Learning Basic Global English at Age 91

We are proud of the oldest BGE student, who has successfully completed a BGE course at the EHP and also managed to lead classroom phases according to LdL. Here is the EHP newsletter entry.

Basic Global English – New Free Downloads

Good news for primary schools and adult training institutes: Thanks to the cooperation between the EHP and ASEcoLi it is now possible to offer further learning material for our concept Basic Global English for free (via the ASEcoLi, the EHP,  or the BGE website):

BGE at Vision Summit 2012

On Friday (May 18) Bea Klüsener and I will present Basic Global English at the Vision Summit 2012.

 

Time: 15:50-16:30h

Venue: University of Potsdam, Campus Griebensee, Room S 17

 

Joachim Grzega

BGE nominated for award for innovation in adult teaching

ASEcoLi was honored for BGE by getting nominated for the Innovationspreis of the Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE). Nominated were 19 out of 60 projects from all over Germany. (Here is the German DIE press release.)

Joachim Grzega

New BGE Article

A new article on BGE, by Sandra Stenzenberger and myself, has now been published in the Journal for EuroLinguistiX. The article deals with teaching pronunciation, vocabulary and communication skills and tests different skills with respect to the Common European Framework of Reference.

Joachim Grzega

BGE: Sustainability Event at Eichstätt’s dm-market

One and a half weeks of the sustainability exhibition at Eichstätt’s are over. Until Wednesday you still have the chance to visit our BGE information desk as well as the information desk of the two other noteworthy sustainability projects. And you can also vote for one of the projects to be financially further supported by dm.

BGE at Eichstätt’s dm market

The German dm company, together with UNESCO, has called on its customers to hand in projects that promote the idea of sustainability. We handed in a description of Basic Global English and were selected for the second phase of this contest, which consists of presenting the project at the local dm-market.

Clip from a BGE Test in an Adult Group

I’ve uploaded a new BGE clip on YouTube. This one is from a test in my adult group. This test was carried out after 16 lessons (90 mins each) of BGE. The test consists of emergency calls.

Pronunciation Training with Adults

Last week, I continued a BGE course in Memmingen with a part of the participants from the first course. I had planned to deal more with pronunciation training. For this, selected dialogs from Welcome to the World. While in the first course the participants were allowed to replace the original text by personally relevant words already very soon, I insisted on an exact copy of the text this time, so that the focus could be put completely on the pronunciation.

BGE in Memmingen: Results of Written Test

I am happy to say that all participants have passed the final test (which included 3 listening comprehension questions, 3 reading comprehension questions, a question on 3 cross-cultural differences and a test production task) with at least 8 out of 16 points; with this, participants have demonstrated that they have acquired basic communicative skills in English.