SUMMER SCHOOL - 2026
July, August and September
GET AHEAD!
ENJOY THE JOURNEY
WITH OUR ONLINE COURSES
This summer we are offering an exciting range of courses for teachers of English, STARTING ON 1ST JULY.
The courses are designed to entertain, to stimulate, to help you improve your skills as a teacher and to give you training and teaching material that will be help you be well prepared for the oposiciones .
OPOSICIONES PREPARATION - EOI & SECONDARY
Take advantage of the summer months. Immerse yourself in English and GET AHEAD by selecting a SUMMER EARLY PREPARATION PACKAGE.
Apart from the General Preparation, which includes all aspects of the oposiciones proess, see below for the other courses we offer that will really help you save time and GET AHEAD. The summer months are ideal for this, as you have more time and flexibility. Timetables are adaptable so that you can ENJOY YOUR SUMMER and also GET AHEAD.
CONTACT ME for options and advice on the best way for you to do this, depending on your situation. duthie.angela@gmail.com
PRONUNCIATION and TRANSCRIPTION COURSES - A DIFFERENT APPROACH.
Help yourself and help your learners.
Pronunciation is probably the most neglected aspect of English teaching. Many teachers are well aware that they need to improve their own pronunciation, and simply do not know how to help learners in an effective way. It is really not enough for people with the same mother tongue to understand what you are saying. Communicative competence starts with making the right sounds!
These courses are designed with a very DIIFFERENT APPROACH from the theoretical phonetics courses you may have done at university. I work with you personally in a very practical way to practice how to open and move your mouth to create English sounds. We FOCUS ON THE PROSODY OF THE LANGUAGE (stress, rhythm and intonation) because this lays the foundation for pronunciation and language acquisition. When you learn how to do this, many people realise how much more English they sound and how much more clearly they communicate.
You will also learn how to INTERPRET ENGLISH SOUNDS FROM SPELLING. A high percentage of pronunciation errors occur because people are actually trying to say the wrong sound! You need to learn to read again - but in English. This is more complex than reading in Spanish. For example, in English, when you see the letter 'a' in a word, there are 9 possible ways to pronounce it. When you see the letter 'o' or the letter 'e', there are 10 possible ways. Once you learn how to do these things, you will be surprised how quickly you can notice the improvement, and how your learners will be delighted with what they can do. People say there are no rules for these things in English. Oh, yes - there are!
If you are preparing for the oposiciones, you should note that it is becoming more and more frequent for opositores to be told by the tribunals that they cannot pass because their pronunciation is not good enough. Don't let this happen to you. Learn to be a good language model for your students. Learn to create a good impression in front of the tribunal. The summer holidays are a perfect opportunity to improve your pronunciation.
CONTACT ME to discuss your situation and work out the best plan for you.
PRICE for each level ( 8 sessions) – 150 Euros.
TRANSCRIPTION levels 1 and 2
These courses are are linked to the pronunciation courses but can be taken independently. They are designed for you to work on alone on the Google Classroom, and can be started at any time, You can take as long as you like to finish it. Answer Keys are included. I monitor your progress and we have a live zoom session when necessary to sort out any problems.
We start simply, with the basics, to help those who have never studied phonetics before and to serve as revision for those who have some experience.. There are explanation, worksheets and tasks to do, as well as Answer Keys for each block of work. I check your progress on the classroom and you can ask me any doubts you have.
PRICE for each level – 100 Euros. (discount if taken with the Pronunciation courses)
FROM MOTHERESE TO TEACHER-TALK
How to talk to Learners to promote Language Acquisition.
This short course examines how babies develop language and how this process is encouraged with the use of 'Motherese' , also known as 'Parentese' or 'Infant Directed Speech'. We then consider how this is applicable to second language learning, and explore how to put 'Teacher Talk' into practice, with learners of all ages, to promote language acquisition.
This course is useful on its own, but it is also very useful as a complement to the pronunciation courses, which also include techniques for speaking to learners and to incorporate into your Learning Situations.. What is Teacher-Talk Input - and why is it so important with learners of all ages? By understanding how language acquisition develops with mother tongue learners, and with reference to Krashen, we explore how you can use your voice in the classroom to really promote your students' language development. Useful for all levels.
4 Hours - PRICE – 80 Euros.
SUMMER LITERATURE - CREATING DIDACTIC UNITS & LEARNING SITUATIONS
The following courses are available during the summer.
DISCOUNTS FOR PACKS OF COURSES.
