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Drama from Nile’s Farmer stars at ESU Awards

By Melanie Butler
for teachers who want to learn a team of authors led by Dr Publishing was also named a
NILE Norwich were the first more about an area of interest. Joan Kang Shin and Dr Jo Ann runner up award, this time in
teacher training specialists to Made up of webinars and on-line Crandall. the category of Secondary and
win an English Speaking Union workshops, Power Up courses Not content with one prize, Adult Resources. Their entry
English Language Award at the are designed to take teachers National Geographic Learning went by the intriguingly titled
biennial prize ceremony held at around five hours a week for also went off with the President’s Only the Best Intentions by Alice
Dartmouth House, London in three weeks. Award for New Technology Savage.
November. Ironically, Farmer, who has in Language Teaching with its Last but not least, the
David Farmer, founder of the collaborated on face-to-face hugely popular Learn English indefatigable Mark Hancock
Tiebreak Theatre Company NILE courses for many years, with TED Talks, pipping News and his British Council ELTon
which toured the UK and abroad initially turned down the idea of Review from BBC Learning winning team with their best-
for 35 years, and now runs www. working on-line ‘because drama English to the technology post. selling Pron Pack were runners
dramaresource.com, collected is all about live interaction!’ The award for Resources up in the Resources for Teachers
the ESU prize for Resources for ‘It was incredibly gratifying for Young Learners went to category.
Teachers, for the on-line training to receive this recognition Oxford University Press for
course Power Up: Drama Games for the course and for drama the intriguingly named Mouse
in Language Teaching. teaching,’ Farmer commented and Me whose authorial line up JOHANNA STIRLING
The course forms part of after receiving the award. ‘We’ve includes Jennifer Dobson, Alicia
the new NILE Power Up on- only been running the course for Vazquez, Mary Charrington,
line training suite, designed a few months and I think we’ve Charlotte Colville and Matthew
just begun to scratch the surface Davidson.
of what can be achieved.’ Yellow House English was
National Geographic Learning runner up in that category for
was the other big winner at the its Universal Pre-School English
2018 awards. The publisher Course by Claire Selby, just one
won the prize for Resources for of the smaller publishing houses
Secondary to Adult Learners to make it into second place. NILE’s David Farmer
with its Impact series, featuring Small publisher Alphabet through the looking glass

Professional Award for

Teacher Educators

• Recognised by the British Council as a
certification of teacher training competence

• Delivered by NILE in a two-week programme
with integrated assessment, January and
July 2019

Developed by British Council and delivered by NILE’s experts
in language teacher development, to develop, measure and
validate the competences required for planning and running
in-service and pre-service language teacher education programmes.
www.nile-elt.com/pate

www.nile-elt.com

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