At National Geographic Learning, our mission is to bring the world to the classroom, and the classroom to life. We want students of English and their teachers to experience the excitement and joy of learning through our materials.
We invite you to join us in professional development webinars with English Language Teaching specialists, speakers from the TED stage, National Geographic Explorers, and others in the English Language Teaching field.
Upcoming Webinars Series:
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“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand,” said the philosopher Confucius two and a half thousand years ago. Although life has changed immeasurably since then, his words remain true - The best way to learn is by doing. National Geographic Learning invites you to this series of webinars that places you, the teacher, into the role of a student. Find out how it feels to take part in complete online lessons for young learners, teens and adults. Pick up teaching techniques and activities by doing them. See for yourself how interactive and engaging the virtual classroom can be with fascinating, visually striking content from best-selling National Geographic Learning programs such as Life, World English, Our World and Look.
Past Webinars:
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Session 18
Grammar - Imperatives and When Clauses
– World Link, Level 1, Unit 10
What’s the most important thing in life? Money? Relationships? Success? No - health comes first! Talking about our health is an important, real-world skill and is the topic of this week’s model lesson from our adult title, World Link. Join us for this interactive grammar lesson focusing on ‘imperatives’ and ‘when clauses’ and pick up some new teaching ideas!
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Session 17
Great Paragraph Topic Sentences
Great Writing, level 2 Unit 3
“There are many excellent reasons for exercising several times a week.”
“Because Malaysia and Thailand are next to each other, we might think that these two countries share many similarities.”
“The shocking crash of the airplane off the coast of Florida confused investigators.”
What do these sentences have in common? They are all strong topic sentences that can start great paragraphs. Join us as we look at how to build more great topic sentences, identify and create compound and complex sentences, brainstorm ideas on a topic, and prepare to write great paragraphs!
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Session 16
JOEL SARTORE – SAVING ENDANGERED ANIMALS
EXPLORATIONS
“Do you like animals? I do. I love animals. Do you like to take pictures? I do. I love to take pictures. Hi, my name is Joel Sartore ….”
Who is Joel Sartore? What does he do? In this mode lesson we’re going to look at some amazing animal portraits and experience a light and fun cross-curricular lesson using course content from National Geographic Learning's Explorations, a series of project-based STEAM courses for young learners.
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Session 15
Entertain Me!
Perspectives
What forms of entertainment do you enjoy? Which ones don’t interest you at all? This week’s lesson will explore the creative arts, including traditional theater, music, television and modern art. Learn how a vocabulary lesson in our teen program, Perspectives, incorporates critical thinking and personalization for a more thought-provoking and memorable lesson.
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Session 14
CHINA SHOWCASE LIBRARY
Our mystery creature was a powerful Chinese hero who could fly through the air and defeat armies with his magic staff. A character from one of the classics of Chinese literature, Journey to the West, he has been a superhero to Chinese children for centuries. Find out why he continues to feature in TV shows, movies, music and other entertainment.
Learn about China, through its history, people, places, and culture. The China Showcase Library from National Geographic Learning and People’s Education Press presents non-fiction reading selections on a variety of fascinating topics.
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Session 13
DRIVE ALONG, ANIMAL SONG
LOOK Starter Anthology
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” - Dr. Seuss
Now read with me. “I have a long nose. I have a long tail, too. I can run and jump. Look what I can do!” Can you feel the rhythm? Can you feel the rhyme?
Stories are so fantastic for young learners’ language learning. In the classroom teaching, when English is not the students’ first language, the delivery is everything. How can teachers work on their performance? What are the best practices for teachers to use stories to teach young learners? In this session, let us practice some key techniques in teaching stories together and at the same time enjoy some beautiful stories from National Geographic Learning’s VYL and YL programs Look and See and LOOK.
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Session 12
WILD ANIMALS
Welcome to Our World Level 3, Unit 3
“What’s this? This is a zebra. A zebra is black and white. A zebra has four legs. A zebra has a tail. Can you tell me about your favorite animal?”
“This is an elephant. This is a baby elephant. That elephant is bigger. That elephant is the mommy elephant. Here is another elephant. Is this elephant bigger?”
