Sunday, June 21, 2009

English Teachers' Forum - June 27th, 2009

The British Council, Tripoli will host parallel workshops for June's English Teachers' Forum

Topic: Identify pronunciation problems learners have and using appropriate techniques and activities to help learners develop their pronunciation.

  • A workshop by Shaheena Bakhshov will focus on: Contractions, schwa, weak and strong sounds, phonemic chart, stress, rhythm, intonation, pitch.
  • Daniel Johnston's workshop will focus on providing teachers with classroom ideas and activities to help Libyan students with problematic sounds such as:
Consonants, e.g. /p/ and /b/
Consonant clusters, e.g. ‘spr’

Date: Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Time: 10am to 12pm

Venue: British Council, Seyaheya, Tripoli