Equipping Business English Students for the Media Spotlight Are your Business English students well-versed in grammar and vocabulary, but struggle when it comes to real-world communication? In today’s digital age, business leaders are constantly in the media spotlight, and navigating interviews, press conferences, and even social media interactions can be a daunting task. This is […]
Liability Requirements for Self-Employed Instructors Review
Liability Requirements for Self-Employed Instructors Review. As a newly arrived English teacher in Germany, one of the many instances of culture shock that I encountered was just how much German people seemed to love insurance. “Really? I need insurance for that?” I said when someone explained that I needed to have personal liabilty insurance – […]
Revolutionizing language Teaching: ChatGPT Workshop Impresses!
Written by: Dr. Haripriya Pareek, ELTAS secretary. Sam Gravell deserves a massive round of applause and congratulations for selecting such a relevant and contextual topic related to language teaching and teachers. The workshop “ChatGPT101: Empowering Language Teachers with AI” truly felt empowering and lived up to the expectations of those who attended it. It’s crucial, […]
Workshop Review: 007 Strategies for (More) Success in Business Communication with Ian McMaster
On September 17th ELTAS welcomed back Ian McMaster, business communication consultant and former longtime editor of the popular magazine ‘Business Spotlight’. Despite the 007 in the title, the workshop did not teach us how to become ultra-suave super spies with a license to kill, but instead provided us with some useful strategies that can help […]
ELTA Event: ELTA Rhine Summer Summer Discussion and Meet-Up
Written by: Rachel Tsateri On August 20th, I had the pleasure of attending the summer networking and discussion event in Dusseldorf, organized by ELTA Rhine. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet, collaborate and share best practices with ELT colleagues from different parts of Germany, The day was split into two parts. […]
Workshop Review: Transforming Grammar through Neurolanguage Coaching Conversations with Rachel Palin...
On July 16th, 30 Eltas members and visitors from other ELTAs around Germany came out to enjoy the sunshine in our summer event, a workshop with Rachel Paling on Neurolanguage. We started off with a brunch at California Bounge in Stuttgart. For some people it was the first face to face event in over a […]
Workshop Review: Grammar as a Fifth Skill with Khanh-Duc Kuttig
On May 7th 2022, Eltas welcomed Khanh-Duc Kuttig for her workshop ‘Grammar as a Fifth Skill’. It was also our first hybrid event, with people attending both in person in Stuttgart and online from all over Germany. Grammar itself can be a loaded term, often eliciting negative reactions from students and even some teachers. […]
Get to Know the Exec: Michelle Kremser- Chair
This is the the first in a series of blogs in which you can get to know more about the people who run ELTAS, i.e. the exec. We start off with our intrepid leader, Michelle Kremser, ELTAS chair. What is your best memory of ELTAS? Recording the music video for You Gotta Teach It, in […]
Workshop Review: ‘Invisible Body Language’ with Sabrina Lucidi”
As teachers, building trust and maintaining relationships is central to the work we do. However, this can be challenging in the current environment with 70% of communication taking place online, often asynchronously. On March 26th Sabrina Lucidi tackled this issue in her workshop on INVISIBLE BODY LANGUAGE. Invisible body language refers to nonverbal communication, both […]
Lesson Idea: Infobesity
Article By: Rachel Tsateri This is the first in a regular series of blog posts in which we share a lesson idea that can be expanded and adapted to your learners and context. We hope you will enjoy it and leave us some feedback on what you think. The first topic is INFOBESITY, which according […]
Event Review: “Textploitation – How to Get the Most from Your Texts” – sponsored by Klett
On Jan 2nd, ELTAS welcomed David Byrne and Mark Heffernan for an online workshop on ‘Texploitation’, which was kindly sponsored by Klett. It proved to be a stimulating afternoon, with a lot of interaction and concrete takeaways that the participants could apply to their teaching. What is Textploitation you may ask? It is the […]
Inter-ELTA Members’ Day PechaKuchas
Written by: Rachel Tsateri Did you attend the 2nd Inter-ELTA members’ day online event? It was a great opportunity for all Germany ELTAs members to meet, network and share ideas for best practices. There was a plenary talk by Ian McMaster, 3 PechaKuchas, and roundtable discussions, as well as hands-on workshops. In this post, Tom […]
Happy New Year from ELTAS!
Happy New Year from ELTAS! Wishing all Eltas members and visitors a happy, healthy and inspiring 2022! We’re pleased to announce that Eltas members Cate Jakszta and Rachel Tsateri will be regularly sharing teaching tips and ideas from ELT on the Eltas blog. Originally from the U.K., About Cate: She taught in Japan for eleven […]
ELTAS CHRISTMAS EVENT on 4th DECEMBER 2021
Luckily, this year the ELTAS Christmas Event on 4th December could finally take place face-to-face at the International School of Management (ISM), Maybachstraße 20 in Stuttgart. We all enjoyed this new venue very much! Before celebrating Christmas accompanied by Andy Yarahmadi’s amazing “The End Game Band“, we had a very interesting swap shop with Katrin […]
IATEFL BESIG Conference 2021 Review
At IATEFL BESIG conference 2021 on agile retrospectives practice at an iteration end, was a tour through key aspects of business English as a discipline today.
A look at Pedagogical Approaches to the Teaching of Formulaic Language (FL)
A look at Pedagogical Approaches to the Teaching of Formulaic Language (FL) Written by: Rachel Tsateri Recently, I attended a great webinar, organised by the IATEFL Research SIG. The presenter was Dr Ana Pellicer-Sanchez and the topic was: Pedagogical approaches to the teaching of formulaic language (FL). In this post I’ll provide a short summary […]
Review of Pearson’s Wendy Nash-Steer Workshop
In this review of Pearson’s Wendy Nash-Steer workshop, it was refreshing, enjoyable and very interactive time about tips and tricks for online teaching: Zoom with “Boom.” The workshop participants had a lot of interesting discussions in the breakout rooms about their individual experience with online teaching, their favourite tools, success and failures as well as […]
ELTAS’ Tim Phillips Workshop Review on September 18, 2021
In ELTAS’ Tim Phillips workshop, there were two reasons to look forward to this event on September 18, 2021. The first was that the workshop by Timothy Phillips titled “Practical approaches to integrating soft skills development in your teaching and training” was sure to be interesting and enlightening. The second was that it was the […]
Eltas meets “offline”!
It was fantastic to finally meet in person at Tim Phillip’s workshop “Practical approaches to integrating soft skills development in your teaching and training” on September 18th at ISM’s spanking new venue in Maybachstrasse. After an afternoon of learning and exchanging, we did some catching up at while chowing down at a nearby Chinese restaurant. […]
Member’s review of Rachel Paling’s workshop
On Saturday July 17th, 2021, ELTAS hosted a workshop by Rachel Paling, “Transforming grammar through Neurolanguage Coaching Conversations” The participants, from ELTAS and partner organizations from around Germany, included people who had already taken Rachel’s training courses, as well as people like me who were coming to Neurolanguage Coaching for the first time. Rachel explained […]
Sunny solutions on a summery afternoon
Written by: Andrea Vogt-Nas Our joint ELTAS/ELTAF venture hosted another of Patricia de Griese’s workshops on Saturday, 12 June: “Dealing with difficult students” Despite the summery weather a number of ELTA members across Germany took part in the online event. Prior to starting, participants had the possibility for a quick chat in the teachers’ lounge. […]