Join us for a session using Welcome to Our World level 3, a pre-primary program where we focus on vocabulary, sentences, descriptions, concepts (such as bigger and smaller), songs and phonics – and a whole lot more! Come prepared; have a pencil and a few pieces of paper to draw or write on and let’s have some fun together.
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Session 11
TRY SOMETHING NEW FOR 30 DAYS
Learn English with TED Talks
Have you ever wanted to get fit? Or write a novel? So, why haven't you done it yet? Because big goals are intimidating! In this lesson from Learn English With Ted Talks (LETT), Matt Cutts shows us how we can make achievable, sustainable changes to our lives. The LETT app can be used for self-study, or with the Classroom Presentation Tool for a full Flipped Classroom experience either online or face-to-face. Register now to experience this exciting digital program!
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Session 10
SECRETS AND LIES
Keynote level 4, Unit 4
Do you lie? Go on, tell the truth – you lie a lot! Would you believe that you probably lie more than 20 times a day? Did you know that more than half of photos on social media are lies? Are you aware that, if you are married, you lie to you husband or wife about once in every 10 times you talk with them – and they do the same?
Why do we lie so much? And how do you spot when someone is lying? Join us for this session about secrets, lies, lie-spotting, and truth-seeking using TED Talks, videos, critical thinking and discussion activities from National Geographic Learning’s Keynote series.
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Session 9
LONG AGO AND TODAY
Explore Our World level 4, Unit 6
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” - Stephen Ambrose, Historian & Explorer-In-Residence Emeritus
How did people spend time long ago? How were their days different from ours today? How were they the same? Let’s explore in Unit 6 from Explore Our World Level 4 and find out how life today is different from life in the past.
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Session 8
Career Paths / Love Your Job
Pathways Foundations level, Unit 2
What was your dream job when you were a child? What really makes people happy at work?
This webinar features activities from both the Reading and Writing / Listening and Speaking editions of our Academic Skills title Pathways. Participants will work on visual literacy by interpreting an infographic, analyse a lecture on happiness at work, learn how to use signposting when presenting information in a list, discuss their dream jobs and more!
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Session 7
My Clothes
Look and See Level 1, Unit 9
This is my shirt. My shirt is white. My pants are black. I like my clothes! I can dress myself. What about you?
Join us for a session focused on the youngest language learners, as we show a lesson for 3-year-old students about their clothes. We will look at names for clothing, colors, and talking about our clothes with each other. We will also do a small project together. Come join the fun!
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Session 6
Challenges : A Microadventure
Life Pre-intermediate, Unit 4
This week's webinar is a model lesson from our adult title Life, pre-intermediate. Join National Geographic Explorer Alastair Humphries on a microadventure to the beautiful Croatian coastline while reviewing irregular past tense verbs, learning vocabulary, and planning your own exciting trip!
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Session 5
FREE TIME – LOOK, Level 1, Unit 12
Free time is as important as learning time for young learners. There’s a freedom in creating something from nothing – deciding what to play and how to play. It also gives young learners the opportunity for independence and self-reflection. Young learners will discover and pursue their passions, and often will share their stories. So what do you do in your free time? Let’s learn together about free time activities and encourage our young learners to think about how they can use their free time well. We have specifically chosen a learning unit from National Geographic Learning’s new primary program, LOOK. Join us and experience a variety of activities designed for young learners of 6 or 7 years old, that can be delivered either online or face-to-face.
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Session 4
Let Your Students Reach Higher
with Language, Literacy and Content
Content-based English is a style allowing second-language users of English to learn similarly to first-language students. By considering 'Big Questions', using academic vocabulary, and developing academic and critical thinking skills - with appropriate bridging and support - in National Geographic Learning's Reach Higher series, students can achieve an education with English as the medium of instruction.
In this lesson from level 2, we look at where water comes from, and where it goes. If your community doesn't have easy access to water, how does that affect the way you live? If a new invention helps to give you better access to water, how does that change your life? How do we use water, and how can we conserve it? Join us to see how we can help grade 2 students at an ESL or first-language-English level learn the language and skills to explore these ideas together.
