An Author talk with Sue Kay in conjunction with Macmillan
and the Southern Regional Teachers' Association at Anglo-Continental,
29-35 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth BH2 6NA
Wednesday 9 June 2010, 18.30 - 20.00 hours

Sue Kay started teaching English in Lyon after an initial training course at International House in London. During her time there she gained an interest in humanistic teaching techniques and the learner centred approach - something which has underpinned her teaching and writing ever since.
After ten years in Lyon she returned to the UK and started work at the Lake School of English in Oxford where she developed and ran refresher courses and workshops for teachers. She started her writing career with the Reward Resource Packs, and since then has been busy writing Inside Out - first the Original edition and more recently the New edition.

Authenticity in ELT. Practical ideas for developing students’ language skills.
In this talk, Sue Kay will talk about the process she goes through when choosing and adapting authentic material for the classroom. She will describe a principled approach to editing authentic texts so that they are accessible and useful as language input, and demonstrate speaking
tasks that encourage learners to talk about things that actually matter to them, rather than playing roles or exchanging invented information. In particular she will focus on texts and activities from the Upper Intermediate level of New Inside Out.


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