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Mark Hancock

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I got my first teaching job in 1984, working at a large boy's secondary school in El Obeid, Sudan. This experience made it very clear to me that there's a lot more to teaching English than just being able to speak the language!

Sentence Search

Friday - August 10th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
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This is a pronunciation game focusing on sentence stress patterns. In particular, it aims to raise awareness that pronouns and possessives are not normally stressed. If your students stress them my mistake, the listener will look for a contrastive meaning.

Listening Maze

Friday - August 10th, 2012
By: 
Mark Hancock
About us - hancockmcdonald.com/about-us
Words such as 'hard' and 'heart' are distinguished by the final consonant being voiced or devoiced (but note that the vowel sound is affected, so that it is longer before the voiced consonant eg in 'hard').

Dangerous Dictation no.3

Friday - August 10th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Pron-Puzzles - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/topic/pron-puzzles
The sign should of course read "No dogs allowed". But since what's actually on the sign is a perfect phrasal homophone, a transcriber is perfectly entitled to write it either way. Notice what this shows us about the pronunciation of "are" as nothing more than a schwa.
  • Pronunciation

Review: 13th BRAZ-TESOL National Convention "Proud to be"

Monday - August 6th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald
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BRAZ-TESOL holds a national conference every two years, and in July 2012, the event was held in Rio de Janeiro. It was truly a national event, with delegates coming from all over the country - and it's a big country, with some internal flights being several hours long.
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Mark in Sweden

Saturday - August 4th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Blog - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/67

Mark's talking about pronunciation as a listening skill at two events in Sweden in August, organized by the book distributor Utbildningsstaden. Details here.

  • Pronunciation

TESOL France

Saturday - August 4th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald
Event date: 
Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 14:00 to 16:45
Blog - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/130
We are presenting at TESOL France on Nov 17. Mark will speak at 14:00 on receptive pronunciation, Annie at 16:45 on authentic listening.

IATEFL Hungary

Saturday - July 28th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald
Event date: 
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 14:00 to Sunday, October 7, 2012 - 13:30
Blog - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/130

We are presenting at IATEFL Hungary in October. Here are the details:
Annie McDonald - Helping students become more effective listeners
Mark Hancock - Motivation: the inside story

IATEFL Poland

Saturday - July 28th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald
Blog - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/130

We will be presenting at IATEFL Poland in September. Here are the details:
Annie McDonald - Helping students become more effective listeners - Sept 8, 10:15
Mark Hancock - Pronunciation as a listening skill: understanding authentic English - Sept 8, 11:45

Bye bye Brazil

Friday - July 27th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald
Bye bye Brazil - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/bye-bye-brazil

We're busy adding material following the BRAZ-TESOL conference.The talks "Pronunciation games for Brazil" and "Silent Stories: using pictures in ELT" now include videos from audio files recorded at the event, and we are busily writing up summaries of various wor

BRAZ-TESOL: a talk on CEFR for teachers

Friday - July 20th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
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“Transforming the CEFR guidelines into teaching activities” (Janaina Pietroluongo) Janaina began by outlining what the Council of Europe is, as opposed to the European Commission. She went on to put forward the argument that was the main thrust of her talk: that it is a great mistake to view the CEFR as prescriptive. In fact, it is intended to be learner-centred.

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