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  • Of Socks and Men

    • 27. September 2019
    • Posted by: Helta author
    • Category: HELTA news
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    This is Andrew writing about our event last Friday.

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  • Going Lexical

    • 16. September 2019
    • Posted by: Helta author
    • Category: HELTA news
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    This is Soph writing about last weekend’s HELTA Session on the Lexical Approach.

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  • Boy, did we exploit those images!

    • 23. June 2019
    • Posted by: Sarah Plochl
    • Category: HELTA news
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    Hi all,

    Writing this to share a few highlights from last weekend’s workshop event: “Exploiting Images” with Gabriel Clark.

    The bad news: for those of you who weren’t there – you missed a truly fantastic workshop!

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  • Transparency and Communication at HELTA

    • 15. June 2019
    • Posted by: Sarah Plochl
    • Category: From our members, HELTA news, Interviews
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    For those of you who were at the AGM in February, you know that there has been some discussion about the running of the organisation. Here are some of the points that were raised by former Vice-Chair Helen Waldron along with some comments from the (new) committee. We would like to hear

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  • Meet the new HELTA committee!

    • 15. June 2019
    • Posted by: Sarah Plochl
    • Category: From our members
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    Hi! The least interesting of all committee members (at least geographically), I hail from Hamburg. I’m a trainer and DoS at English Language Institute. I mostly teach in-company business classes and private students and am currently completing my Cambridge Diploma, Delta. I thin

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  • InterELTA

    • 15. June 2019
    • Posted by: Sarah Plochl
    • Category: HELTA news
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    Two weeks ago, these attractive individuals got together for the annual InterELTA meeting. InterELTA is the association of teaching associations in Germany that HELTA is a member of. Apart from us, there are six other ELTAs:

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  • The HELTA Interview Chain No. 4

    • 13. April 2019
    • Posted by: Helta author
    • Category: Interviews
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    Describe yourself in three words.
    Interested (in all things to do with English and teaching)/ pushy (a bit)/stickler (for detail especially when it comes to ‘follow the instructions’ (I know…I cheated – I used more than three words and didn’t follow the instructions – but I tried).

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  • Helta EAP Day 2019

    • 12. February 2019
    • Posted by: Sarah Plochl
    • Category: HELTA news
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    Another great event at HELTA!

    Last Saturday, we had a day of sessions on English for Academic Purposes with speakers Aymen Elsheikh (Texas A&M University at Qatar), Marina Marinova (University of Hamburg) and Daniel Xerri (University of Malta).

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  • Teachers 4 Schools Update

    • 5. December 2018
    • Posted by: Helta author
    • Category: HELTA news
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    At our English at Work Conference in September, HELTA members and guests raised over 500 Euros for the charity Teachers 4 Schools. We have just received these kind words from Modou Fadera, headmaster of Tujereng Lower Basic School in the Gambia:

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  • English at Work Conference 2018

    • 2. September 2018
    • Posted by: Sarah Plochl
    • Category: HELTA news
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    This beautiful Sunday finds the HELTA committee deeply exhausted but equally pleased with our event yesterday:

    The English at Work conference on 1 September in Hamburg at the Berufsschule für Medien und Kommunikation was by far the biggest event our organisation has ever put toget…

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