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Ada Peters

Powergrids​

Length: 45 minutes
Audience focus: Teachers of adolescent leaners, Teachers of adult learners

Textbooks don’t always present content in ways that motivate and activate students. They follow a set pattern, and whether the topic is grammar, vocabulary or practicing the skills, students mostly end up writing down answers to questions, filling in gaps, or just doing written grammar exercises.
Grids can be a tool to approach textbook materials in a different way. They turn dreary vocabulary and grammar exercises into fun activities, add a game-like element or an element of competition and get students to enthusiastically participate. Grids also offer interesting opportunities to practice speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in ways that engage the students.
This session is very much hands-on. You will try out a series of activities using grids in different ways and will leave the session empowered by these powergrids!

Biography

A gap year in the USA made Ada Peters a determined Anglophile. She embarked on a language and literature course at the University of Ghent and got a Master degree in English and Swedish. The first ten years of her career Ada taught English to the most diverse groups: adults at an elementary and advanced level, engineers, hostesses and facility managers. The last 20 years she has been the English lecturer at the teacher training department of Kaho Sint-Lieven, now Odisee UC, on Campus Waas in Sint-Niklaas.

Speaker's institution

Odisee Campus Sint-Niklaas