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"Salsa, Flamenco and Rock and Roll!": the North-East Spanish Conference

Date: July 12, 2010
Location: Gosforth High School, Knightsbridge, Great North Road
Event type: Conference

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"Salsa, Flamenco and Rock and Roll!": the North-East Spanish Conference

5th July 2010
Gosforth High School

 

Theme of the day: Practical activities and ideas for teaching Spanish from Primary to A Level in an engaging, enthusiastic way.

Please contact / book through Claire.Dodd@gosforthhigh.newcastle.sch.uk
Claire Dodd Gosforth High School, Knightsbridge, Great North Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE3 2JH Tel: 0191 285 1000

By Metro from Newcastle Central Station (leave at Regent Centre and turn left – opposite Asda)
 

Programme

9:30 Coffee and Registration

9:55 Welcome and Domestics: Claire McKenna– Head of Spanish and Claire Dodd – Language College Outreach Manager

10:00 Joaquín Moreno - Language Adviser, Asesoría en Edimburgo:
Los Gestos del Español - Spanish Gestures – Some of the most common gestures that Spanish people use; why these gestures should be taught and how and when.

11:00 Break

11:15 John Connor –author of a number of Spanish teaching resources and works freelance as a writer, teacher trainer and examiner for GCSE and A level Spanish.
Developing spontaneous talk and using the life of Evita Perón as the basis for some thinking skills activities.

12:30 Buffet Lunch

13:15 Neil Jones: SSAT languages lead practitioner
Developing creative opportunities for learners in the MFL classroom: techniques to diversify the content of language teaching and to motivate students to use language more creatively.

14: 45 Joaquín Moreno - Ideas for teaching topics and texts for A2 Spanish

15:45 Tea, evaluation and depart

 

Trainer

Please see programme.

Cost

Please contact Claire Dodd.

Downloads:

• Spanish Day2010 (2).doc (228 Kb)