seminar

seminar
01. In my [seminar] class, we follow a weekly schedule in which we each take turns leading a group discussion.
02. Dave made a presentation at a [seminar] on information technology in Washington last month.
03. The conference offers a series of [seminars] on teaching techniques for new elementary school instructors.
04. We had an interesting discussion of the ethics of cloning in my sociology [seminar] today.
05. I picked up a huge booklet which describes all the [seminars] being offered during the three-day conference.
06. Over 100 teachers attended the [seminar] he gave on current methods of teaching vocabulary.
07. Larry Newton gave an excellent [seminar] on the teaching of vocabulary at the ESL conference we attended.
08. The Linguistics department offers free weekly [seminars] with guest lecturers speaking on issues relating to the teaching of English as a second language.
09. Doctors at the [seminar] were discussing the new flu-like virus which had killed a number of people in the Far East.
10. We attended a special lunch [seminar] with some of the presenters from the conference.
11. Two guys almost started fighting after a particularly heated exchange in my theology [seminar] last night.
12. I missed our weekly [seminar] due to illness, so I'll have to get the notes from someone.
13. Online [seminars] allow students to participate from anywhere in the world.
14. According to Maier and Warren, university [seminars] are most effective when they are regular and frequent so that the discussions are relevant to current course topics.

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  • Seminar — (Pflanzschule), Anstalt zur Heranbildung von Schullehrern und lehrerinnen in Erwerbung der schulwissenschaftlichen Kenntnisse und Erteilung des Unterrichts. Je nach dem System der Ausbildung sind die Zöglinge im Internat (d.h. sie erhalten… …   Lexikon der gesamten Technik

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