Making the Most out of the Song
with Alexey Lebedev
and
Bonus Session on Writing
with Alena Nikitina
October 30, 2022
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Moscow
Avia Plaza, Aviamotornaya street, 10 b.2.
Guest Speaker:
Alexey Lebedev
(MA in Philology, IH Certificate in Teaching 1-2-1, a freelance Swedish and English teacher, the leader of ‘Sångskolan’ project)
Alena Nikitina
(TKT 1-3, CLIL, CELTA, CPE holder, EFL teacher, author and co-author of 3 textbooks, course designer)
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Moscow
Avia Plaza, Aviamotornaya street, 10 b.2.
Guest Speaker:
Alexey Lebedev
(MA in Philology, IH Certificate in Teaching 1-2-1, a freelance Swedish and English teacher, the leader of ‘Sångskolan’ project)
Alena Nikitina
(TKT 1-3, CLIL, CELTA, CPE holder, EFL teacher, author and co-author of 3 textbooks, course designer)
About the Speakers
Alexey Lebedev
Alexey Lebedev is a freelance Swedish and English teacher with 10 years of experience, MA in Philology. He specializes in teaching adults. He possesses an IH certificate in Teaching 1-2-1. He leads a project called ‘Sångskolan’ that helps his students study Swedish with songs.
Alena Nikitina
Alena Nikitina is an EFL teacher with more than 20 years of experience (with 13 years at RUDN University, Moscow). She has been working as a freelance teacher for the last 2 years.
Alena is a TKT 1-3, CLIL, CELTA, CPE holder, an author and co-author of 3 textbooks, a course designer, and a conference speaker (Meaningful Weekend 2021, #YarConf22).
She has conducted 8 online marathons on CPE writing.
Alena is a TKT 1-3, CLIL, CELTA, CPE holder, an author and co-author of 3 textbooks, a course designer, and a conference speaker (Meaningful Weekend 2021, #YarConf22).
She has conducted 8 online marathons on CPE writing.
About the Workshop
Making the Most out of the Song
Undoubtedly, we all love songs and so do our learners. They need a kind of hook to get engaged in the topic and we can use a piece of music for that. Not only do songs help us generate interest and motivate our learners, music is a great resource for lessons on systems as well. We can use songs to teach vocabulary, focus on pronunciation and clarify some grammar. You name it.
At our workshop, we will create a set of different tasks based on the one and only song. You will be able to use them right away. Alexey Lebedev will show you many different approaches and outcomes, and you will realize that creating tasks is not that time-consuming. Having worked with songs for a while Alexey Lebedev knows what works well with students, but he is open to new ideas — we will share, discuss and have fun working on the best piece of art — a song.
Writing for CPE: The impact of tone on communicative achievement
The session with Alena Nikitina will be devoted to a quite underexplored notion of tone in exam writing.
Sometimes, when we are supposed to write on a topic we feel strong about, we might get carried away and pour out all the negativity we have toward a contentious subject in our text, and ultimately on our reader.
The question is: To what extent can we expose our feelings in exam writing? Especially, if you don’t feel in any way positive about the subject you are writing about…
In the session with Alena Nikitina we:
⁃ will give the definition of tone;
⁃ will discuss the connection of tone and register;
⁃ will see how the tone of your writing might contribute to your grade for communicative achievement;
⁃ will discuss what a candidate should avoid doing in their writing in order not to put the reader off.
Undoubtedly, we all love songs and so do our learners. They need a kind of hook to get engaged in the topic and we can use a piece of music for that. Not only do songs help us generate interest and motivate our learners, music is a great resource for lessons on systems as well. We can use songs to teach vocabulary, focus on pronunciation and clarify some grammar. You name it.
At our workshop, we will create a set of different tasks based on the one and only song. You will be able to use them right away. Alexey Lebedev will show you many different approaches and outcomes, and you will realize that creating tasks is not that time-consuming. Having worked with songs for a while Alexey Lebedev knows what works well with students, but he is open to new ideas — we will share, discuss and have fun working on the best piece of art — a song.
Writing for CPE: The impact of tone on communicative achievement
The session with Alena Nikitina will be devoted to a quite underexplored notion of tone in exam writing.
Sometimes, when we are supposed to write on a topic we feel strong about, we might get carried away and pour out all the negativity we have toward a contentious subject in our text, and ultimately on our reader.
The question is: To what extent can we expose our feelings in exam writing? Especially, if you don’t feel in any way positive about the subject you are writing about…
In the session with Alena Nikitina we:
⁃ will give the definition of tone;
⁃ will discuss the connection of tone and register;
⁃ will see how the tone of your writing might contribute to your grade for communicative achievement;
⁃ will discuss what a candidate should avoid doing in their writing in order not to put the reader off.
Making the Most out of the Song & Session on Writing
An excerpt of the presentation given by Alexey Lebedev and Alena Nikitina at the 2022 October meeting of the Teacher Mentor Learning Community.
