Handouts: 2008/2009

    Jerusalem
    Eilat
    Nazareth Illit
    Haifa
    Rishon Lezion
    Bet Yerach
    Kefar Saba
    Beer Sheva
    Hatzor Haglilit

Previous Conferences
(2001- 2007/8)

Presenters' handouts from previous ETAI conferences 20008/09

These handouts are Microsoft Word documents (.doc or .rtf),
PowerPoint presentations (.ppt) or Adobe Reader (.pdf) files.

ETAI Summer Conference - Jerusalem - July 2009

Lexicalise Your Lesson 2: Teaching Grammar - Leo Selivan

Live Listening - Leo Selivan

Using computers to teach English in a Special Education School - Zohara Barzilai

Another Year of Teaching Weak Pupils: Turning Failure into Success (ppt) - Melanie Shaul

Bark On About Fluency (pdf - 2.75mb) - Elisheva Barkon

Teachers' Coping Styles as Mediators of Teachers' Classroom Management - Ramon Lewis, Latrobe University, Australia
      Control
      Disucssion

Thinking Skills for Weak Learners (ppt) - Mimi Yotzer

Writing Accuracy - Susan Holzman

Extensive Reading in the Classroom: How to Make it Work - Amanda Caplan
      Extensive Reading Cards (.pdf)
      Match Genre and Blurb Cards (.pdf)
      Test the Level (.pdf)

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ETAI Mini Conference - Eilat - May 2009

HOTS: Not Just for Literature - Penny Ur, Oranim Academic College of Education

Student's Can Right If You Give Them a Chance (.ppt) - Ann Shlapobersky
Writing activities (.zip)

ETAI Mini Conference - Nazareth Illit - May 2009

Creating Interesting Exercises and making boring exercises Interesting - Penny Ur

Increasing Comprehension: Eliciting, Encouraging and Elaborating Inference Skills (ppt) - Margaret MacAdam, English Language Fellow, American Embassy

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ETAI Spring Conference - Haifa - April 2009

The Power of Poetry to Promote HOTS - Judy Astary

The Dictionary - Authentic Exercises - Susan Holtzman

Technology Can Bring Reading Comprehension to Life - Walk 4 Your Life (ppt) - Ann Shlapobersky , Eric Cohen Books
    Audio files (zip)

HOTS: Not Just for Literature - Penny Ur, Oranim Academic College of Education

Learning by Doing: but who does the doing? - Fran Sokel
   Table activity

ETAI 2009 final Learning difficulties and English acquisition obstacles challenges (ppt) - Janina Kahn-Horwitz

The WHs of Web 2.0 (ppt) - Micki Zaritsky

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ETAI Mini-Conference - Rishon Lezion - February 2009

Teaching Vocabulary: Going Beyond the Textbook - Penny Ur, Oranim Academic College of Education

ETAI Mini-Conference - Bet Yerach - February 2009

HOTS: Not Just for Literature - Penny Ur, Oranim Academic College of Education

ETAI Mini-Conference - Kefar Saba - January 2009

Sing a Song of Sixpence: Authentic Texts for Appreciation of Literature and Culture - Debbie Topperoff

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ETAI Winter Conference - Beer Sheva - December 2008

Pedagogy IS Brain Science! Or, your brain is already a poet - Prof. Ellen Spolsky, English Department, Bar Ilan University
    The Silver Dagger (poem)

Teaching Business English: Negotiating Effectively - Ira Director, English Services
    Vocabulary Practice 1
    Vocabulary Practice 2
    Vocabulary Practice 3

Sing-a-Lauren : The Bear Went over the Mountain - Laurie Ornstein, High School for Environmental Studies

You Can Do It! - Dr. Sharon Azaria, Talpiot College and Achva Academic College

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in the Regular High-School English Classroom - Naomi Ganin-Epstein, Yehud Comprehensive High-School, "Shema" Counselor of English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

Teaching Poetry to Teenagers: The Importance of Creative Writing in the EFL Classroom - Glenda Sacks, Achva College of Education

Can my Students become Responsible, Thinking Learners?? YES, Find Out How - Aviva Shapiro, Beit Yerach Regional High School, The Jordan Valley, REED counselor (The North)
    Feedback Form

Assessing and Supporting ESOL Adults with Dyslexic Tendencies in UK - Liz Shapiro
    Spelling Strategies (.pdf)
    Spelling Error Analysis
    Israeli Technology (jpg)
    Recommendations
    Websites

HOTS: Not Just for Literature - Penny Ur, Oranim Academic College of Education

British Council Second Life Island for Teenagers - Serious Fun for Learners (ppt) - Charlotte Brander, British Council

Teaching Resources at Your Fingertips (ppt) - Nicola Crowley, British Council

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ETAI Mini-Conference - Hatzor Haglilit - December 2008

Bark on about reading fluency (ppt) - Elisheva Barkon

Learning Disabilities in the Classroom: What does it mean for you as a teacher? (ppt) - Jackie Teplitz

Laying the Foundation for Positive Classroom Behavior (ppt) - Aviva Shapiro

Teaching Resources at Your Fingertips (ppt) - Nicola Crowley, British Council