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April 2004 Hungary Macmillan Hungary sponsors English Speaking Union competition
Macmillan sponsored the English Speaking Union's Public Speaking Competition in Hungary at the British Embassy in Budapest on 16th April. Each of the 12 finalists received a Macmillan Essential Dictionary, and the winner, Aniko Balint from Budapest, was given a copy of the Macmillan English Dictionary with CD-ROM (winner of the ESU English Language Book Award 2002). The jury included Jim McGrath, director of The British Council in Hungary, and the prizes were given out by John Nichols, the British Ambassador.	Aniko Balint receiving her dictionary from Petra Vanik, manager of Macmillan in Hungary.

April 2004 38th International Annual IATEFL Conference Liverpool, UK Visitors to the 38th Annual IATEFL Conference were seeing red this month thanks to Macmillan’s prominently placed stand at the main entrance to the event. As expected, the conference played host to a wealth of international delegates and boasted a full programme of presentations from some of the world’s most renowned ELT authors, lexicographers and ELT specialists. Macmillan’s own authors appeared at the conference to speak about some of the company’s best-selling titles. Pete Sharma gave a presentation on the benefits to teachers of the Macmillan Essential Dictionary CD-ROM, and the Macmillan Dictionaries' Chief Advisor, Prof. Michael Hoey gave a paper on ‘writing better academic prose’. Macmillan hosted a party on the second night of the conference and what better theme to choose than The Beatles for a Liverpudlian event. The party was hosted at the famous Cavern club, a regular venue for Beatles gigs in the early 1960s. More than 400 people managed to squeeze into the venue to enjoy the free wine and food not to mention music from The Beatalls, Liverpool’s best Beatles tribute band. ELT delegates packed the dance floor to show off their dance moves and request their favourite Beatles songs. The party was an ideal opportunity to celebrate the success of the Macmillan English Dictionaries range of products at the British Council Innovation Award ceremony in March.	Seeing red - The Macmillan stand at this year's IATEFL conference The party in full swing during Macmillan's packed IATEFL event at the Cavern Club
The IATEFL festivities did not end with the Macmillan party. On Thursday evening Prof. Michael Hoey (member of the Campaign for Real Ale, CAMRA) led 60 delegates from the conference on a pub crawl around central Liverpool. As always the IATEFL conference was a great event and we hope to see you next year in Cardiff! To find out more about the annual IATEFL conference click here.

April 2004 Hungary The Macmillan Hungary team held their 13th Methodology Conference for teachers of English in Budapest on Saturday, 3rd April. After 12 successful conferences, the Ministry of Education’s World Language Programme supported the conference this year. The opening ceremony took place in the main hall of Almássy téri Szabadidő Központ. Mr Jim McGrath, the director and cultural attaché of the British Council in Budapest, gave an opening speech. The various talks and workshops held in Madách Imre Gimnázium included a presentation of the award-winning Macmillan English Dictionaries by Péter Rádai.