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On October 18th Prof. Mariel Amez presented Travellers’ Tales, where she shared
free, easily accessible material to liven up our lessons, collected at the IATEFL
Harrogate Conference she attended earlier this year and/ or inspired by her
journey. http://www.aprir.org.ar/anuncios/travellerstales

On November 27th we met at Asociación Católica San Patricio and shared a very
pleasant array of finger food and beer and pop sodas. The highlight of the event
was our tribute to three senior colleagues who have mentored and developed junior
teachers

for a great number of years: Prof. Fanny Sloer de Godfrid, Prof.Nelly

Bureau and Prof. María Adela Coccolo.
When the Karaoke started very many colleagues joined in the singing and dancing,
which proves that English teachers are fun to be around. Singing continued till the
early hours of the following morning and ended with a standup show by one of our
EC members which only a few late party-goers enjoyed.

After some members drew our attention to unfair situations affecting qualified
teachers in the “escalafones” for 2014, we wrote a detailed report to Unidad de
Incumbencias y Competencia de Títulos. We received a prompt reply indicating
that we would be contacted by telephone.

Throughout the year,

with their dues up to date have had

to all the activities we organized and have benefited from

when

attending professional development events organized by other institutions. We
would like to highlight the

free pass for the "Beyond the English Class" Applied