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INTERNATIONAL
PUBLISHERS' EXHIBITION AT DIVANI CARAVEL APRIL 1 & 2. .
Do not
miss this event where you can find out about new publications, ask
for specimen copies, meet people and network and, of course, listen
to some talks. Marisa Constantinides is giving a talk on Saturday 10
a.m. on Teaching Mixed Ability Classes Without Tears. Come ye, come
all!
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TESOL GREECE
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON MARCH 18-19.
Please visit the
TESOL Greece
website to check out the programme of talks.
Current CELT Athens trainees are entitled to a 50% of the
annual membership fee (30 EUR instead of 60) upon display of a
current student card.
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November 2005
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Marisa Constantinides presented a
paper on Creating Creative Teachers at the 3rd Annual Conference of QLS School Members,
sponsored by Burlington Press, which was held in Kammena Vourla and
attended my all QLS centres and their teachers from Greece,
Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Poland. |
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3 & 4 September 2005 Marisa Constantinides
gave a talk on choosing
coursebooks. The title was
CHANGING YOUR COURSEBOOK – GATHERING INTELLIGENCE, MAKING A CHOICE.
Those of you who were there but could not get a copy of
the evaluation checklist which was given as a handout, click
here to download it into your PC. |
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September 2005 If you
live in Northern Greece, don't miss the
1st Annual
"ANTI-CONFERENCE" on
"Teaching English for NO Specific Purposes".
Click on the link to see featured
speakers and talks. |
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August
2005
The results of the ASEP
examinations for Eglish Language Teachers have now come out and CELT
Athens trainees had an outstanding success rate. 68% of our trainees
WERE APPOINTED! Congratulations to those who made it first time
around! We were especially pleased and proud to read the grades ALL
CELT candidates received in the METHODOLOGY Section (85% received
grades ABOVE pass and most ABOVE 80%). |
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 August
2005 CELT Athens will be closed from August 5th to
the 28th. We reopen on Monday the 29th of August. All trainees
wishing to collect Certificates and marked work or to submit their
Projects for the summer courses, please come in during that week. If
you need to contact CELT for information, please use our regular
email (info@celt.com.gr ) and
we will be in touch from wherever we are!!!! |
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July
2005 Just finished our July course and closing down
the centre for about three weeks. If you need to get in touch,
please do so via email - this is the best way to apply, to send in
messages, to have assignments marked, etc..... CELT will be open
again on August 29 and we hope to see you all at the INTERNATIONAL
PUBLISHERS' EXHIBITION at the Divani Caravel Hotel on the weekend of
September 3 and 4. Marisa Constantinides will be presenting a talk
on the topic of Coursebook selection on SUNDAY September 4 at
18:00.... the very last talk!!!!!!!!!!! Be there if you are worried
about choosing coursebooks. |
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June
2005 Both
CTEFL courses are over and what fun they were! Not just that though
- all the ladies worked extra double hard to get their results. See
some of them dressed up during a rather riotous
Teaching Practice which was enjoyed
by all, teachers and students alike! Registrations have started for the summer
intensive courses - especially for our summer Certificate
in TEFL course option, always a
very popular course both for Greek as well as native speaker
trainees from UK, the US and other English speaking countries. |
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April
2005 For those who attended Marisa Constantinides'
talk on TECHNOLOGY - WITH OR WITHOUT? and have not yet received a
copy of their handouts, please click
here
to download. For certificates of attendance, please visit the centre
or send us a self-addressed envelope with postage prepaid. |
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April
2005 More good results for our Diploma in
Translation candidates who took the Institute of Linguists
Examinations in January 2005. Congratulations to English to Greek
candidates Maria Akritidou (with Merit in Paper 1), Joanna
Ladovrechi (Merit in Paper 1) and Michalis Bertsas. Congratulations
also to Maria Nicholas, Greek to English candidate from New York who
managed to get Merit in ALL THREE papers!!!!! |
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 April
2005 Well he won didn't he? This one's about Andrew
James Constantinides winning third prize in Fame Story III. If you wish to find out more about him, go to his
own website where you can download some more of his recordings at
http://www.antreas.com/ |
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March 2005 Results for the DELTA
Candidates who sat for their examinations in December 2004 are also
out! Congratulations to Nancy Stenson (with Distinction in the
Coursework), Stavroula Haritou, and Chryssanthe Dimitraki. |
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February 3 2005 New courses beginning almost immediately!
A new DELTA course to begin on the 5th. Trainees on this course will
be sitting the December 2005 examination session and meet once a
week - every Friday. Next week two CTEFL courses to begin on the 8th
(weekday - twice a week) and the 12th (Saturday option - once a
week). If interested in any of these courses or options, you have to
move now! |
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 January
23 2005 By demand of many trainees who heard Andrew's CD
recordings from the time he was taking classes at Fame Studio, here
is one song,
I'm Walking
Away (my favourite) in zip format. Click on title to
download and play. Many of them have tried to sweeten me up in order
to meet him and this has given me extra leverage to get assignments
in on time, extra quality in teaching, etc. etc........ |
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October
31
2004
Marisa Constantinides presenting a paper on Creativitiy in the
Service of Quality Teaching and Learning at the 3rd Annual Conference of QLS School Members sponsored by Burlington Press.
