Liverpool - Summer 2013 teaching young learners

Young Learner Residential Summer School Vacancies

Now recruiting EFL Teachers

The Liverpool School of English is seeking to recruit enthusiastic and reliable EFL teachers for their Young Learner Summer Schools to be held this summer at various venues across the UK.

The General English classes will have a maximum of 15 students and students will be placed in groups on arrival according to their level of English. The lessons will be communicative and designed to develop all four skills, with a focus on speaking and listening.

The classes will be both task-based and content-based, allowing the students to personalise the topic and themes of the day and to prepare for the afternoon and weekend excursions.

All classrooms are well-equipped and teachers will use videos, webquests and power point to ensure lessons are creative and dynamic.

Teachers will also be expected to participate in the afternoon and evening activities on a rota basis.

With many years’ experience, The Liverpool School of English knows what makes the perfect summer school programme – academic excellence, an exciting cultural, social and sports programme and exceptional pastoral care. Our Young Learner Residential Summer Schools are tailored to suit overseas students who are aged 13-17 and run between June and August.

We run these courses in Liverpool, Chester, Salford and the South-East. Each venue provides both staff and students with excellent premises and facilities where we offer accommodation, meals and sports activities.

Person Specification

Essential

·         CELTA or CertTESOL qualified or equivalent

·         IT literate

·         Proficiency in time management

·         Adaptable and hard-working

·         Excellent communication skills

·         Native speaker fluency required

Desirable

·         Degree qualified or equivalent

·         Residential, young learner experience

·         Teaching experience

·         Interest in sports, drama and/or music

·         Experience and/or an interest in working with single and mixed nationality groups

·         The Liverpool School of English is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. We are British Council and Independent Schools Inspectorate accredited. A CRB/DBS check will be requested in the event of a successful application.

Salary & Benefits

·         £350 per week

·         Accommodation and meals

·         Excellent facilities and resources

·         A full staff induction and well established operating procedures with personalised staff support

Applications

Please send your application form, CV and lesson plan to lauraowens@lse.uk.net . The first round of interviews will be between 25-28 February, the second round between the 11-15 March and the third round between the 8-12 April.

Please let us know when you are available for interview and whether you require a Skype interview or you can attend in person.

Further information

For an application form and lesson plan template please see our recruitment page: http://www.lse.uk.net/about/recruitment.aspx

Japan - Agency

Jobs in Japan for qualified CELTA teachers:

If you are looking for a great first job we might be able to help. UIC Teachers recruits for a well-established school in Japan. We send teachers there all year round and are always pleased to hear from teachers thinking of starting out in a country that is great fun to work in and and rewarding as well. The school offers excellent pay and conditions and gives good support to their teachers.

If you have any questions about finding a job you are more than welcome to get in touch with us.

UIC Teachers info@uicteachers.com

Our mailing address is: UIC Teachers UIC, Language House 76-78 Mortimer Street London, London W1W 7SA United Kingdom Add us to your address book

Grammar and punctuation quiz in the Guardian

There is a short quiz on grammar and punctuation in the Guardian, you can access it on the following link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/teacher-blog/quiz/2013/feb/04/grammar-punctuation-quiz-test

What the loveliest word in the English language?

The following article is taken from the 'mind your language' blog on The Guardian, what do you think? What's the loveliest word in the English language? Here are some suggestions. Now we'd like to hear yours It was the linguist JR Firth who, in 1930, coined the term phonoaesthetics to refer to the study of how words sound. I came across it recently when, 26 years later than most, I heard Marlow ask in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective: "What's the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in the mouth? In the shape it makes in the page? E-L-B-O-W." (And yes, for anyone else who didn't know, it is where the band got its name.) The film Donnie Darko offers a tip of its hat, too, in the lines of Drew Barrymore's character, teacher Karen Pomeroy: "This famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, 'cellar door' is the most beautiful." The famous linguist was none other than JRR Tolkien, and he made the claim in his 1955 lecture English and Welsh. There's also Robert Beard's The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English. Although you're unlikely to agree with them all, Beard's list does help make some phonetic links: the B and L common to bungalow, elbow and one of my favourites, for example. Long vowels and liquid sounds such as L and R have been considered particularly beautiful since the ancient Greeks, but I'd love to know where B fits in. So, in no particular order, here are five that for me illustrate Tolkien's description of the phonetic pleasure of words as "simpler, deeper-rooted, and yet more immediate" than any practical or structural understanding of their sense. cwtch Beautiful and useful, it fills the space created by my loathing of the word cuddle or the even more egregious snuggle. (A chap who asked if I "fancied a snuggle?" once had the same effect on my libido as salt on slugs.) Admittedly it's not English - Tolkien also believed "cellar doors" to be more frequent in Welsh - but, as none of the Welsh friends from whom I learned it were Welsh-speakers, it's in. kecks First heard used with a provocative wiggle ("Do you like my new kecks?") by a lad from Leeds on whom I had a crush. Both kecks and cwtch possess a splash of nostalgia (not least for the days of maintenance grants, which allowed word-lovers to mudlark further afield) but I love their sound, too: short, punchy, and based on the voiceless velar stop. K, however, was considered one of the least beautiful sounds by the ancient Greeks, so perhaps it's a personal quirk. beetroot No liquid sounds here, either, but B makes a reappearance. A down-to-earth word with no time for fripperies. I suspect menus that describe it as "creamy" miss the point. Unlike a red, red rose, beetroot illustrates Paul Claudel's belief that "to beware adjectives is the beginning of style". rococo Closer to a classical sense of phonetic beauty, it's as smooth and chubby as a cherub. And finally (those Bs and Ls again) - balalaika A word as sensuous as a single malt. I never did get to kiss the boy in the corduroys but, if I had, I'm sure it would have been as lovely as "balalaika". Harriet Powney blogs at http://lasoeurlumiere.wordpress.com/ • This article was amended on 25 May 2012. In the original version, cwtch was misspelled as cwch. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2012/may/25/mind-your-language-loveliest-word?INTCMP=SRCH [Accessed 4th December 2012]

EAP website

And another website for EAP professionals, with lots of information and activities:

http://www.uefap.com/

EAP practice - University of Bristol

Great website that provides information about pronunciation and grammar and also has activities for self study.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/index.htm

Websites for ESOL/EFL resources etc

This is a list of useful website compiled by David Bairstow in 2009:

http://www.englishbanana.com/

http://www.eslpartyland.com/quiz%20center/quiz.htm

http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english.htm

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/

http://www.englishpage.com/

http://www.better-english.com/grammar.htm

http://www.smic.be/smic5022/Onlineexercises.htm#Reading-comprehension

http://a4esl.org/

http://www.1-language.com/eslquizzes/

http://www.eslgo.com/quizzes.html