NURSERY RHYMES AND TRADITIONAL TALES - for all levels and ages
6 hours
(3 two-hour sessions)
Price: 100 Euros
Nursery Rhymes and tales are the beginning of literature for children and play a vital role in language development. How can they promote language acquisition with EFL learners? This course will show you how to use them to form the foundation of the prosody of language (rhythm and intonation), to develop pronunciation, storytelling, and discourse structure; how to use the historical cultural references to create stimulating teaching material for young and also older learners. You will have plenty of motivating material, ideas and techniques to use in class and to create innovative, thought-provoking Learning Situations / Didactic units.
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DETECTIVE FICTION
6 hours
(3 two-hour sessions)
Price:
100 Euros
Detective fiction is popular with everyone – and is great for developing critical thinking. Who doesn’t love a puzzle to solve, clues to decipher? In this module, we will see how to help learners collaborate in groups develop skills and competences through creating their own detective story, step-by-step, looking at all the elements: setting, sleuth protagonist, sidekick, types of crime, witnesses, red herrings, solving riddles - and story structure. Lots of material provided on the google classroom for the creation and structure of a didactic unit /learning situation.
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POETRY IN ACTION
6 hours
(3 two-hour sessions)
Price: 100 Euros
“I used to think nurses were women
I used to think police were men
I used to think poets were boring
Until I became one of them.”
( Benjamin Zephaniah)
Poems are a very versatile resource to use with EFL learners. They are short, manageable texts that range from the most simple, linguistically and conceptually, to the more complex. There is something there for any age and level. They help to develop pronunciation and rhythm, expand vocabulary and develop an appreciation of the language while exploring other topics. There is a liberty in poetry that will encourage learners to lose their fear and write something themselves. This course covers a wide range of poems that can be selected to create different DUs / Learning Situations, and can be incorporated into all kinds of topics. – love, joy, humour, prejudice, age, grief, ecology, childhood and growing up and so much more. Suggestions and topic packs are on the google classroom.
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SHAKESPEARE PROJECT - 2 MODULES
NOTE: The two SHAKESPEARE modules can be taken separately – but work really well together.
Each module:
6 hours;(3 two-hour sessions)
Price: 100 Euros
*There is a discount of 20 Euros when both modules are taken, so the total price for both modules = 180 Euros
SHAKESPEARE. Part one - TIME TRAVEL TO SHAKESPEARE'S WORLD
With the help of the time-travel YA novel, King of Shadows, by Susan Cooper, and other original material, this module shows how to take learners into Shakespeare’s world and give them a flavour of what daily life was like compared with Spain at the time, and compared with their own lives: Shakespeare’s house, eating and drinking, sleeping, keeping clean, clothes, education, earning a living, children and parents, all the smells and tastes of life and ….. what happened in the mystery ‘Lost Years’ of Shakespeare before he appeared in London as a known playwright and actor?
At the end of the module you will have the structure and materials for an active, collaborative teaching unit that trains learners to do research and present their findings, to become familiar with Shakespeare’s time and relate it to Spain, and to their own lives.
SHAKESPEARE - Part two – THE MAGIC OF SHAKESPEARE . .
Murder, love, ambition, magic, superstition, revenge, ghosts ...
Wait! Are we talking about popular films … soap operas? No. We are talking about Shakespeare and how his magic with words breathed life into these themes, so that people still call English ‘the language of Shakespeare’.
Why is Shakespeare still relevant and exciting now? In this module we aim to show how the universal themes that are the motor of Shakespeare’s plays are all around us today, and how to harness them, with Shakespeare, to develop English with our learners, creating active, exciting, DUs / Learning Situations.
At the end of the module you will have the structure and materials for active, collaborative teaching units that use Shakespeare's plays and themes as a reference to create active and imaginative Didactic Units /Learning Situations for your students, incorporating all the competences and skills that they need to develop and that are relevant to their own lives.
SCIENCE FICTION: PAST AND PRESENT VISIONS OF THE FUTURE.
How did writers in the past envision the future? What do writers today think the future will be like? We look at some key stories in the history of science fiction, what real events inspired them, and the stories being written today that are relevant to our lives. This entertaining course explores how to use Science Fiction and Dystopian stories with EFL learners to create innovaitve teaching units and invites critical thinking and curiosity.
WHO ARE THE SPIES?
We look at the evolution of spy stories and the stories of some real spies. Who are the writers? Who are the spies? How are they recruited? How do they reflect history and the world we live in today?
JULY - AUGUST - SEPTEMBER
DIFFERENT COURSES THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER
REGISTRATION OPEN NOW
CONTACT ME FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Email: duthie.angela@gmail.com