Dear all,

As is customary at this time of year we will be having a series of workshops and presentations at the ICHN, from Wednesday July 27^th to Friday July 29th. I’m sure you will be able to find something of interest in the list below.

As you will see some of the sessions focus on teaching methodology, others shine a light on the language itself and there are also two skills workshops aimed at providing teachers with essential computing skills.

All sessions take place in Moneda. The PC Skills workshops will be in the multi-media room and all other sessions will be in Helen Wessel.

I should also point out that I regularly receive feedback on what time workshops should be scheduled. I am happy to listen to all opinions but unfortunately there isn’t one commonly held view! All sessions are done more than once so if you can’t make it the first time round maybe you will be able to make it the second.

I look forward to seeing you next week.

Regards,

Kevin Towl

See Program Here

Metaphorical English

Over on the Macmillan Dictionary Blog (http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/whats-your-english-2011/metaphors) the month of April has been designated ‘Metaphorical English’ month. There is a whole host of metaphor blogs and comments to look at.

* When new words are needed in order to describe things that did not exist before, they are often created by means of metaphor.

* Why some sports contribute more metaphors to the language than others.

* A short series of articles on metaphor (love, money, illness, success & failure, words & language, anger, friendship, honesty & dishonesty).

* Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make.

Check out all this and more HERE