scelt forum presentations
Here you’ll find presentations and slides from SCELT forum 2025, kindly shared by speakers who agreed to make their materials public.
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How can we turn grammar lessons from forgettable routines into memorable encounters? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore low-prep and engaging ways to teach grammar that go beyond routine. You’ll try out visual techniques for introducing grammar concepts, discover fun restricted practice activities, and experience firsthand how gamification can transform learning and foster communicative practice. Get ready to play a grammar board game, solve a logical grammar puzzle, and walk away with easy-to-implement activities that will make grammar click for your teenage learners!
In this informal talk and idea exchange, we’ll explore practical ways to create and adapt bilingual materials for content-based subjects. We’ll share what’s worked (and what hasn’t), look at real examples, and invite you to bring your own ideas to the table. Our aim is to help unify what students and teachers use—making lessons clearer, learning smoother, and life a little easier for everyone involved.
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This workshop will explore how English language has changed through time with more travel, interconnectivity and the passing of generations. Do people speak standard English today? What do your students already know and use that they haven't learned from classes? Where do they learn it? How does it influence them? Interpreting Emojis, Gen Z, urban slang, media generated phrases and national and regional language expressions. Fun ways to use these in your classroom.
Children often struggle with abstract concepts, and one of the most challenging for young learners is understanding the calendar—days of the week, months, and seasons, date. In this interactive workshop, we’ll brainstorm creative and effective methods to make these abstract ideas accessible and engaging. Drawing from my experience teaching many groups of young learners, I will share the strategies and tools I use to simplify the calendar for kids. Participants will explore fun, hands-on activities that turn learning about time into an enjoyable and memorable experience. We’ll discuss ways to introduce the calendar step-by-step, using visual aids, songs, games, and more. By the end of the session, you’ll leave with a toolbox of ideas that will help you teach these challenging concepts in a way that young learners can easily grasp and retain.
When was the last time your students picked up a book simply for the enjoyment of reading and not because they had to answer questions about the material? Why and how does extensive/extended reading impact students' knowledge of English and other language related skills? What are other benefits of extended reading? And what about resources? This workshop aims to address all of these points as well as ideas for fun and creative activities for learners to engage with their reading material without it being assessment based.
Writer Jody Medland uses original plays to promote oracy skills. Oracy doesn't focus solely on the creative aspects of writing, but also promotes the arts of reading, listening, observing, discussing, and public speaking. Jody’s programmes are designed to enhance the English and drama skills of all participants, but there’s much more to it than that. With source material covering many engaging topics and themes, Jody uses his training as a therapist to explain how participants can grow emotionally through the classes, too, making this a "must-attend" discussion.
How would your students (and maybe even you) benefit from having an international student teacher of English in your lessons? This talk shares the Erasmus+ project we have been working on for almost 6 years: Teachers of English for Future Europe. Your school can join the TEFE network too!
The rise of AI technology has transformed how we use and consume language, challenging educators to rethink how we teach writing and reconsider our ideas of academic integrity along the way. Like it or not, students are already using AI to help with their assignments – or even just do all the work for them! Instead of seeing this as a problem, we can teach them to embrace AI as a tool to build on their abilities rather than a shortcut to skipping assignments. This approach encourages the creation of human-first, AI-enhanced work that reflects ethical AI usage. Practical strategies include designing AI-aware assignments, using tools that track writing progress, and even requiring AI interaction as part of the process. Encouraging students to engage critically with AI and reflect on the process not only discourages outright cheating but also helps them use these technologies in ways that are both ethical and effective.
In a time when teachers, just as the whole of society, are being encouraged to do everything through technology, this workshop returns the focus to the essential strength of classroom learning: sheer human togetherness. The workshop will showcase ideas for beginning a class with activities which are both energising and engaging and which allow our learners to find their way into the lesson naturally. We will try out 3 or 4 activities during the workshop that exploit simple and easily adaptable strategies using analogue methods to get students on their feet and working with images, texts and ideas in fun ways. These activities can be used to form groups at the beginning of a class, but they can also be the first step in exploring a topic or working with a particular piece of language. There will be some time at the end of the workshop to share your ideas.
Byť autentický znamená nájsť si svoju vlastnú cestu pri učení, ktorá Ťa bude nielen baviť, ale zabezpečí Ti dlhodovú radosť a spokojnosť z práce. Pod si spolu s nami nájsť svoju cestu a využiť svoj potenciál k dosiahnutiu svojej spokojnosti a radosti.
Pri učení detí máme dvoch klientov. Je to dieťa, pre ktoré to celé robíme a je to rodič. Poďme sa spolu pozrieť na to, ako si
z rodičov vytvoriť partnerov pri učení detí. Zjednodušíme prácu sebe a tiež vytvoríme deťom prostredie, v ktorom môžu efektívne a prirodzene napredovať.
The rise of AI technology has transformed how we use and consume language, challenging educators to rethink how we teach writing and reconsider our ideas of academic integrity along the way. Like it or not, students are already using AI to help with their assignments – or even just do all the work for them! Instead of seeing this as a problem, we can teach them to embrace AI as a tool to build on their abilities rather than a shortcut to skipping assignments. This approach encourages the creation of human-first, AI-enhanced work that reflects ethical AI usage. Practical strategies include designing AI-aware assignments, using tools that track writing progress, and even requiring AI interaction as part of the process. Encouraging students to engage critically with AI and reflect on the process not only discourages outright cheating but also helps them use these technologies in ways that are both ethical and effective.