SBS ANNOUNCES WORKSHOPS FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

I. ADVANCED LANGUAGE: 17 May, morning and afternoon

A. IDIOMS, PROVERBS AND SAYINGS, 10:00 to 13:00

We will undertake a comparative approach seeking to find the equivalents for idioms, proverbs and sayings in English and Spanish whenever possible. Our journey will reveal interesting aspects about language.

B. INCREASING YOUR WORD POWER, 14:30 to 17:00

We will focus on a number of ways to designate people according to some of their characteristics, such as a couch potato, a shutterbug, a rubberneck, a stool pigeon, a blowhard or a trooper, to name but a few examples. We will concentrate on words commonly heard in American soap operas and sitcoms, not usually included in advanced language textbooks. This is a revised version of the Folks and their Ways workshop.

You can attend one or both workshops as they are self-contained.

Fees: $35 each - $60 if you are attending both

Venue: SBS PALERMO, Coronel Diaz 1747, Buenos Aires................................................................................................................

II. EXPERIENCING MEDITATION, 23 may, 17:30 to 19:30

If you want to find out what meditation is all about, this introductory workshop will allow you to experience ways of quieten your mind, and will get you started in your journey towards spiritual fulfillment and health benefits.

Admission free but participants are expected to contribute NON PERISHABLE food which will be donated to Caritas.

Venue: SBS PALERMO, Coronel Diaz 1747, Buenos Aires.................................................................................................................

III. RESOURCES FOR THE LANGUAGE TEACHER,24 May, morning and afternoon

A. A FESTIVAL OF GAMES, 10:00 to 13:00 Conducted by Celeste Grimau

Here is an amazing opportunity to become familiar with the work of a talented practitioner in the art of teaching through games, who will share her experience and expertise as she literally rocks your teaching world by engaging you in games for different age groups, different levels, different objectives.

CELESTE will allow you to both experience the games and to reflect on how to go about using them in the classroom. You will leave the workshop with everything you need to put the games into practice when you next meet your students.

B. DEVELOPING READING SKILLS, 14:30 to 17:00

We will analyze the main issues in developing this crucial skill for the acquisition of a foreign language and we will examine the importance of schemata, genre and the need to provide scaffolding for our students to comprehend what they read. We will focus on the role of extensive reading to build the learners’ confidence and their self-esteem as well as to provide for enjoyment.

Fees: $40 for the GAMES workshop - $10 for the READING SKILLS workshop but FREE for those attending the morning session.

Venue: ALIANZA FRANCESA, Billinghurst 1926, Buenos Aires

This session is sponsored by HELBLING LANGUAGES

All of the workshops except A FESTIVAL OF GAMES are presented by Oriel Villagarcia

MARIA CELESTE GRIMAU, is the director of STEPS - Cultural Inglesa de Bariloche - and has been Head of English Department of "Colegio del Sol". She has contributed articles on education to the Buenos Aires Herald an offered a number of workshops in Argentina. She has also written articles and activities for the magazine English Teaching in Action. She is a storyteller and specializes in storytelling as a teaching tool as well as games to teach English. She has developed her own methodology based on the use of games in the classroom.

ORIEL E. VILLAGARCIA, profesor en inglés Magna Cum Laude, Univ. Nac. de Tucumán, British Council and Fulbright Scholar, post graduate studies, University of Texas, M.A., University of Lancaster. He has taught at the Univ. Católica de Salta, Univ. Nac. de Rio Cuarto, and Univ. Nac. de Santiago del Estero. In the past few years he has devoted a large part of his time to the study of mind-body therapies and he is a certified practitioner of massage, Breema, reflexology, and Jin Shin Jyutsu. He is also an Instructor of Esferodinamia Terapéutica.

REGISTRATIONS: Only if you are sure to attend by sending an email to newtoolsforteachers@yahoo.com.ar with your full name, phone number, and postal address. Please indicate which options you have chosen. You can then pay the admission fee before the workshop takes place. You should receive an acknowledgment of PRE-REGISTRATION indicating whether there are still vacancies for the workshop of your choice.

Limited vacancies on a first come, first served basis

TOOLS FOR TEACHERS WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS ITS GRATITUDE TO SBS INTERNATIONAL FOR HELPING TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS AND FOR THE USE OF THEIR PREMISES