The British Council and Cambridge English Language Assessment round up their highly successful Open Seminars with over 500 participants in Athens and Thessaloniki
Held on 15 and 19 February 2013, a series of open seminars organised by the British Council and Cambridge English Language Assessment, came to a successful conclusion once more with the integrity and quality that has always characterised these teacher training events.
The seminars offered a wealthy schedule, focusing on Cambridge English’s "New Assessment Criteria for Writing (B1 – C2), the New CPE Part 1 Writing Task and the Writing Paper for the FCE for Schools, and were another great opportunity for both organisations to communicate directly with teachers and provide interesting feedback on these two pinnacle Cambridge English exams. Conducted by Olga Leondaris, Client Relationship Officer for Cambridge English Language Assessment South East Europe (SEE), they further presented teachers with practical ideas for classroom teaching, thorough guidelines on marking and candidate performance as well as features of the unified mark scheme in relation to Cambridge English B1-C2 examinations.
“The British Council Seminar Experience
…it is always a lovely surprise when seminars provide teachers with information and techniques that can find their way into a classroom and can help prepare students for exams. Such an experience was the British Council seminar I attended recently. It was very interesting and well presented and I left the venue feeling that I could really use the information I had just been exposed to, to improve both my teaching and my students’ exam preparation.
Thank you very much for a high quality experience, but then again I expected nothing less from the British Council.”
Natasa Aslanidou
BA English Language and Literature
MA TESOL
The British Council and Cambridge English Language Assessment will continue and broaden the scope of their seminar programme, with the plan to offer student seminars to candidates who register for the Cambridge English Exams through the British Council. Candidates will receive their invitations in April 2013.
The British Council has been providing Cambridge English Language Assessment exams in Greece for more than 45 years. In addition it offers educational and training opportunities for teachers and school owners.
Cambridge English Language Assessment offers the world’s most valuable range of qualifications for learners and teachers of English. Over 3.3 million people take the Cambridge exams each year in more than 130 countries. Over 12,000 universities, employers, government ministries and other organisations around the world use Cambridge English qualifications as proof of English language ability.
