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But the fi eld for the 2019 ELTon awards is full of unfamiliar faces

he judges for this year’s British Council ELT Innovation Also galloping towards a bookshelf
We’re proud to be Award have eschewed the standard general English course near you are the shortlisted titles in
in favour of Palestinian playwriting, a Portuguese TV Teachers’ Resource Category, with
recognised & nominated Tpersonality, and ‘simulated native speakers’. Results will be Teaching and Developing Reading Skills
as a finalist for our released later in June. (Cambridge University Press), Teacher
Employability is coming up on the inside in the Course Innovation Development over Time (Routledge)
FUTURE SUCCESS Course category. The Open University is nominated for its online course and Understanding Teenagers in the
Communication Skills for Business and Management and Capital School, ELT Classroom (Pavilion ELT). The
Bournemouth has made it in for its project-based Future Success. indefatigable Richard Cauldwell from
This unique adult course features business skills workshops and Speech in Action is coming up on the
collaborative working, culminating in the student team fulfilling a inside with a new book: A Syllabus for
real-life brief set by a local business. Listening-decoding. to access curriculum-based lessons on a phone, laptop or tablet. While
Also featured are a task-based course for workplace English in
Two new on-line professional development courses complete the
Developing students fullpotential Widgets Inc from Atama-I, and task-based general English in On Task starting line-up: Teaching English Online produced by Cambridge Laureate’s English Simulations promises ‘realistic conversations with
simulated speakers.’
from Abax. Assessment English and the delightfully named The Ultimate Guide BBC Learning English sticks to video with its second ELTons runner,
Taking the lead for young learners in this category is the to Teaching English as a Lingua Franca for ELT Professionals from TEFL Undercover English.
five-level primary course Compass from Richmond Publishing, Equity Advocates & Academy. The runners and riders for this year’s ELTons may be a mix of
a US-style English Language Arts course which mixes life’s big Finally, the Digital Technology category has a heavy focus on familiar entrants and newcomers, but as we enter the final straight,
questions and gorgeous visuals with vocabulary, grammar and personalised learning. There are two offerings for mobile phones: who will go the distance?
phonics. EF’s Immersion Challenge and Go Correct from Big Languages. EAL Find out who the winners are by watching the ELTons Innovations
For CLIL courses for secondary schools, however, we need to go children from over 30 language communities can use Flash Academy Awards ceremony live online on Monday 10 June.
capitalschool.co.uk to the Local Innovation category. Cambridge Science and Cambridge
Social Science from Cambridge University Press were developed for
the Madrid Bilingual Project.
Representing the Arts is The Hands Up Project playwriting
competition for Palestinian schoolchildren.
Local teaching materials also feature prominently in this category:
the Teach for Change Nigeria website offers step-by-step guides for
teachers of language and literature; there are also resources for ESOL
teachers working in UK prisons from the Bell Trust and De Montfort
University, and a 12-week course, ESOL Stepping Stones, from LuCiD,
designed to be delivered by children’s centre staff to new mothers and Choose your Super Hero!
their babies.
This year’s most intriguing field, however, is probably to be found
in the shortlist for the Innovation in Learner Resources, which Experience the joy of reading
features everything from the series of sixty-second videos English in with our Marvel Readers,
a Minute, from Elton stalwarts BBC Learning English, to Falar (inglês) carefully written and graded to thrill
é Fácil written by Portuguese TV personality Cristina Ferreira, with and motivate learners of English!
help from the English Exam Centre and Cambridge Assessment
English.
Digital Learning Associates started out with an apparently
impossible aim to find authentic video materials which can work with
learners at different language levels. The end result, Ready to Run, is
a selection of original authentic videos in a range of styles suitable
for students from A2 and upward. With full transcripts and teachers
notes, this could well become a firm favourite.
Graded readers also lead the field in this category, but from two
very different stables.
First is a series of titles based on Hollywood blockbusters from one
of ELT’s major publishers: the Marvel series from Pearson English
Readers are full of stills from the movies and dramatic graphics,
together with an audio CD. All bound to make them a hit with fans
of the world-famous film franchise.
Those who like their plots more mysterious should try Stories
Readers are available are availableare available
Without End by Taylor Sapp. Published by small independent US Readers Teacher resources
for purchase as:
publisher, Alphabet, all 24 stories – designed to be read by students Print Book are available to download from:
from lower intermediate to advanced levels – end on a cliff hanger. Print Book with Audio CD readers.english.com
The students’ challenge is to provide the ending, in a reader series © 2019 MARVEL
designed to promote writing skills.
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