The conference was held in Kammena Vourla with school
representatives from schools al over Greece and Europe. |
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October
30
2004
Marisa Constantinides presenting a paper on the Educational Value
of Games for Young Learners at one of the
TESOL Greece SIG events. The venue was held at IST College. More
through TESOL Greece |
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 October
11
2004
Many of my trainees have at times
heard about Andrew's L1 acquisition processes, since he was the only
English speaking child in the family whom I could observe and
record. Some have also seen his first attempts at writing in English
and noted his language errors - the aim being to make them feel more
sympathetic towards their foreign language pupils of the same age
and their mistakes. Now, some of them who watch Fame Story
III may have made the connection. Yes, Andreas Konstantinidis is the
same boy! Which has made his aunt break the rule of ELT news only in
this column - well, what can I say? If you would like to find out
more, check out the
Fame Story
website. If your pupils like him, here is a chance to get them
to write their first real emails in English, all from the same front
page when you click on his photo! |
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  September
2004 -
CELT Athens participated in the two major Athens exhibitions, the Kosmos Floras Exhibition at the Holiday Inn Hotel and the
International Publishers' Exhibition at the Divani Caravel Hotel.
The talk presented at the second exhibition, on issues relating to
Discipline attracted more than 350 delegates
showing how much interest there is in this area for foreign language
teachers. |
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 July 2004 - This month,
the following courses have already either been completed (Teaching
and Learning Grammar, Computer Assisted Language Learning, ASEP
Exams Preparation) and two more are under way (Certificate Course in
TEFL and a second ASEP Exam Preparation Course section).
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June 27 2004 - Marisa
Constantinides was invited to present a talk on
Student Bonding
at the first joint event of EUROPALSO & the British Council held at
the Divani Apollo Palace Hotel in Kavouri. The conference was
attended by more thatn 250 delegates and marks a new collaboration
of Europalso and the British Council. |
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June 2004 - This month
three short courses were offered at CELT Athens: a Directors of
Studies Certificate Course, a Teaching English to Adults Course and
Teaching English to Young Learners. |
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March 2004 - Marisa
Constantinides was the featured speaker at the Annual Conference of PALSO Fthiotidos. The theme was PROBLEMS IN THE CLASSROOM and two
talks were presented. The first one had the title
The Many Facets of
Discipline and the second one,
Teaching the Mixed Ability Class. The links above lead to
the session notes which many participants have asked for.
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 January
2004 - CELT Athens was approved as an Examination Centre for
the Institute Linguists Diploma in Translation Examinations and held
its first examinations with candidates taking the English to Greek
option. |
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December 2003
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CELT Athens participated in a
series of seminars organised for teachers and directors of studies
of PALSO Athens foreign language centres. The focus of the seminars
was an Introduction to Computer Assisted Foreign Language Learning
and it was an OAED funded programme for more than 200 participants.
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 December 2003
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Marisa Constantinides gave a talk
to the parents and students of Dimitra Verouti's lovely foreign
language centre in Fyli at the local Town Hall. Parents and students
came to be informed about the differences of the different Language
Examinations and to discuss how to make a choice which examination
to take. |
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 November - December 2003
- Rainbow Theatre is playing a musical version of THE LORD OF THE FLIES - our own drama tutor, Makki Marseilles is the playwright and director
and two of our June 2003 Certificate in TEFL trainees are playing as well! Daniel Humble is playing Ralph, and Carolyn Parkin is playing one of the twins, which one we are not quite sure! Click
here to find out more about the play. |
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November 2003
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Marisa Constantinides presented a
paper on Quality Assurance for Foreign Language Centres and a
Workshop on Introducing Innovation in a Traditional Foreign Language
Centre at the 2nd Annual Conference of QLS School Members which was
sponsored by Burlington Press. |
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November 2003
- CELT Athens ran a short 20-hour course on Teaching English to Young Learners; on the 16th of November, Marisa Constantinides, director of the centre,
gave a keynote speech at the 2nd Annual Conference of QLS (Quality Language Services) with representatives from all parts of Greece and abroad. The Conference was organised by Burlington Books |
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October
2003
saw the start of a number of courses at CELT Athens: a weekday Certificate in TEFL course as well as a Saturday course, a new weekday DELTA
diploma course and a Language Awareness course for teachers of English |
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July
2003
- The results for the English teachers for the ASEP
Examination have come out. Out of the 21 English teachers who
attended the preparation course offered by CELT in November 2002, 18
managed to attain results above pass rate - and most of them have
been appointed. Click here
for their names and grades. |
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April
2003
- Click on the free materials
in the left menu to
check out our samples. This is a new page which is being tested out.
If you have material (worksheets, lesson plans, even projects) which
you have tried and tested in the classroom,
send them in for review. |
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March 2003-
CELT organised a
20-hour course in
Teaching Examination
Preparation Classes
to schools owners and their
teachers - members of the Corfu PALSO Association. The course was
taught over two intensive weekends at the premises of a lovely local
demotic school.
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January
2003
- a new DELTA weekend course just started meeting
about every three weekends. Students come from as far and wide as
Paros, Patras, Agrinion, Korinth and Lycabettus! They are keen to
learn and fun to teach.
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