TODAY: Five ways to use speed dating to improve speaking | Online Seminar for English Teachers

Five ways to use speed dating to improve speaking Online Seminar for English Language Teachers Hello everyone! Get ready TODAY for the online seminar "Five ways to use speed dating to improve speaking"hosted by the Regional English Language Office at the US Embassy. Our lecturer is Ta Hintze, English Language Fellow for the US Department of State. If you didn't register yet, this is your chance!    Five ways to use speed dating to improve speaking TODAY Thursday, January 28, 2016  3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Peru time) Register now! After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webinar. How to connect? You can access from any computer connected to the Internet and watch it live. When the webinar begins, connect to audio using your computer's microphone and speakers (VoIP). A headset is recommended. View System Requirements Five ways to use speed dating to improve speaking This webinar will discuss different ways to use speed dating (the traditional 3-2-1 exercise) in your class to focus on different speaking tasks: ice breakers/simply getting students to talk, improving fluency, practicing specific grammar or vocabulary, practicing presentations, or discussing a reading or homework. The goal is to teach your students one activity that you can then vary to elicit different skills and also, to provide them with more student-centered, yet guided talk time.    About Ta Ta Hintze is an ESL/EFL professor and teacher trainer. She holds a Master's degree in TESOL and a Master's degree in Teaching Social Studies, grades 7-12. She has 15 years of teaching experience in the USA, Syria and currently in Mexico as an English Language Fellow, a program sponsored by the United States Department of State. Although she is primarily a university academic English language teacher, she is very interested in using service learning projects to create opportunities for more relevant English language teaching and learning, and to increase collaboration among teachers of different departments. Ta speaks Spanish, German and French, she reads a great deal of history and science fiction, and she is from New York.