Events & recordings

Get ready-to-use strategies and realistic speaking activities to confidently prepare your students for every part of the B2 Speaking exam and boost their performance in class.

Understand exactly how the B2 (FCE) Speaking exam is assessed, explore examiner criteria in clear, simple terms, and practise evaluating real student samples to assess speaking more confidently and objectively.

Explore what makes Grade 5s both exciting and challenging to teach as they step into Secondary school. This workshop unpacks their key developmental milestones, how coursebooks support (or miss) their needs, and practical ways teachers can help them bridge the Primary–Secondary gap.

In this session, we’ll look at when and how to bring speaking into your lessons, explore task types for adults, teens, and exam groups, and try out practical ways (including some AI tools!) to extend practice and keep learners talking.

Discover practical techniques to keep your young learners engaged and excited about English. This session will show you how to use games, humor, memory tasks, and even a bit of tech to add sparkle to your lessons and make new vocabulary stick.

Course books can be a teacher’s best friend—or feel like a straightjacket. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to make them truly work for you: from lesson frameworks and planning principles to choosing the right extra materials and deciding when (and if) digital adaptations are worth the effort.

Mixed-ability classes can feel daunting, but they also offer unique opportunities for growth. In this session, we’ll unpack the challenges, share practical strategies to engage every learner, and explore how diversity in the classroom can actually become a powerful teaching advantage.

In this session, we’ll explore curiosity as a powerful teaching tool—what it is, why it matters, and how to spark it. You’ll discover lesson stages and activities that fuel curiosity and get hands-on practice in weaving them into your classroom.

In this practical and inspiring workshop, Jamie Keddie will explore the art of storytelling as a powerful tool for capturing students’ attention and keeping them hooked. You’ll discover three storytelling techniques designed to ignite curiosity, build anticipation, and encourage active participation in the classroom.

In this session, you’ll discover how to make pronunciation an effortless and impactful part of your lessons without sacrificing time for grammar, vocabulary, or skills. Grzegorz Spiewak will show you simple strategies to boost your teenage learners’ speaking confidence through quick, engaging ‘pron’ activities that fit seamlessly into any lesson plan—sounds good?

In this session, we will explore how to identify and address the needs of all learners in inclusive classrooms. Many children’s challenges go undiagnosed or unreported, leaving teachers to recognize and respond. This talk will provide insights and practical strategies to help balance and support diverse learning needs effectively.

This session explores how augmented reality (AR) enhances language education, offering hands-on experiences and practical applications tailored to participants' teaching contexts, empowering educators to integrate AR effectively.

If you are looking for an insight into how AI is impacting language learning or news ideas to try in your lessons, then this is the ideal talk: highly practical, based around tools that offer a free option, simple technologies, impacting a range of areas in the curriculum.

In this practical session, we’ll look at some of the particular challenges of using TBLT with primary and secondary-aged students, examples of tasks which are developmentally appropriate, and how - and when - we can use these tasks to build our learners’ language.

In this workshop, we will look at some of the benefits and challenges of teaching large monolingual classes. We will focus on common problems associated with this context - pedagogical, affective, and management-related, and look at possible solutions.

This session explores aspects of contemporary English pertinent to the ELT classroom and looks at how we can, should we wish to, introduce this into our teaching.

While preparing students for B1 and B2 exams many teachers struggle to improve their students’ writing skills. They teach them how to write texts of different genres, check countless writing pieces, and write comments, but these don’t seem to be effective.

In this workshop, you will get a practical framework for English speaking clubs of all levels as well as a technical first aid kit for teachers.

In the workshop, we will look at what effective teaching (and planning) decisions to make to ensure a well-connected and meaningful task cycle and how to prepare and deliver contextualised instructions having in mind the end result; how to monitor purposefully and help students learn; what is evidence of learning and how monitoring informs feedback; how to provide feedback that feeds both back and forward.

In this workshop, we are going to share practical advice on how to adapt your coursebook for stronger and weaker learners, provide practical tips on classroom management and work organization in a mixed-ability class as well as explain our idea of assessing students in a mixed-ability class.

In this webinar we will talk about main development milestones of your Grade 5s, to what extent the current cousebooks meet their needs and how we, teachers, can help them bridge that learning gap between Primary and Secondary.

We will consider the purposes for writing essays, types of essays, essay requirements and how to modify them according to the students' needs, giving informative and encouraging feedback to the students.

In this workshop, we'll focus on practice stages of language lessons (grammar, vocabulary, functions) and will aim to answer what makes language practice effective, what range of activities could be employed to help students use new language, and how to skillfully manage practice stages.

In this workshop we will share practical tips on how to teach an effective writing lesson to enable the learners to really practice and develop their writing skills.

In this session, we will look at what basically assessment is and its main principles. We will touch upon the major types of assessment - formative and summative and discuss how make them effective tools in the learning process. What is more, we will cover the essential characteristics of tests make them effective tools of measuring your students’ progress.

In this practical session, participants will examine a few case studies of real lessons which didn’t fully meet their aims in order to develop a better understanding of key teaching concepts, and will leave with a framework for self-reflection to help them more accurately look back on their own teaching so that they can grow even more than they already are.

Teachers know too well that writing isn’t something our students look forward to. It often requires lots of hard, tedious work; it is time-consuming. The problem becomes even more challenging if your class consists of rebellious teenagers. We are going to talk about the ways of humanizing the process of teaching writing to teenagers and combining some serious work with the elements of fun.

In this training session we are going to look at common patterns that Ukrainian teachers practice in class, and discuss how effective they are, and whether there are better alternatives to what we are used to experiencing and doing ourselves.

In this practical session, we’re going to be looking at some of the important features of higher level classes, and how to address their needs so that they can reach their full potential.

In this session, participants will explore the art of delayed correction in teaching and learning processes, with a focus on language improvement and building learners' confidence. The workshop will cover principles, preparation, performance techniques, and post-performance strategies to effectively implement delayed correction in the ELT classroom, providing practical ideas to help teachers enhance their understanding and application of this essential aspect of language teaching.

In this session, we will get an overview of different learning strategies that our students can use, see how to present and teach these strategies to learners, and how to encourage learners to integrate these strategies into their studies.

In response to the shift to online teaching, this session equips educators with effective strategies to foster speaking skills in virtual classrooms. Participants will gain insights into impactful speaking tasks and leave with practical activities, empowering them to engage students in meaningful conversations while teaching remotely.