1 Take 55 ELT professionals from 23 provinces throughout Vietnam.
2 Put them in a large room.
3 Add a well-known UK trainer and ELT writer, two VTTN conference trainers and the British Council team.
4 Stir in some wonderful weather, laughter jokes, a song or two and a large bag of top quality, practical teaching activities.
5 Leave to bubble gently for three days.
6 Stir occasionally.
7 When ready, serve and enjoy with colleagues and students.


This year we were very fortunate to have Mario Rinvolucri with us for the 3rd VTTN national conference in Hanoi. Mario works at Pilgrims, Canterbury, one of the UK's leading language and teacher training schools. He has published numerous ELT methodology books, including Dictation, Grammar Games, Once Upon a Time and, most recently, Humanising Your Coursebook. He is also the editor of the FREE online ELT magazine Humanising Language Teaching
(www.hltmag.co.uk)

Contents

Conference participants were shown and took part in a range of activities for use when teaching with texts. The activities were presented within a 'Multiple Intelligence'* framework, showing how human beings learn in different ways - some learners think mostly visually, some think logically while others think linguistically. For teaching to be successful for all these learners, it is necessary to recognise these differences and use activities accordingly in the classroom.
Some of the conference activities are reproduced in the following pages. We hope you find them interesting and useful.

*If you would like to read more about Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence theory, please send a
letter or e-mail to Brian at the British Council
(address at the back of the newsletter) or log on to the internet at
http://www.hltmag.co.uk/sep02/mart5.htm

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