Sam McCarter: 10 Practical Activities for Exams Success - 13:00 - 13:45 (за українським часом) 

Fiona Mauchline – In a World of Pure Imagination (особливості навчання підлітків) - 14:00 to 14:45 (за українським часом).

Carol Read: Storytelling: Top Tips for Getting Young Learners Started - 17:00 to 17.45 (за українським часом).

Sam McCarter

Sam McCarter's teaching career spans a period of more than 30 years with numerous publications for IELTS, and EAP and ESP, such as the widely used IELTS publication Ready for IELTS (Macmillan), Direct to IELTS, IELTS Introduction, IELTS Testbuilders and various IELTS skills books, Oxford EAP B2 course book (OUP), and Medicine 1 and Medicine 2 (OUP).

He has also written various articles on IELTS and ESP and has edited glossaries for CD-ROMs on tropical medicine for the Wellcome Trust as well as working as an editor for various organizations including the WHO. His interests include materials production, including the use of electronic media, and teaching methodology, and writing fiction and gamification for language and skills materials.

Sam's interactive app IELTS Skills (Macmillan Education) won the English Speaking Union President's Award 2013 for innovation and good practice in English language teaching and learning. The app was also been shortlisted for the ELTons Award 2014 for Digital Innovation.

What inspires Sam to work in ELT:

"The main motivator is and was the desire to create and develop materials for students and teachers. The internet now affords new opportunities."

Sam's latest project for Macmillan Education:

IELTS Testbuilder 1 2nd Edition, published in 2015

Sam's top teaching tip:

"Aim to make students as flexible and confident in using the language they acquire."

Fiona Mauchline

Fiona has worked in ELT for over 25 years and is a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer based in Cáceres, Spain. She regularly trains teachers in Spain and France, and has also trained in Italy, Portugal, Palestine and Turkey. She is the co-author of two courses for secondary schools (including Interface, also known for Motivate!), and has written materials for several others including Voices and Straightforward. She is the author of the online booklet Using Graded Readers in the Classroom (Macmillan), co-curates ELTpics, and has four blogs, including Macappella and Take a photo and…, both on the ELT classroom.

What inspired and continues to inspire you to work in ELT?

Originally the combination of language ‘detective work’ and working with people, learning about and from people from all walks of life. It’s a job which is different every single day, and that appealed. And now it’s working with people, with words, with my mind, finding new ways, meeting new people, laughter, more words …. Always learning.


If you could have written one book what would it be?

I’m still writing it.


Tell us about your latest/recent projects with Macmillan?

I’ve been working with the Central / Eastern Europe region training teachers in various countries, and with the Graded Readers department working on materials for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

What is your top tip or piece of advice for teachers?


A wise old owl lived in an oak
The more he saw the less he spoke
The less he spoke the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?

Carol Read

Carol Read is an educational consultant, teacher trainer and writer with many years' experience of working with children. Carol's publications include the award-winning titles, Bugs and 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom. Carol's latest publication, Tiger Time, is a new six-level, primary course with integrated digital resources for teachers and pupils. Carol is currently Vice President of IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language).

Discover all of the titles Carol has written for Macmillan Education and follow Carol on Twitter @carolread.

What inspires Carol to work in ELT:

"The creativity, energy and enthusiasm of so many primary teachers and children around the world."

Carol's latest project with Macmillan Education:

"My latest project is Tiger Time, a new six-level primary course with integrated digital resources for teachers and pupils. I'm proud of the way Tiger Time reflects children's development and interests at different ages and excited by the positive response the course has had so far."