Events

Prague — where great ideas meet great teaching A 5-day teacher training week for English conversation teachers who want a real framework – not just a bag of activities. You will experience the full Skills for Success programme yourself first, from teambuilding and critical thinking all the way to a competitive debate. Then you learn how to teach every step of it. You leave with 16 ready-to-use lessons and the confidence to run them. 📅 17–21 August 2026 📍 Prague, Czech Republic 👥 Maximum 14 participants 💶 €550 per teacher — Erasmus+ eligible 👉 Find out more and register

OUP August Conference – Brno 26 August 2026 This summer I am presenting at the Oxford University Press “For the Love of Teaching” conference in Brno. The same session also runs in Prague the following day, on 27 August. My session is called They Think It’s Just a Game and it is about exactly that: how simple classroom activities secretly build the thinking, speaking and listening skills students need to argue clearly and confidently. No debate experience needed – just a willingness to let your classroom get a little noisy. All activities come straight from my 8-lesson classroom programme. You

OUP August Conference – Prague 27 August 2026 This summer I am presenting at the Oxford University Press “For the Love of Teaching” conference in Prague. The same session also runs in Brno the previous day, on 26 August. My session is called They Think It’s Just a Game and it is about exactly that: how simple classroom activities secretly build the thinking, speaking and listening skills students need to argue clearly and confidently. No debate experience needed – just a willingness to let your classroom get a little noisy. All activities come straight from my 8-lesson classroom programme. You