About the speaker:
Alina Stukova is a self-employed online English teacher (CAE, CELTA, TKT Modules 1-3, with 6 years teaching experience). Previously taught preschoolers, was Director of Studies in a private English Moscow preschool. Currently living abroad and focusing on teaching adults online.

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In search of collocations: resources and methods
Do your students know how to search for collocations? Or is Google Translate the only tool they know? I'll show different online resources that I find very practical and can't imagine my life without as a non-native English speaker. Then I'll demonstrate how to use them effectively. Last but not least, I'll illustrate what helps me to persuade my adult students to use them too.

About the speaker:
Having graduated from linguistic department, Mariya embarked on the career of an English teacher in 2019, which she immensely loves. Being a holder of TKT certificates, she now works mainly with adults including IT specialists both online and offline.

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I wish I knew about the pricniples of creating revision/recycling activities
I'd like to present a short overview on the set of revision/recycling activities I use nowadays, which really help my students to memorize target lexis and grammar better and talk about main principles that can ease the process of creating such activities.

About the speaker:
Ekaterina is an English teacher who graduated from the Pedagogical University with a degree in Linguistics.


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Getting the most out of reading texts: mining for vocabulary
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About the speaker:
Anastasia is a self-employed English teacher with 6 years of experience. She holds CAE language certificate and has completed the course "IH Certificate in Advanced Methodology". She now teaches mini-groups and B2-C1 students: General English classes, CAE exam prep and Speaking Clubs for higher levels.

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Teachers and learners' misconceptions about writing
Many teachers have strong reservations about teaching writing. There is a widespread belief that it is time-consuming, boring, useless for real life, uncommunicative, and should be better set as homework. Students seem to be disencouraged by writing too, since many of them believe that writing calls for an innate talent. In my presentation, I'm going to tackle this common misconception by sharing how writing has become a pleasant experience both for me and for my students. By the end of the talk, we will have explored how writing can make its way into our regular teaching practice in an optimized, effective and engaging way.

About the speaker:
Alena is a Cambridge certified teacher with 8 years of experience. She holds CELT-S, TKT, TESOL and mostly teach children and adults General English or English for specific needs.

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How to make A0/A1 students speak
The session is going to be devoted to the speaking which seems to be struggling for many students who only start learning English. More than that, I'd like to provide activities which I used on my classes with beginners (adults and kids) that keep them motivated and break the barrier to speak. These activities are both based on students books or tailor-made by me.

About the speaker:
Yuliya is a passionate TESOL-certified teacher with a bachelor's degree in Education and 8+ years of experience educating students of different ages and levels of English.

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Making reluctant teenage students read
Our attention span has markedly decreased in just 15 years, which has taken a heavy toll on reading skills. I've come across so many teenagers who are able to read, but not comprehend. I noticed two main problems: First, in an online classroom students get easily distracted and just zoom out when it comes to reading a large piece of a text (more than 10 – 12 sentences). Second, once you ask students to scratch beneath the surface, they look confused and don't know what to say because there's not a straight answer in the text. In my speech I'm planning to talk about the ways I've used to keep teenagers focused when reading and mention some critical thinking techniques.

About the speaker:
Tamara is a self-employed teacher working online. She graduated from Moscow Teacher Training University, holds CAE. She has completed a 3-month course in IH-BKC (Language and Methodology).

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I wish I knew about Concept Checking Questions before
I'm going to give a talk on CCQs and how they transformed the way I teach students. It was a real eye-opener for me when once I've known about this method of checking to what extend my students understand grammar structures and vocabulary. I wish I knew it before! And it still sometimes remains challenging to find proper CCQs. That's why I suppose this topic might spark teachers interest and desire to get know about it.

About the speaker:
Yekaterina graduated from the pedagogical institute in 2013. She has been teaching English for around 6 years now, she found her first students thanks to putting ads on entrances of the nearest houses, then worked inSkyEng and finally is working at an online school. She specializes in one-to-one ESP and general English lessons.

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I wish I knew about these features of ESP lessons
This talk is going to be about how to prepare for lessons for students who have specific aims and how to understand what materials to use. I will also show some parts of my lessons briefly.

About the speaker:
Teona is an English teacher of adults with more than 10 years' experience.

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The First Class activities
In my talk I'll share my favorite first class activities. We will also discuss what makes first classes special and how we can prepare for our first lessons with new students.

About the speaker:
Alexandra has been teaching English for 13 years and during this time she always wanted to get different kind of experience of teaching as her life motto is "Never stand still". But what she is always passionate about is building rapport with students.

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I wish I knew these tips to create a relaxed environment
I strongly believe that the rapport between a teacher and a student is a significant factor in overall learning. In my session I am going to share some ideas that helped me to create a relaxed environment which increased students participation in the lesson, minimized anxiety and fostered a positive mindset in the class.

