Since 2015 I worked in teacher training and development through my roles as ADoS, DoS and Centre Manager, in addition to working as a freelance teacher trainer. I am available for in-house workshops, training days, and conferences and seminars – both with existing workshops and with new material. Please contact me directly at ben.teach@outlook.com if you are interested.
My presentations
Developing Listening Skills at B1 (and beyond)
Session overview
This practical workshop is based on from my action research project for 2023, and explores reasons why coursebook listening exercises might not provide the skills development our learners need, and offers participants with several effective and alternative activities to use with any listening text.
Practical tips and tricks for building your pronunciation toolkit.
Session overview
Why every teacher can become an expert in teaching pronunciation, how to integrate it in class, and why it is an integral part of developing our learners’ listening skills. Part of the Gallery Teachers Masterclass series.
A Pronunciation Toolkit
Session overview
Cambridge examiners break pronunciation down into three areas: stress, intonation, and individual sounds. What if teachers did the same? This workshop explores some highly practical and super fun activities I use with my learners to demystify pronunciation and make it something achievable.
Developing Reading Skills at B1
Session overview
This practical workshop reviews top-down and bottom-up processes in reading, how we use these when we want to create meaning from a text, and how as teachers we need to be working on developing these processes with our learners. Teachers leave with 10 effective activities they can use with any text.
Writing in the exam: recipes for success
Session overview
This presentation grew out of on an ongoing materials development project at ELA to provide learners with an effective and motivating framework for developing writing skills for the exam. These materials are available in the exam writing guide.
Sounding Right: Learning and Teaching Pronunciation
Session overview
This talk spawned out of years of attending pronunciation sessions at conferences which never told me if I was doing the right thing or not. A light and informative workshop that introduces teachers to the essentials of pronunciation teaching and encourages them to start using it with their learners.