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English in Spain Hi Everyone! I hope you have all survived that first week!  We've been getting ready for a busy year and looking out for news we hope will make going back to school that bit easier for you!  It's nearly time for our annual ELT conferences and I hope many of you are going. There's more info on these below and look out too for news about our new & free British Council MOOC which already has over 100,000 people signed up globally! I'm really looking forward to catching up with many of you at our Madrid conference, and hopefully I'll see some of you at GRETA's New learners, new needs, better approaches in October too. Have a great September!  Mark p.s. it's becoming increasingly difficult for us to fit all of our news into one newsletter so we may at times this year send out special bulletins for latest news or news with short deadlines. Remember that if you don't want to continue receiving the newsletter you can opt out using the link below.   Creative ELT conferences: Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Valencia. Saturday 27 September. Our Madrid conference registration has closed but good news - you can still register for the Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia events!  Register here. If you haven't quite decided yet, why not have a listen to some of the speakers' podcasts on our website?   Follow our conference news on Twitter too #CreativeELT  If you want to join the waiting list for the Madrid Creative ELT conference you can send us an e-mail at es-english@britishcouncil.es . APTIS sessions in Madrid 16, 23 and 30 September   Do you know that our APTIS exam is officially recognised  by the Comunidad de Madrid, the Islas Baleares and Cantabria for "Habilitación Lingüística" to certify B2? Try out a practice test and find out more about this innovative British Council exam here. Book your APTIS test in September here.   Good luck! Hay Festival Segovia 25-29 September 2014  The  9th Hay Festival Segovia welcomes writers and poets such as Roger McGough and Marcus Sedgewick amongst others.  You can find out all about the exhibitions, concerts and debates as well as buy tickets for  this year's festival here. Hope to see you there! British Education Fairs in Spain. 22 October Barcelona, 23 October Madrid.  You and your students can now register for this year's Education Fairs in Spain.  Universities and Agents representing schools, English Language Centres and Vocational colleges in the UK will be on hand to give you the best and most reliable information about your options for studying in the UK. Register here for Barcelona and register here for Madrid. Keep up to date with the latest Education Fair news on Twitter #Britisheduspain #Fair2014.    Exploring English: Language and Culture Registration open! Free online English course. The British Council has just launched a  free online course for learning English.  The course is suitable for Intermediate learners (B1 approximately) and improves language skills through the use of authentic English materials.   Videos, short discussions and quizzes and the discussions amongst students from all over the world with tutors will make this a novel learning English experience for many students! You can find out more about Exploring English here and keep up with the latest news on Twitter #FLlearnenglish. Sign up before 12 October!  Feedback Unsubscribe Forward

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