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- CAA English
- Chaves and Vila Real, Portugal
- CAA English is a private language school in the north of Portugal specialized in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language/TEFL. This blog has been created for us at CAA English to share our news, and for our students and teachers to share their work online. We welcome our followers to give suggestions and to comment. Thanks for your visit.
Monday, May 10, 2010
FCE and CAE Results
The FCE and CAE results are out and we have had an approval rate of 100% again! Congratulations to all our students from Vila Real and Chaves and to all their teachers as well! Good job, everyone!
Sunday, May 09, 2010
APPI Conference in Guimarães, Portugal
Last weekend--30th April, 1st and 2nd May-- most CAA directors and staff went to the APPI 24th Conference in Guimarães, north of Portugal. The Conference theme was "Highlighting key skills in Language Learning."
A lot of famous EFL/ELT names were present: David Crystal, Scott Thornbury and Carol Read, among many others (go to the APPI site for the complete list of speakers--see below on this blog).
As usual, this conference was very well organized and the organizers managed to bring some important names in our field to Guimarães.We greatly enjoyed hearing Professor David Crystal's opening session on Advanced Conversational English: fact or fiction(1st plenary session). Professor David is such a entertaining and thought-provoking lecturer!
We also took part in many inspiring workshops that kept us very active physically as well as mentally during the three-day conference.
It was also very nice to be able to net-work with some of our friends and colleagues attending or presenting at the conference.
In between sessions we also had a chance to look at the books and ELT materials brought to the conference by the various publishing companies-Oxford, Cambridge, MacMillan, Porto Editora and others. Lots of goodies handed out by all the publishers.
Simphonia das Letras, Ricardo's bookshop, did a great job at Appi. So many new books and teaching materials, including hand puppets. Lots of readers for the younger crowd as well. It was hard to resist.
MacmIllan's puppets for the Bug books were also so cute! Thank you, Frank! We were sorry that Jane Harding had an accident and could not present "Snug as a bug in a rug (Bugs World). However, we want to congratulate the MacMillan team for getting Carol Read to make an emergency presentation in Jane's place.
Attending the APPI Conference--an yearly event--is a must for any English teacher who wants to keep up with what is happening in the world of EFL/ELT.
I hope the next APPI conference will not be too far away from us (Chaves and Vila Real!)
Túlia Vogensen
A lot of famous EFL/ELT names were present: David Crystal, Scott Thornbury and Carol Read, among many others (go to the APPI site for the complete list of speakers--see below on this blog).
As usual, this conference was very well organized and the organizers managed to bring some important names in our field to Guimarães.We greatly enjoyed hearing Professor David Crystal's opening session on Advanced Conversational English: fact or fiction(1st plenary session). Professor David is such a entertaining and thought-provoking lecturer!
We also took part in many inspiring workshops that kept us very active physically as well as mentally during the three-day conference.
It was also very nice to be able to net-work with some of our friends and colleagues attending or presenting at the conference.
In between sessions we also had a chance to look at the books and ELT materials brought to the conference by the various publishing companies-Oxford, Cambridge, MacMillan, Porto Editora and others. Lots of goodies handed out by all the publishers.
Simphonia das Letras, Ricardo's bookshop, did a great job at Appi. So many new books and teaching materials, including hand puppets. Lots of readers for the younger crowd as well. It was hard to resist.
MacmIllan's puppets for the Bug books were also so cute! Thank you, Frank! We were sorry that Jane Harding had an accident and could not present "Snug as a bug in a rug (Bugs World). However, we want to congratulate the MacMillan team for getting Carol Read to make an emergency presentation in Jane's place.
Attending the APPI Conference--an yearly event--is a must for any English teacher who wants to keep up with what is happening in the world of EFL/ELT.
I hope the next APPI conference will not be too far away from us (Chaves and Vila Real!)
Túlia Vogensen
Saturday, May 08, 2010
PET results
Friday, 7 May 2010
PET Results: CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to all our students who took the PET ESOL Exam at the British Council in Porto in March and passed. The approval rate was of 100% for both Chaves and Vila Real.
Good job!
The CAA Team
PET Results: CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to all our students who took the PET ESOL Exam at the British Council in Porto in March and passed. The approval rate was of 100% for both Chaves and Vila Real.
Good job!
The CAA Team
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
There was an election at CAA English in Vila Real to choose the new president of Yuristan (an imaginary country invented by teacher Yuri Vogensen). Groups of students created political parties for Yuristan and posters were posted all over the school for the political campaign. Votes were counted today and the results have just come out.
So, the official results for the 2010 Yuristanese Presidential elections are as follows:
P.A.Y Party- Dr. Diogo Gomes 31%
Holy Party - Prof. Simão Amaral 19%
H.P. Party -Dr Rodrigo Santos 13.5%
P.Y.P.S Prof. Jorge Cardoso 10.8%
Therefore, the next President of Yuristan will be DR. DIOGO GOMES! He will serve a one-year term.
Posted by CAA English at 14:07
There was an election at CAA English in Vila Real to choose the new president of Yuristan (an imaginary country invented by teacher Yuri Vogensen). Groups of students created political parties for Yuristan and posters were posted all over the school for the political campaign. Votes were counted today and the results have just come out.
So, the official results for the 2010 Yuristanese Presidential elections are as follows:
P.A.Y Party- Dr. Diogo Gomes 31%
Holy Party - Prof. Simão Amaral 19%
H.P. Party -Dr Rodrigo Santos 13.5%
P.Y.P.S Prof. Jorge Cardoso 10.8%
Therefore, the next President of Yuristan will be DR. DIOGO GOMES! He will serve a one-year term.
Posted by CAA English at 14:07
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