For the next week, I am going to be enjoying the immense privilege of working on a training mission in Senegal. It is a joy to go out and work with such enthusiastic and sincere people. I learn as much, if not more, than I teach, each time I go. I am updating my Dakar training pages as I go. My mission this time around is to work on Listening skills, using authentic recordings and to this end, I have created on this blog a Listening data base of A1 and A2 level documents.  I also am going to be working on oral skills in general, teaching through pairwork and other interactive activities. My third objective for my three day course is to wokr on CLIL, the teaching of another subject through English. I have seen this area grow in Dakar over my time there and we are now starting to really go places with it.

Working in the sunshine, with the clear blue skies and guaranteed warmth on my bones makes me feel injected with energy and wanting to grab life to the full. Staying in a hotel that overlooks the ocean, with a beach to stroll on and a pool to take a dip after a day at work, who would say no to that ? Certainly not me. These are what I call working conditions !!