Reunión de Camaradería
ACPI, Advice Bookshop, Helbling Languages and Tecnología Educativa invite you to the End-of-the-year Get Together

The Effect of BEER on teaching:
Something's brewing in the English Class
November 13, 2009 - 18:30hs.
NH Urbano, Salón Cohiue
Marcelo T. de Alvear 363

Special invitation for
ACPI Members in due stand,
Coordinators, Directors, Heads of Bilingual Schools, Language Schools or Institutes,

The effect of BEER on TEACHING: Something’s brewing in the English class

I believe that we, teachers, should always surprise our students with creative ideas that, turned into meaningful activities, will help them learn the language they want to learn at the time they need to use it. Activating prior knowledge is essential to meet the relevance and meaningfulness they are looking for when learning English. So, many are the tasks we have as teachers to cater for our students’ needs, and I would like to share some ideas about engaging students, brainstorming, helping them make connections, using the surprise factor to make them react and find the need to voice their feelings, grading authentic material for all levels of English and some more tips that will enhance our teaching practices and their learning experience. Here’s to you, to our students and to teaching!!! Cheers!!!

Gustavo González - Biodata

Gustavo González is a graduate teacher from I.S.F.D. N° 5 in Pergamino. He moved to Buenos Aires seven years ago and has been teaching English in companies since then. He
has been in the ELT field since 1993, working as a teacher, school coordinator, and teacher trainer. Essentially, he sees teaching as sharing; that is why he has devoted himself to teacher training more deeply than ever in the last years. He has been delivering seminars and workshops all over Argentina and neighboring countries, sharing ideas about Methodology, American English, the use of songs, movies and internet material in the classroom, how to develop critical thinking skills, how to make our lessons memorable,
how to deal with Business English through humor, songs and films and how to exploit sit-coms for educational purposes. He is one of the contributors to the book “Imagination, Cognition & Language Acquisition: A Unified Approach to Theory and Practice”, published by the New Jersey City
University. He is a teacher trainer for the Oxford Teachers’ Academy. He is the current vice president of APIBA (Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Buenos Aires) and vice president of FAAPI (Federación Argentina de Asociaciones de Profesores de Inglés).

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