About the speaker:
Rita is a creative teacher of English with 7 years of experience. She enjoys teaching teens and adults (A2-C1 levels). Rita never ceases to improve her teaching skills and command of the language.

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Using board games to enhance language learning
Not so long ago I started playing board games with my students in English. I was surprised how much of learning potential it has. So I want to share my tips how to make it more communicative and what games to choose.

About the speaker:
Anna is an English teacher. She has been teaching children and adults for 5 years.

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How to set professional boundaries for a teacher
It is true that learning how to set and keep healthy boundaries is an essential part of working as a teacher. It is easy to end up saying "yes" to every request. But is this always what you are interested in? Setting boundaries can help you find a balance which includes professional performance and self-care to avoid stress and burnout. In my talk I'm going to be talking about how we can set professional boundaries.

About the speaker:
Alyona has been teaching young learners since 2011, she teaches groups of up to 8 students offline and is trying to make her classroom a better place.

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I wish I knew how autonomous and self-reflective my younger students are
I want to give a talk on how I stopped being an overprotective and anxious teacher trying to pre-empty all possible problems my YL might face. Being overprotective and anxious turned out to be not only extremely tiring for me as a teacher, but also depriving my learners of the area of potential growth. I also would like to talk on the role of self-reflection and share how we work with learner diaries and how it all contributes to learners' autonomy and self esteem.

About the speaker:
Mariia is a self-employed online English tutor with 7 years of beautiful experience. Teaching for Russian state exams and general English (B1+).

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Why I want to fight toxic productivity
My talk is going to be about this rat rush and toxic productivity being thriving and encouraged among teachers in our community. I want to point out some key issues, consequences and possible ways of getting away from it all.

About the speaker:
Rumiia is an online English teacher and teacher trainer. She has a blog where she shares her career path and her ideas with colleagues.

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Lessons based on the cartoons
I'm going to talk about lesson planning on the base of cartoons - stages, methods, techniques. I am about to show some activities which teachers can use in their classes.

About the speaker:
Natalia is a CELTA - certified English teacher and methodologist with 9 years of experience. She's worked in a language centre, as a university teacher and as a material developer for an online educational platform. She teaches both groups and individual learners of all levels and age groups (except for YL).

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Spicing up a textbook. The why's and how's.
I'm going to talk about how to jazz up a course book and about rationale behind it. All the examples I'm going to give are going to be the activities and ideas I came up with when teaching groups at university.

About the speaker:
Natalia has been Teaching for around 5 years, mainly focusing on 121 online classes now. She holds CAE (A), DELTA M1, MA in Modern Social Analysis (in progress). Her teaching inspiration is Shifu from "Kung Fu Panda".

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If only I could prepare for Delta M1 on my own... Well, you should try!
In the session, I will re-create my DELTA M1 journey, which I embarked on in September 2020 and successfully finished December that year ("Pass with Merit"). I will talk about how I found my terrain in the jungle of the materials that need to be covered and how I approached preparation for each of the tasks.

About the speaker:
Ekaterina is a philologist working as an English teacher at one of Moscow Universities famous for liberal views and innovations and a postgraduate student of a pedagogical department at a Christian Orthodox University trying to make the best of the juxtaposition of these two pedagogical environments.

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Designing a syllabus for an ESP course "Theological and Pedagogical English": the challenge and beauty of it
ESP course design has grown to become one of the most prominent areas of EFL teaching in the last few decades. In some way, a course of Theological English can be viewed as a part of the current trend though having a specific flavour as it is aimed at teaching a language that is more than usually nuanced and significant.
One of the challenges stems from the difficulty of finding materials for such disciplines which seemingly haven't been on the radar of EFL teachers before and lack published materials to rely on. Not talking about theology being an intricate intellectual practice in itself to grasp and research.
The beauty of the course lies in the ample opportunities for delivering food for thought connected with the faith concepts (which might have existential impact on the students), in engaging higher order cognitive skills like critical thinking – all while building up students' language skills.

About the speaker:
Karina is a certified English teacher, a specialist in exam prep and phonetics (General American accent). Karina holds TKT and CAE.

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Exam Prep Survival Guide
My talk is going to be about OGE/EGE, Cambridge exams and IELTS. I want to briefly talk about fears that teacher may face with exam preparation, why it's cool to start preparing students for exams and talk about essential materials and not-so-useful materials. In the end, you will get a starter pack of materials and easy-to-follow tips to ensure a smooth teaching process.

About the speaker:
Tatiana is a freelance teacher who has been teaching for six years. She holds a Master's degree in teaching and blogs about teaching and exam preparation. Tatiana mostly teaches for Russian state exams (EGE, OGE).

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How to prepare low-level students for Russian State Exams (ЕГЭ)

Preparing students to take EGE is a special responsibility. Despite the fact that teaching for exams can be immensely satisfying, exam teachers also need to be prepared for possible challenges, for example, preparing low-level students for EGE. This session will focus on how to deal with this challenge and why it is important to teach exam strategies.