VTTN grew out of a desire on the part of MOET and the British Council to assist in the development of upper secondary school English teaching at a provincial level. VTTN is a three-year project supported by MOET with professional and financial input by the British Council. The project focuses on practical problem-solving skills - teaching solutions that you can take back to your classrooms and pass on to your peers. The VTTN activities in this second year of activity started in July with a series of three-day provincial workshops in eight provinces (Thai Nguyen, Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa, Khanh Hoa, Hue, Danang, Ho Chi Minh City and Nghe An) focusing on 'Adapting textbook exercises from English/Tieng Anh 10, 1 1 and 12'. The outputs from the workshops were disseminated further to upper secondary English teachers through cascade training workshops in schools and through this VTTN newsletter.

This August we were very pleased that, at the request of the Ministry.of Education and Training, the British Council was able to work with the Ministry to broaden the scope of the eight-province national workshop to develop a national conference for upper secondary school teachers from all 61 provinces in Vietnam. We were also delighted to have a well known academic and author in the field of English language teaching, Peter Grundy from the University of Durham, to lead the event working with Vietnamese and British co-trainers.

I hope you will share our sense of pride in the achievements of VTTN, which are to a large extent your achievements. We are indebted to the co-ordinators and co-trainers in each province who have worked so hard and with such professionalism to make the workshops a success. And we are especially grateful for the enthusiasm, commitment and ideas of all the participants. Some of the ideas and lesson plans from the workshops are included in this newsletter. We hope you will find them interesting and useful in your teaching.

Kate Owen
Deputy Director
British Council Vietnam