#lslive

This weekend I attended the Language Show Live in Kensington Olympia. For those who don’t know, it’s an event all about languages and it’s great for teachers, students, translators and interpreters.

There are seminars, workshops, taster lessons, CV advice and stalls occupied by schools, publishers and organizations such as the EU. It’s a three day event, but unfortunately I was only able to go over the weekend.

Still, I managed to go to a number of seminars in a variety of subjects, from tips on teaching IELTS to translation and CV writing. I even went to a British Sign Language taster class which proved to be a lot of fun! 

Amongst all of this I was also able to talk to universities about postgraduate courses and learn about different job options within my area of expertise (whatever that might be).

Amongst all the learning and writing of notes, a mystery was brewing in the TEFL seminar area on Sunday. I noticed it when I went back for a second seminar in there on etymology: on both talks I attended there was a slide missing.

Now, if it had been a one time event I would have considered this a mistake by the speaker, but twice? In my mind, which tends to wonder, I started imagining a whole plot where the tech people were behind a small scale revenge mission because of being treated as inferior by the speakers - of which there was no actual evidence, teachers tend to be amiable creatures.