’ – Barney Barrett! To access Brendan’s Power Point presentation, please visit the BESIG website. There are now many
Welcome to our new Blog
Welcome to our new blog. As you can see, it’s got that “under construction look” to it at the moment. We are going to work on it in the next week and having it looking like the previous version. All
Questionnaire on technology from Manchester University and CUP
Just to announce that in a joint project being run out of Manchester University, in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, two surveys are being conducted that look at the uses that technologies are being made of in language classrooms. One