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Session 3
PUSHING THE LIMITS
– Impact Level 4, Unit 1
Teenage learners can be the most - or the least - enthusiastic of our students. Having the right materials to engage them in our lessons is critical. Impact encourages self-expression, global citizenship, and active participation. It motivates students to explore who they are and who they want to be - all while learning English. Impact features inspiring stories from National Geographic Explorers such as photojournalist, Cory Richards. In this lesson, we will study the language and vocabulary needed to discuss risk-taking and adventure in relation to Cory’s incredible story about pushing your limits in order to succeed. Join us in this exciting online lesson and be inspired to try something new!
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Session 2
MY BODY
– Our World 2e, Level 1, Unit 7
In today's environment, many teachers are working out how best to teach online and some feel this is quite challenging for our youngest learners. In this lesson, we will model ways that some of the least skilled and youngest learners can be taken through a productive online lesson. We have specifically chosen a learning unit - My Body - that can lead to a very interactive face-to-face classes; how do we achieve the same kind of outcomes in an online lesson? Join us and experience a variety of activities designed for young learners (perhaps only 6-7 years old) using some of the tools available for online lesson delivery.
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Session 1
THREE THINGS I LEARNED WHILE MY PLANE CRASHED
– World English 3e Level 3 (Adult Title CEFR B2)
In this powerful TED Talk video lesson, we explore Ric Elias’s idea worth spreading - that life can be changed in an instant, so don’t delay. Be the best person you can be right now. By talking us through his own life-changing experience, Ric challenges us to evaluate our own lives and to consider how we could live differently. Join us and experience a wide variety of task types designed for adult learners while practicing conditional language, engaging through personalization activities and perhaps learning more about yourself.
Best Practices for Teaching Online - PART 3
Engaging Your Learners Online
It’s class time and everyone is logged in. Are your students paying attention? Will they actually learn anything today? How do you keep them performing for the whole session? In this third webinar of the series, the speaker will share ideas on how to engage learners with interactivity, as well as tips for dealing with attention spans and distractions in an online setting. He will also share some of his favorite online games and activities that keep his own students engaged and focused during his lessons.
Best Practice for Teaching Phonics to Young Learners
What is Phonics? Why should we teachers phonics? What should we cover when teaching phonics? In this session, you will find clear answers to all these questions. At the same time enjoy lots of fun phonics activities that you can put into practice immediately with your students in your classroom teaching.
Best Practices for Teaching Online - PART 2
Making the most of your time in an online lesson
You’ve scheduled your first online class, and now it’s time to plan. How long should your session be? How much should you aim to accomplish? And how should you plan to manage your class online? Join us for the second session of the series where the speaker explores the most common questions teachers have about running an online lesson, including time and classroom management. He will also discuss tips for being flexible when the unexpected happens.
Best Practice for Teaching Reading to Young Learners
Reading in today's world is a lot of things - it's bottom-up, top-down, nonlinear and multi-modal. In this session, we will explore how each of these ideas influences how we teach reading and, using examples from a student book, we will see how we can engage students in interactive readingexperiences that use pre-reading, during-reading and post-reading tasks to build their reading abilities.
Best Practices for Teaching Online - PART 1
Making the switch to teaching online
What do I need to teach online? How is it different to classroom teaching? In this first webinar of a three-part series, the speaker helps us to understand the things we need to consider and prepare as we start running online classes. He will explore how it differs from traditional teaching and share some useful tips on how to make your online class a success from the very first session.
Helping Your Online Classes Flourish with Classroom Presentation Tool
A classroom presentation tool (CPT) is more than just a digital version of a textbook. A powerful set of tools and functions allow teachers to present content in creative and engaging ways. Embedded audio, video and other resources ensure that everything you need is in the right place and easily accessible. In this session, we will explore some tips and techniques for using CPTs from our popular Life and World Link series.
A Taste of Two Cities - A Reading Exploration for A2-B1 Level Students
What is the connection between Sao Paolo in Brazil and Hamamatsu in Japan? In this webinar, we will go on a cultural journey and explore the fascinating links between these two cities that span several generations. We’ll also see a few great teaching activities in action, including how to effectively use graphs and charts to support learning, leverage personal experience to bring more to a lesson, and incorporate tasks to encourage critical thinking.
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