Mark Andrews presents "The beautiful bridges of Budapest and the history of our beautiful language teaching profession” at Ignite Budapest #2, Cotton Club, Budapest, Hungary, 10 November 2009.

1. The fascinating coincidences between the beautiful bridges of Budapest and the history of our beautiful profession

3. And at the same time, the Scot, not the Englishman, Adam Clark was working on the L á nch í d

5. 1878 Margit H íd and Maximillian Berlitz Zichy Mihály Arany János

7. 1898, Szabadság híd , previously Ferencz József híd, Francois Gouin discovered that you can’t learn a language by learning its rules like you can’t learn to drive by reading the highway code.

8. 1937 Petőfi híd , formerly Horthy Miklós híd and A.S Hornby

10. 1950, Stalin bridge, now Á rp á d H í d and the rise of audiolingualism. B.F. Skinner , so much to answer for ! Teachers of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our behaviouristic beasts. In 1958, Stalin’s name disappeared from the face of this bridge

11. Erzsébet h íd 19 64 and Dell Hymes Language in Culture and Society

12. And the Mária Valéria híd, just up the river in Esztergom. Sissy’s daughter!

13. 1995 Lágymányosi híd and the start of the Cambridge International Corpus , Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy

14. Even Jim Scrivener saw the newest Budapest bridge , the Megyeri híd 2008 , to be the key to the sales of the latest edition of his book

16. So who was the most influential ?

17. The bab y chain bridge

20. Never divide ELT from general pedagogy

21. Understanding and knowing where we’ve come from helps us to work out better where we’re going to

22. Enjoy our bridges, pause for a moment when you pass one,you may never see them in the same light again. Bridges are like languages Connecting people and places!