In Customized Training Services we are getting ready for meeting the needs of the teachers of English who want to be ready for teaching in the 21st century. We offer a pleasant atmosphere where you can learn comfortably knowing that we will accompany and support your learning process to help you succeed.

Here is our latest agenda but if you form a group of 6 or more people you can ask for special schedules. Hope you find this useful.

Customized Training Services started in 2013 offering Preparation Courses for Cambridge English First (FCE at that time) and our TKT Young Learners Preparation Course. Since then we have widened our academic offer but kept the small number of participants per course to provide customized support.

Because of all of this and as the Academic Director, we feel really proud to announce that we are now an official Cambridge Preparation Centre and we promise to keep working with the same devotion and enthusiasm to help our colleagues meet their professional goals.

The Performers and Educational Plays

Last Thursday 2nd I had the pleasure to present an academic workshop on Educational Plays and their impact on English language learning. As we know, Educational Plays are created according to the age and the language level of the audience so The Performers have brought three plays for Elementary, Pre-Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate levels.

I had first met The Performers some years ago when I was President of the Peruvian Association of Teachers of English and we had organized one of our annual International Conferences. They were invited to perform for teachers of English who had come from different parts of the country to attend the Conference.

The Association does not exist anymore, many of the teachers have stopped teaching but very few have forgotten the Performers.

They are back in our country again and this time, "re-loaded" since besides the plays there is a whole pack of follow-up activities material, both printed and online that will allow teachers to include these Educational Plays in their Curriculum.

The Representatives of the Performers in Peru set up a warm gathering inviting a large group of teachers eager to know more about this outstanding group of artists and I felt really happy to have contributed with a little grain of sand to share information about The Performers´ wonderful work.

I would love to share the Prezi presentation I prepared for you to appreciate some of the activities if you follow the link.

 

More Facebook Events

Our last FB event was held on May 14th and we developed two workshops: Teaching Grammar Differently and Teaching the HOTS. We also introduced working in stations for the HOTS activities and it was a real blast to see teachers so focused and involved in the activities.

Our VII FB event was also special because it was the last time at NUTESA Auditorium. We cannot thank them enough for hosting all these events providing not only the premises but also the book fair , snacks and refreshments for the coffee break and prizes for the raffle. Above all we would like to thank NUTESA and Ms. Maricarmen Rosas, their Marketing Manager for their trust and support .

CTS will keep offering FB events because every time we have more and more attendees. In this last event we had almost 40% new participants and the usual “caseritos” who have been with us since CTS started in 2013. We have plans for holding some FB events in the Provinces attending requests from teachers who came from Huancayo, Tarapoto, Ayacucho not only for the Facebook events but also for our Summer Courses.

Thank you very much, your attendance to our events really motivate us to be better and to keep working to support teachers in our ELT community.

VI Facebook Event






 VII Facebook Event

TACKLING TYPICAL GRAMMAR PROBLEMS

We  have now finished the third module of this course and the results could not have been more successful.

The purpose of the course is to help learners overcome some fossilized grammatical mistakes and/or raise awareness of some special cases that sometimes occur in even well-known structures.

Some sessions start with an activity based on a Use of English task and others go straight into understanding the structure and use of the Grammatical structure and then developing activities to put this knowledge into practice. The activities are not only sentences in a worksheet but also situations where students need to use what they have revised.

For instance, in the case of Reported Speech, students pretend they are at a party, they are given slips with some statements they need to say while mingling with the other guests while listening to some party music and then they have to report what they heard in the party.

To practise verbs and adjectives followed by prepositions we  use a game where students form groups and a member of the opposite group has to pick up cards with sentences where the preposition is missing. If they provide the right preposition,the score a point and can make their teams win.

Many people think learning Grammar is boring but in CTS we tried to make it useful and enjoyable and since the group was really small, we managed to make it really customized for participants´particular problems.

It feels good to hear from the participants that the course was good and useful and that they wanted more.

See you in the next course!!

FACEBOOK EVENTS

Customized Training Services (CTS) organizes Academic events for all our followers at very reduced prices. There are two ninety-minute-workshops on topics that have been suggested by CTS users, which I find really useful since it is the teachers themselves who require the topics they need.

Another reason why I look forward to these events is that we have the chance to gather teachers from different backgrounds who happily share and exchange ideas making this gathering a very enriching experience not only for them but also for me since this keeps me aware of the needs and the achievements of our teaching community.

The Fifth Facebook event last year coincided with the closing of CTS Academic Year and Christmas so there were many reasons for celebrating and being merry.

I am sharing an overview of the event in this video:

Happy New Year to all my friends. Long life and prosperity to you all.