Slide 1 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! It’s one year since I started to teach free Talk a Lot lessons online, so now is a great time to look back and celebrate a whole year of free English lessons with English Banana.com!
During this special lesson we will:
* look back at memorable lessons from the past year
* hear testimonials from regular students
* explore how the lessons and podcasts are put together
* find out what the process of teaching online means to me
* look forward to what’s in store in future lessons
* PLUS! Some extra special surprises...! http://www.englishbanana.com 1st Anniversary of Free Online Lessons!
Saturday 19th June 2010 – 4 PM (CET)
Slide 2 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! During the past year:
50+ free online lessons
50 free downloadable podcasts (50-60 mins)
It’s an average of 1 free lesson per week (with 2 weeks’ holiday!)
Books published:
Talk a Lot Elementary Book 3 (423 pages – free download)
Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 (Units 1 & 2 – 63 pages each) http://www.englishbanana.com
Slide 3 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! http://www.englishbanana.com WIZIQ.com
Jun-Aug 2009 &
Jan-Jun 2010 eduFire.com
Aug-Dec 2009
Slide 4 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! A Few Memorable Lessons from the Past Year:
12th June 2009
Talk a Lot Free Spoken English Course : Vocabulary : Discussion Words : Music (WIZIQ.com)
http://www.englishbanana.com/podcasts/talk-a-lot-lesson-1-discussion-words-music.mp3
20th July 2009
Talk a Lot : Sentence Stress and Connected Speech : Lesson 2 : Transport (WIZIQ.com)
http://www.englishbanana.com/podcasts/talk-a-lot-lesson-9-sentence-stress-and-connected-speech-2-transport.mp3 http://www.englishbanana.com
Slide 5 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! A Few Memorable Lessons from the Past Year:
2nd September 2009
Talk a Lot : The Big Word Game : Round 1 (eduFire.com)
http://www.englishbanana.com/podcasts/talk-a-lot-lesson-16-the-big-word-game-round-1.mp3
8th October 2009
How to Pronounce “th” in English (eduFire.com)
http://www.englishbanana.com/podcasts/talk-a-lot-lesson-22-pronounce-th-sounds-in-english.mp3 http://www.englishbanana.com
Slide 6 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! A Few Memorable Lessons from the Past Year:
28th March 2010
The Story of a Music Group : ESL Lesson Plan Demo (WIZIQ.com)
http://www.englishbanana.com/podcasts/talk-a-lot-lesson-36-the-story-of-a-music-group-lesson-plan.mp3
28th March 2010
Learn English Idioms and Slang via The Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1 (WIZIQ.com)
http://www.englishbanana.com/podcasts/talk-a-lot-lesson-37-scott-mills-show-english-idioms-phrasal-verbs-slang.mp3 http://www.englishbanana.com
Slide 7 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! First things first… http://www.englishbanana.com
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A very, very big… http://www.englishbanana.com
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A very, very big… http://www.englishbanana.com
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A very, very big…
THANK YOU! http://www.englishbanana.com
Slide 11 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! First things first…
A very, very big…
THANK YOU!
To all of my online students during the past year 2009-10 http://www.englishbanana.com
Slide 12 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! First things first…
A very, very big…
THANK YOU!
To all of my online students during the past year 2009-10
Without you there would’ve been 0 lessons! http://www.englishbanana.com
Slide 13 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! Testimonials from Regular Students: http://www.englishbanana.com/nadias-testimonial-17062010.jpg From Nadia (Russia): “Learning with Matt is so relaxing, it looks as if you gain the knowledge of such complicated things like phrasal verbs, political correctness language and idioms almost without any efforts. You become more and more proficient, your level of expertise is raised by Matt so that you don’t notice when and how…
“It is valuable for me to attend Matt’s classes and learn his methodology, learn how to use his materials, learn various forms and methods of working with EFL students. The experience is priceless. I view Matt’s classes as in-service training course as well. It is a unique chance to have such highly qualified teacher trainer.”
Slide 14 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! http://www.englishbanana.com/merves-testimonial-17062010.jpg From Merve (Turkey): "The thing that I love about Matthew's classes [is] that they are full of English. They are not classes that we only listen to some English, but we talk and discuss... He's quick to spot mistakes, and never lazy about correcting them, which makes him an invaluable teacher in my opinion..."
Slide 15 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! http://www.englishbanana.com Selected feedback from WIZIQ.com:
Slide 16 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! http://www.englishbanana.com From eduFire.com:
Slide 17 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! http://www.englishbanana.com Your feedback: What have you learned from studying English online with Matt?
