Moscow Time;Presentation

08:00 - 08:10;Welcome 08:10 - 08:40;<b>Aida Tarankova</b> <br><i>Using Montessori principles in teaching very young learners reading and writing </i><br>Can your students read and write at the age of 4 or 5? If this questions stuns you and you have never though about early developing of reading and writing skills in your students, then in this talk you will find out how to do that. Aida will share her own experience of teaching very young learners reading and writing. She will talk about effective ways to do that using one of the Montessori principles of global reading. She will demonstrate materials and give examples of practical activities you can do with little ones to help them start reading and writing. You will also see short videos of Aida's lessons as she does these activities with her students.;Young Learners 08:40 - 08:45;<b>Break</b> 08:45 - 09:15;<b>Viktoriya Voytsekhovskaya</b> <br><i>Meme, cringe, crash or how to make topics relevant for the student </i><br>It often seems to us teachers that teenagers speak a different language. It is said that they are interested in something weird and even stupid sometimes. And it is thought that a teacher can go crazy from the words that teenagers constantly use in their speech. And students often nag that they are bored from the usual topics in a student’s book. I will tell you how to understand your teenage students and how to make a usual topic from a student’s book relevant for students. And if they are interested, they will speak without a stop!; Teens 09:15 - 09:25;<b>Break</b> 09:25 - 09:55;<b>Lira Karabeinikova</b> <br><i> Preschoolers online? Nobody likes distance learning, especially kids!</i><br>That's what I thought before I tried it. But HOW can we keep and hold a three-year-old's attention? How to get them speaking English at their homes next to their Russian-speaking mums? Lira will share her own experience of teaching very young learners online. She will demonstrate the ways to overcome the difficulties and give examples of practical activities you can do with little ones.; Young Learners 09:55 - 10:25;<b>Happy Hour</b> 10:25 - 10:55;<b>Maria Vavilova</b> <br><i>Addressing 21st century skills in the very young learners classroom</i><br>During the talk we will discuss some simple activities that will contribute to the students' self-exploration, inquiry, and discovery and provide young learners with the opportunity to develop their creativity and critical abilities by making new connections to the acquired knowledge.; Young Learners 10:55 - 11:00;<b>Break</b> 11:00 - 11:45;<b>Michelle Jagger</b> <br> <i>The importance of reading and how to encourage reluctant readers in the ELT classroom</i><br>In this webinar, our Educational Consultant Michelle Jagger will look at the importance of reading in English learning, and look at practices to improve reading skills both in and outside the ELT classroom. Using examples from the DELTA Graded Readers and DELTA Team Readers series, Michelle will show how you can encourage even the most reluctant teen readers, through engaging and relevant storylines with differentiation built-in. The aim is to make reading a pleasurable experience for all students. ;Teens 11:45 - 11:55;<b>Break</b> 11:55 - 12:40;<b>Battle: Maria Tsoy vs Anita Modestova</b><br><i>To use or not to use native language at English lessons?</i><br>Maria supports the idea of English only in class in the battle, Anita supports the idea of Native language can be used in class. 12:40 - 12:50;<b>Break</b> 12:50 - 13:35;<b>Olha Madylus</b> <br><i> Developing Listening and Speaking Skills for Communication and Fun</i><br>Young children do not find it easy to use English to communicate in the classroom, as their mother tongue comes far more naturally and easily. This presentation explores the challenges teachers and learners face in developing listening and speaking skills at this age and offers practical solutions to overcome these challenges and build habits which ensure children use English to communicate. Classroom routines, strategies and activities will be presented and analysed. Teachers will leave with practical ideas to take straight back to their classrooms.; Young Learners 13:35 - 13:45;<b>Break</b> 13:45 - 14:00;<b>Elena Peresada</b> <br><i>Why gamification doesn’t work in the classroom</i><br>Today gamification is a buzz word. A big problem with gamification is that most people just think about it as adding some points, badges and a leaderboard, which is not true gamification. In my talk I’ll demonstrate the difference between gamification and pointification. I’ll give a step-by-step scheme of how to develop a working gamification frame and solve problems you face in your classroom;Teens 14:00 - 14:05;<b>Break</b> 14:05 - 14:50;<b>Failure Talks: Tatiana Fanshtein, James Egerton, Eugenia Denisova, Oksana Yaverbaum</b> 14:50 - 14:55;<b>Break</b> 14:55 - 15:25;<b>Happy Hour</b> 15:25 - 15:30;<b>Break</b> 15:30 - 16:15;<b>Neil Anderson</b><br><i> Task-based Learning Online: Teaching Teenagers </i><br>Task-based Learning (TBL), also known as Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), is experiencing renewed interest decades after it first gained attention. In this session we will review what is and what is not a “task” according to established criteria. We will explore the benefits of the approach both in general and more specifically for promoting engaging, meaningful and communicative lessons when teaching online, as part of this we will look at some example online lesson ideas that participants can readily use with their teenage learners. In particular, participants will take away practical ideas for how to use Google Jamboard to facilitate engaging, communicative task-based lessons.;Teens 16:20 - 16:30;<b>Break</b> 16:30 - 17:00;<b>Natalia Ivanova</b> <br><i>A lesson created by students: myth or reality </i><br> We teachers bring lots of interesting activities in class as we think. Some of the tasks work well, but others not. As a result students are not engaged 100% into the learning process and it results in different cases of misbehavior and lack of motivation. What can we do keep students' attention without entertaining them all the time? The answer is easy. Let them construct their own activities or even a lesson plan. I will provide you some ideas how to do it;Teens 17:00 - 17:05; <b>Break</b> 17:05 - 17:35; <b>Rob Howard </b> <br><i>Student-made video projects to enhance speaking and soft skills</i> <br> Most teens today are well versed at producing videos for social media. This is an important soft skill for the future and should be developed and practiced. Since 2007, I have been using student-made video projects to stimulate teenaged students to plan, script, film and present a variety of videos that have increased oral production, confidence, and fluency through out-of-class assignments with varied subjects. This talk will outline the methodology, implementation, and benefits. This project is perfect for face-2-face and online classes as the student work is done outside of the classroom. Examples will be shown. ;Teens 17:35 - 18:00; Closing