2001 Plovdiv

Practicum for Mastering Spoken English
The development of this Practicum for mastering Spoken English was a joint venture with Peace Corps/ Romania, Vasile Goldis University/Arad, CHF – Cooperative Housing Foundation/Arad, CARA – CASA de AJUTOR RECIPROC a ASOCIAŢIILOR/Arad, Romania, Modular Construction S.R.L./Arad, and Club-52 Toastmasters International, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America. Toastmasters International is [...]

I am an actress.
My stage is my classroom.
Can I really act?
Should I really act?
Teaching cadets of a Police School is like teaching any other adults if you can consider young people between 18 and 25 adults. That particular age means: impatience, eagerness, anxiousness, sometimes concern for the family and friends they left at home, fear, [...]

Both techniques consist of three main stages which are the following:

Arousing the interest
Reading and follow-up activities
Reflection

The texts used are extracts from “Biology! Bringing Science to Life”, J. H. Postlethwait et al., McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1991 (“Atoms and Molecules”) and “Atlas of Anatomy” introduced by T. Weston, MD, MRCGP, Marshal Cavendish, 1995 (“Cells and Chromosomes”, “Body Structure [...]

[The following is the verbatim copy of a plenary speech delivered in Budapest, Edinburgh, Mexico City, Caracas, Athens, Opatija and Plovdiv. During his talk, Peter Medgyes conducts a dialogue with a dummy.]
Motto: “I regard truth as a divine ventriloquist.”
Coleridge
Behind the mask
I don’t know how it is with you, but I love ELT coursebooks. I’m hooked [...]

There is no question that speaking a foreign language today is a necessity and in particular English immerged in our schools not only as a separate language discipline. The number of subjects thought in English constantly increases thus giving the teachers the opportunity to explore this new challenge. Through content learning students broaden their [...]

I’m happiest when most away
I can bear my soul from its home of clay
On a windy night when the moon is bright
And the eye can wander through worlds of light –
When I am not and none beside –
Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky –
But only spirit wandering wide
Through infinite immensity.
Inside the theme of Nature [...]

Abstract
There are tales and stories interesting for all ages. Stories are rich material for foreign language lessons. They are bearer of different cultural and moral values and base for various exercises: reading comprehension, listening comprehension,speaking and writing tasks, creative activities. Children like stories so it would be useful to their teachers to be acquainted [...]