Date:     Monday 2nd November 2026
Time:     7.00 - 8.00 pm
Venue:  Online via Zoom

Target audience: Suitable for teachers of Junior and Senior Cycle English

In this webinar, Aoife will cover:

• What the proposed Leaving Cert oral is likely to involve
• What we can borrow from the French 'Grand Oral' and other approaches abroad
• Simple routines to tackle filler words, one-line answers and 'conversation closers'
• Ways to bring oral work into the poetry, films and fiction modules, particularly in TY
• A mock oral format to try with your own classes

Bio of Presenter: Aoife O' Driscoll

Aoife has run the English website www.aoifesnotes.com for over ten years. She is the author of a number of LC and JC textbooks for educate.ie, including the the Excellence in English and Excellence in Texts series.