BESIG - in-person PCE: Sustainability in the Business English Context: Practical Teaching Strategies

Join the IATEFL Business English Special Interest Group for their 2025 in person Pre-Conference Event on 7 April:  Greening Business English: Practical activities for sustainability and CSR to future-proof your teaching

Join us for a full-day Pre-Conference Event exploring innovative ways to integrate topics of sustainability into Business English teaching. This interactive and dynamic day offers practical strategies and tools to empower educators to bring real-world sustainability concepts into their classrooms.

The day begins with an interactive workshop, led by John Hughes, where participants will explore how to seamlessly incorporate the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals into Business English lessons. A World Café session follows, facilitated by Christopher Grahams, fostering collaborative discussions around critical incidents in sustainability and their implications for teaching in global contexts.

After lunch, participants will rotate through skill-building stations, each focusing on specific tools and techniques for weaving sustainability into Business English training. The event concludes with an action-planning session, where attendees will consolidate what they have learned and outline personalized strategies for integrating these practices into their teaching.

Leave inspired and equipped to engage your learners with globally relevant and important topics that not only enhance business language skills but also empower them to navigate the challenges of a rapidly changing world.

Speakers:

John Hughes

John Hughes attended his first BESIG conference in 1994. He has designed and delivered courses to numerous companies and prepared students for business examinations. His published titles include Business Result (Oxford), Telephone English (Macmillan), Success with Business and Total Business as well as general English titles such as Life and Pathways (National Geographic Learning). As co-author, his ETpedia Business English (Pavilion ELT) resource book for teachers won a BESIG award.  Currently, he is writing materials which integrate the UN's sustainability development goals and runs training course in materials writing at www.writingeltmaterials.com.

Christopher Graham

Christopher Graham is a freelance ELT consultant and author based in the UK. He has worked in the field since 1981 in over 30 countries for the British Council, ministries of education and international publishers. He works extensively on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning projects and CPD design and delivery. He has a specific interest in teaching contexts in fragile and fractured societies, and in the role that ELT has in engaging with the climate crisis.
He is VP of IATEFL, a Trustee, and Chairs the Publications Committee, and will be President from 2025-27. He is a judge for the British Council’s ELTons awards.

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