Please circulate this info. among those you think will find it useful. Thanks TOOLS FOR TEACHERS ADVANCED LANGUAGE WORKSHOPS June 22 and July 6 at SBS Centro, Pasaje Discépolo 1875 ( near Estación Callao, Linea B), CABA Fees: $90 or $85 (students) for a single workshop $145 or $140 (students) for both Registrations: instructions at the bottom of this announcement 1. IDIOMS, PROVERBS AND SAYINGS: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH Saturday, June 22, 10:30 to 13:30 Fees and venue: as indicated above In this workshop we will attempt to find the equivalent for English and Spanish proverbs and idioms wherever possible. Sample questions to be dealt with are as follows: How would you say the following in English? Del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho. Chupate esa mandarina. A rey muerto, rey puesto. Me viene como anillo al dedo. How would you complete the following? He did it in two ......... of a lamb’s tail. That’s very near. Just a ............ throw. Do it thoroughly and carefully. Don’t cut ...... NB: Participants will receive an answer key to the exercises and a bibliography for further study. 2. A FURTHER LOOK AT COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH Saturday,6 July, 10:30 to 13:30 Fees and venue: as indicated above How would you express the following in informal /colloquial English? • cup of coffee • very angry beer or upset • person or thing that is remarkable • a person who talks incessantly • to say bad things about someone, criticize them • with great intensity, vigour, successfully • to deceive or trick someone in order to make that person do sth. We will examine about 100 expressions some of which originated in the U.S. but are now used throughout the whole English speaking world, and we will distinguish those which are common mainly in the U.S. Workshops conducted by ORIEL VILLAGARCIA, Profesor en inglés Magna Cum Laude, Univ. Nac. de Tucumán, British Council and Fulbright Scholar, post graduate studies, University of Texas , M.A., University of Lancaster . Certified Administrator of the Myer Briggs Type Indicator, Florida , USA . Master Practitioner of NLP, Certificate of Completion, NLP University , Santa Cruz , California . He has taught at the Univ. Católica de Salta, Univ. Nac. de Rio Cuarto, and Univ. Nac. de Santiago del Estero. He was on the Advisory Panel for the MACMILLAN ENGLISH DICTIONARY, First Edition. In the past few years he has devoted a large part of his time to the study of mind-body therapies and he is a certified practitioner of massage, Breema, reflexology, and Jin Shin Jyutsu. He is also an Instructor of Esferodinamia Terapéutica. REGISTRATIONS Reserve a seat by emailing [email protected] with your full name, address and phone numbers, and indicate the name of the workshop(s) you are registering for. You will then receive an acknowledgment of receipt which will enable you to pay the fee right before the workshop starts.
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