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We believe that students learn best when a lesson combines engaging material that motivates with systematic and memorable exposure to language through a series of meaningful tasks. So Motivation, Memory and Meaning - 'the 3 Ms' - are our watchwords. In this highly practical session we will look at ways in which topics, texts and tasks can reflect these priorities and help you to prepare students better for the new Matura exam. The talk wil be illustrated with material taken from Pearson's new Matura Focus course.

Druga część tekstu o systemie testocentrycznym miała wyglądać zupełnie inaczej. Tekst napisałam już jakiś czas temu i podzieliłam go na dwie części. W połowie grudnia opublikowałam pierwszą, potem chciałam wstawić drugą. Taki był plan. Ale życie dopisało inny ciąg dalszy, którego w żaden sposób nie mogłam ani przewidzieć. Dlatego zmieniłam decyzję. W moim blogu jest to możliwe, w szkole nie. W tym miejscu dochodzimy do istoty obecnego systemu edukacynego, który nazywam testocentrycznym, a którego istotą jest brak elastyczności

Karolina Kotorowicz-Jasińska is a graduate from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Her teaching practice began for good when she was still a student and discovered that teaching English is great fun. Since then she has had an opportunity to work with different age groups at all proficiency levels. For many years Karolina was doing her best to unravel the mysteries of ELT methodology to students of the English departments in Lublin and Warsaw. She was a PhD student at Zakład Metodyki Nauczania Języka Angielskiego of MCSU and she is now busy working on her doctoral dissertation on academic listening and note-taking skills. Some time ago her career took an unexpected turn and so she became the English teacher of a bunch of lovable and smart kids at Canadian School of Warsaw.

Anna Parr-Modrzejewska is a graduate of Łódź University and a PhD student at Zakład Psycholingwistyki i Dydaktyki Języka Angielskiego where she is currently working on her dissertation on CLIL in early years education. She has been a dedicated teacher of all levels and age groups since 2001. Her favourite pupils however, are last year secondary school students preparing for their final exam. Anna has been working as a Director of Studies at Profi-Lingua language school in Łódź since 2005. At academic level Anna teaches practical English, translation and conversation but she specialises in introducing students to the enchanted world of language teaching and helping them understand that teachers change the world. Anna also has two BA diplomas, in Polish and in Early Years Education, which helps her understand the learning process, especially in children. Her professional interests include teacher training, exam courses and bilingual education.

Which Matura tasks do your students struggle with the most? How can we help them to improve in the areas they find most challenging, and at the same time encourage them feel positive about the process of preparing for Matura? Working with the most recent details of nationwide performance in the exam, this highly practical session will attempt to deal with these important questions. During the workshop, we will remind ourselves of some of the aspects of the new Matura format and task types, and see how the 3 Ms – Motivation, Memorisation and Meaningful context and practice can work together to prepare for a successful performance on the big day. The session will contain lots of easy to prepare practical ideas and tips, and will be illustrated with material taken from Pearson’s new Matura Focus course.

Grzegorz Śpiewak holds a double MA in English & Linguistics (University of Essex, UK and University of Warsaw) and a PhD in Linguistics (University of Warsaw 2000). He has been a lecturer at the institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw since 1992, Head ELT Consultant for Macmillan Polska, teacher trainer, methodology adviser, ELT materials' writer, former president of IATEFL-Poland, founder and president of DOS-Teacher Training Solutions.

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