Hello everyone …. Here are the face-to-face teacher workshops I will be running in July and August 2025. The full 2-week Performance and Storytelling workshop will be back at Bell Teacher Academy The popular Performance and Poetry at International House London will be at the end of July. The 2025 Oxford University Summer Seminar is ..read more

Hello everyone,  These are the teacher workshops I will be running in July and August 2024. Information and booking at the links. Hope to see you!  Adrian Cambridge: The Bell Teacher Academy Pronunciation, Performance and Poetry: Mon 15 –  Fri 19 July 2024 https://bellenglish.com/courses/pronunciation-performance-and-poetry-with-adrian-underhill/   Oxford University: English Language Teachers’ Summer Seminar Pronunciation, Performance and Poetry and Wellbeing in the Classroom: Sun 21 July – Sat 3 August 2024 Other workshops at this Seminar are offered by Jon Hird, Hani ..read more

Hello everyone, Here are the teacher workshops I will be running in July and August 2023. There is information at the links. If you come, let’s make sure we have some time together, good work and good conversation.  Hope to see you,  Adrian Pronunciation and storytelling: From phonemes to fluency.   3 – 14 July face to face at Bell Teacher Academy Cambridge.  https://www.bellenglish.com/courses/pronunciation-storytelling/ The English Language Teachers’ Summer Seminar   23 July – 5 August, face to face. At Oxford University. Tutors: Adrian Underhill, Jon ..read more

Hello everyone, Now that nothing is getting back to normal, I’d like to draw your attention to some unusually interesting and (I think) innovative summer teacher training programmes. There is full information at the links. If you decide to come, let’s make sure we have some time together and good conversations.  Hope to see you,   Adrian Training courses with Adrian Underhill, July – August 2022 Pronunciation and storytelling: From phonemes to fluency 3 July for 2 weeks face to face at Bell Teacher Academy Cambridge https://www.bellenglish.com/courses/pronunciation-storytelling ..read more

Banish the January Blues!  Join me for this 2-week online live workshop! Starting 18th January 2021, 2hrs per day for 10 days, total 20 hours. Lesson times 13.30 – 15.30 UK time.   Info and booking This experiential programme is for teachers, trainers, materials writers, and anyone who wishes to speak from the heart with impact, pleasure and clarity, and to help others do the same.  It is open to all users of English (min B2).   Info and booking Two parallel strands: Develop confidence in your own pronunciation of sounds, words and connected speech. Learn to sen ..read more

(Posted today on the OXFORD TEFL blog) See what’s going on, try something different, learn from it. That’s my teacher development mantra. You can use it anywhere and it applies to everything. Let’s start with the first bit: See what’s going on…. To follow our road to becoming the best teachers we can be, we need to question our beliefs and hidden assumptions, especially assumptions we have taken on board without realising, which, if left unseen, can skew our questions and actions. But becoming aware of one’s assumptions is not easy especially if those assumptions come as taken-for-granted hand ..read more

28th July 10.00am and 17.00pm UK time  The Bell Teacher Academy Webinar Series. Ten x 1 hour webinars starting 28 July and throughout August. Given by 8 different speakers Info and free registration here: https://www.bellenglish.com/bell-teacher-academy-webinar-series Webinar 1: July 28th Adrian Underhill    Pronunciation teaching doesn’t work because for 50 years the approach has been essentially cognitive, which may be fine for learning grammar and vocabulary, but pronunciation is muscular, like a subtle version of learning to dance. And the mastering of such physicality ..read more

Title: We’re All In This Together – Adrian Underhill Time: June 6, 2020 16:00 Buenos Aires, Georgetown Duration: 60 minutes Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82307699435?pwd=Q3BLdjY3ZS9vR2xVdTJzakdPUkg0dz09 Meeting ID: 823 0769 9435 Password: underhill ..read more

1. Online Interviews, discussions Teaching pronunciation remotely  – 6th June 2020 at 8.00pm BST.  Adrian Underhill in live interview with Alastair Grant, teacher and trainer in Buenos Aires: Live questions welcome. Join Zoom meeting. Open to all. No booking needed.  Meeting ID: 823 0769 9435  Password: underhill ELT post covid  – 12th June at 10.00am BST IATEFL.  LAMSIG online panel discussion. Chair: Liam Brown; Panel Members: Michelle Ocriciano, George Pickering, Adrian Underhill, plus one other. Open to all. Find link to Zoom room on the LAM SIG web page 2. Te ..read more

Today and Tomorrow 18 – 19 April 2020 This replaces the Annual IATEFL conference (in Manchester) which has been cancelled This two day online event – today and tomorrow – is free and open to non members Here is the link: https://www.iatefl.org/iatefl-global-get-together-2020 No registration is needed.The webinar room is open now After the event the sessions will be available in the members only area of the IATEFL website. See you there!   ..read more