Superior Homestay
From £275 per week
Spacious, well-presented homes, with large bedrooms and shared bathroom facilities. Enjoy excellent home cooked meals.
Find out moreThis programme is for teachers, trainers, materials writers, and anyone who wishes to speak from the heart with impact and clarity. The course is for speakers of English as an additional language (min B2), or as a first language.
There are two parallel strands to this practical programme:
1. Develop confidence in your own pronunciation of sounds, words and connected speech. Learn to sense what you do in your mouth so you can critique and change your pronunciation as little or as much as you wish, and learn techniques to help your learners do the same.
2. Develop your spoken performance skill through presentation and performance, maximising listener engagement through your voice tone, pause, energy distribution, timing, intonation, fluency, body language and … speaking from the heart. Integrate pronunciation to bring language to life.
The course culminates with the production of our own Poetry Festival
During the programme you will enjoy a complete workout with the Sound Foundations chart, receive constant feedback to gain confidence and mastery, and experience a range of new teaching techniques, all of which are transferable to your teaching style and your classes.
A practical, experiential, innovative, enjoyable and fully active programme.
On this course you will:
1. Gain a thorough, practical insight into the physicality of pronunciation including words, stress, unstress, and connected speech
2. Develop your personal expression and speaking from the heart in free speech and poetry.
3. Develop confidence and presence in your spoken performance, for example whenever you talk to your class.
4. Experience first hand and practise new teaching techniques to help your learners bring their speech to life.
5. Integrate pronunciation work completely into all class work and at all levels.
A practical, experiential, enjoyable and fully active week:
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About Adrian Underhill
Adrian is a world-renowned ELT Consultant and Trainer. He is an author and the series editor of the Macmillan Books for Teachers. He is well known for his book Sound Foundations and his inspiring talks on how to use the phonemic chart. His current projects include teaching beyond methods, and bringing playfulness, spontaneity, improvisation and storytelling into classroom learning.
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