2. Has your level of English improved? How?
3. What moments do you particularly remember from the past year of free lessons?
4. What would you like to do more of in future lessons?
5. Do you have any other comments about the free Talk a Lot lessons?
Slide 18 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! The Journey of a Podcast –
From Lesson Idea to Podcast in your Ears! http://www.englishbanana.com 1. Inspiration strikes!
Slide 19 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 2. Set up the lesson
Slide 20 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 3. Check the details
Slide 21 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 4. Invite contacts
Slide 22 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 5. Promote…
Slide 23 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 6. Promote…
Slide 24 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 7. …and Promote Some More!
Slide 25 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 8. Teach the lesson
Slide 26 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 9. Check feedback
Slide 27 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 10. Record and edit the audio
Slide 28 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 11. Edit the .xml feed
Slide 29 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 12. Check the
podcast details
Slide 30 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 13. Upload the .mp3 file to our server
Slide 31 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 14. Check that the feed is right…
Slide 32 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! 15. …and that it works on iTunes. Finally, have a listen!
Slide 33 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! Top 7 Problems for an Online Teacher:
Audio not synced in the lesson or on the podcast
No recording = no permanent resource after the class
Technical problems with the audio / video / connection
Students making inappropriate comments!
Students appear to wander in and out of the class
(e.g. if the connection is lost)
6. Noisy neighbours and distractions during the lesson!
7. Forgetting what time I’d scheduled the lesson for…! http://www.englishbanana.com
Slide 34 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! Teaching online is really valuable for me… I can:
Try out new materials and get feedback about what works… and what doesn’t work. It forces you to work to a deadline ?
Practise and improve – both as a teacher and a writer
Meet new people and make friends with students and teachers online
Receive support that didn’t exist before ?
Learn from others
Promote English Banana.com, Talk a Lot, and our unique offer (1,500+ Free Printable Worksheets; Free Copying Licence and Free Licence to Run Courses, etc.). Podcast gets up to 4,000 listeners per week worldwide
Find paying students (occasionally!)
Slide 35 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! What’s in Store in the Future?
We’ll continue to follow the Talk a Lot Intermediate syllabus:
Unit 2: Problems (due to be completed in August 2010)
Possible future units in this series:
Amazing Lives, British History, Space, Art
Your suggestion…!
Special one-off topics:
New pronunciation topics, e.g. “How to Pronounce -th Sounds”
Cultural events, e.g. World Cup 2010
Slide 36 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! Surprise #1…!
Download the first 15 .mp3 lessons in a single .zip file!
Available to download now:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nonoxgqumt2
Slide 37 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! Surprise #2…!
Brand new regular podcast:
Available to download now:
http://www.englishbanana.com/10-english-idioms-in-10-minutes-free-podcast.html
Slide 38 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! Final Thought
http://www.englishbanana.com/podcasts/teaching-esl-using-talk-a-lot-ray-connors.mp3
http://profraysonlineenglishacademy.blogspot.com/
Ray Connors encouraged me and inspired me to try... Thanks a lot, Ray. It’s helped me a lot. It’s given me so much.
If you have benefited from my lessons in any way over the past year, you need to thank Ray. ? I ran EB.com for 6.5 years without feeling the need to teach online.
But I’m so glad I got started!
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/144479-Teaching-ESL-using-the-TALK-A-LOT-curriculum
Slide 39 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! Testimonials: http://www.englishbanana.com/rays-testimonial-20062010.jpg From Ray Connors (Vietnam): “Regarding the Talk a Lot program, as you know I have been an avid fan as a teacher for a while now, and I have recently been involved in introducing it as the primary learning source for teens and adults in 2 centres in the south of Vietnam…
“Introducing it has seen great benefits to the centre as it has set it apart from the run of the mill centres which all use the same Cutting Edge, Gateways etc. that everyone has flogged to death … It has been very successful for both centres, and they unfortunately don't use it in its entirety, but are able to extract what they do need, and the students really seem to like how it works…”
Slide 40 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! Final Thought
My challenge to you today:
Can I encourage you to teach online?
Could you teach online?
Everybody’s an expert in something. What are YOU an expert in? What are you passionate about?
Could you share your expertise and your passion?
Could you learn to teach others? Could somebody benefit from your work? Could you be on WIZIQ.com as a teacher? If not, why not? ?
Remember: you don’t have to be PERFECT when you start!
“I haven’t always known what I know now… I had to learn it.”
Keep going – regular workouts strengthen your muscles!
Just do it!
Slide 41 : Celebrating One Year of Free Online Lessons! Thanks for coming! http://www.englishbanana.com