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About the course
Recorded course. These are not live sessions: after payment, you get recordings of 4 webinars, the course materials, and a final test, and you study whenever it suits you, at your own pace. Access lasts 2 months from the date of payment.
If you want to help your students succeed in English, this course was made for you. You'll learn modern, effective methods for developing students' language skills.
You'll get ready-made solutions for running engaging, modern lessons, learn how to involve students in writing activities that bring out their creativity, explore more than 30 ways to use a text in class, discover different strategies for developing reading and listening skills, and find plenty of other useful, practical information.
Inspire your students to be productive and creative! That's exactly what the Upgrading students' skills course is for!
Who This Course Is For
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New TeachersEnglish teachers who have recently started teaching and are looking for solid foundational knowledge
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Experienced Teachersanyone with plenty of experience teaching English who knows how important it is to stay up to date and wants to refresh the fundamentals
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All Teachersand for you too, if you're looking for personal growth ;)
What You Get in the Course
13 Hours of Training
8 hours of recorded webinars + 4 hours of work on the platform + 1 hour for the final test
Certificate
13 hours, upon successful completion of the course
Personal Participant Account
With all webinar recordings and course materials. Access lasts 2 months from the date of payment.
Final Interactive Test
Score 80% or higher to get your certificate
Program and Schedule
1
Pre-Course Meeting (Recording)
A recording of the kickoff meeting: how the course works and how to complete it at your own pace.
2
Successful productive activities
- Overview of speaking and writing lessons: aims, sub-aims, structure, and activities
- Fluency vs accuracy
- Staging productive activities
- Effective speaking tasks that encourage active speaking and improve fluency
- Engaging writing activities that enhance creativity
3
Developing reading and listening: 30+ ways of exploiting texts
- Understanding the purposes behind reading and listening materials
- Real-life reading and listening strategies
- Hands-on pre-, while-, and post-listening/reading activities to develop sub-skills (of reading and listening)
- Other creative methods of using texts effectively in teaching
4
Teaching pronunciation
- The key aspects of phonology (including sounds, stress, intonation, rhythm, and connected speech)
- Incorporating teaching pronunciation into lessons: how to integrate pronunciation practice into regular lessons and how to plan and design focused pronunciation lessons
- Teaching techniques: various drilling techniques and activities to help students develop pronunciation
5
Integrating skills in language teaching
- Understanding how language skills are interconnected and enhance each other
- Real-life language use and meaningful contexts
- Integrated approach and its benefits: strategies to integrate skills in lessons and promote student engagement and proficiency across all language skills
Course Trainers
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Dariia Herasymova
Senior teacher and methodologist at the Green Country English School network and TalkEn.Cloud
Certificates: TKT
Over 6 years of teaching experience. Author of the Green Country school network's Speaking Course textbooks
Nastia Tychuk
Senior teacher and methodologist at the Green Country English School network and TalkEn.Cloud
Certificates: TKT
Over 6 years of teaching experience. Co-author of the My Flexi Book English textbooks for adults and editor of the TalkEn.Cloud platform
Course Trainers
Certificates: TKT
Over 6 years of teaching experience. Author of the Green Country school network's Speaking Course textbooks
Dariia Herasymova
Senior teacher and methodologist at the Green Country English School network and TalkEn.Cloud
Certificates: TKT
Over 6 years of teaching experience. Co-author of the My Flexi Book English textbooks for adults and editor of the TalkEn.Cloud platform
Nastia Tychuk
Senior teacher and methodologist at the Green Country English School network and TalkEn.Cloud
How the Training Works
1
Access to Course Materials
Access to your personal account, webinar recordings, course materials, and the final test is valid for 2 months from the date of payment.
2
Personal Account
After payment, you get access to your personal account, where you will find recordings of all the webinars, the course materials, and the final test.
3
Recorded Webinars
4 recorded webinars with the course trainers. These are not live sessions: watch whenever it suits you, at your own pace, and as many times as you like.
4
Final Test and Certificate
When you finish the course, an interactive final test is waiting for you. Score 80% or higher to receive your course completion certificate