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Issue -August 2008
In this Issue From the editor: Important Visitors will come to Chile and Argentina Hilderstone College Concorde International Free Quizzes
From the Editor Hi, colleagues! I'm very excited because we'll have some interesting visitors soon. Steve Hirschhorn, principal of EckersleyOxford,will be teaching and getting together with teachers in Chile and Argentina at the beginning of September, and James Banner, marketing Director of Hilderstoe College is also visiting us soon. Steve already has a busy schedule but if you want him to visit your school or University please contact me ASAP. Happy Teaching! Monica, editor
Hilderstone College We have some excellent news: Hilderstone College now has wireless internet access throughout the college, for the exclusive use of Hilderstone students. Current students are already taking the opportunity to surf the internet, send emails and complete homework on their laptops, and are enjoying being able to do this with a coffee in the Common Room or while sitting in our sunny garden. We would like to encourage all future students to bring their laptops with a wireless card and make use of this new facility! So if you're planning to attend a course at Hilderstone College next January, don't forget to take your laptop with you. For more infor about the courses go to Hilderstone College
Concorde Inernational: Work Experience Programme The Internship (work experience) programme is quite simple: an intensive language course bringing a candidate up to 5.5 IELTS followed by a 3-6 month internship in a British company. We ask the candidate for 3 preferences of the area of work; we do most areas except banking, corporate law, and medicine. Once we have the 3 preferences the Work Experience Officer will start a search and submit the candidate’s CV to up to 15 companies. We prepare the candidate for interview and we monitor the placement in each week. The internships are not generally paid, in the UK this is seen as a training programme, the company offers a supervisor, a desk, phone, computer and their time for free. However some companies do offer the trainee either lunch expenses or travelling expenses, but only if the trainee is going to be there for more than 4- 6 months. Pilgrims trainers are experienced and dedicated professionals. They are committed to making your training successful and, of course, fun. Many trainers have worked in industry and business, offering knowledge from many different fields.
Featured Article An Interview with Steve Hirschhorn Steve Hirschhorn has been teaching and training teachers for nearly 30 years. Before coming to Eckersley in January 07, Steve was the Head of the Language Teaching and Training Unit at St Mary’s College, University of Surrey and a Senior Lecturer on the St Mary’s MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT. He has taught and trained all over the world and in the last 12 months has lectured or trained teachers in China, Jordan, Peru, Germany, Japan and Holland. His main academic interest lies in the history of the development of English Language Teaching in the 20th century. So it's great he wants to share his experience as a teacher with us
Resources for Teachers Here's a great site where you'll find lots of quizzes ready to use. Quizzes for beginners, intermediate and advanced students
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