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July 2005 Gwyneth Fox in Chile and Peru Gwyneth Fox attended the LABCI (Association of Latin American British Cultural Institutes) conference in Santiago de Chile, where she gave a plenary talk on Metaphor in the Classroom and a talk on the Macmillan Dictionaries, to about 400 teachers, managers and Directors of Culturas Inglesas from Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay. In Peru she spoke at the 7th Macmillan Coordinators' Day, organised by Macmillan Peru, winners of the Ibero-Americano Association's award for outstanding services. More than 200 teachers from all over Peru attended the Coordinators' Day, and Gwyneth followed this with a dictionary workshop with about 120 enthusiastic students at Macmillan's 1st Students' Day.
July 2005 London hosts Macmillan Dictionaries competition winner The winner of the Macmillan Dictionaries 'Are you one in a million?' competition, Zeynep Asena Öztürk from Turkey visited London for a week with her brother, Oytun. They loved London, took in all the sights, and even appeared on the BBC. Zeynep says it was 'the best holiday we have ever had' and hopes to be back soon!
June 2005 Gwyneth Fox visits Uzbekistan Gwyneth Fox gave dictionary workshops at the University of World Languages and the Regional Language Centre in Tashkent, and to English teachers in Samarkand. She visited the Macmillan English Bookshop and the Uzbekistan Teachers of English Association.
	12th May 2005 Macmillan sponsors the English-Speaking Union International Public Speaking Competition Final For the third year running, Macmillan awarded copies of the Macmillan English Dictionary to all 64 finalists in the ESU International Public Speaking Competition, held at Merchant Taylors' Hall in London. The competition is an annual event which brings together the individual winners of national competitions organised by the ESU network in 37 countries. The theme of this year's final was 'Differences and Diversity', and speakers addressed a topic of their own choice which related to this theme. The overall winner this year was Peng Xia from China, pictured here accompanied by Rita Lahlou (left), runner up from Morocco, and Samia Badih, winner of the Best Non-Native English Speaker Award from Lebanon.
May 2005 Gwyneth Fox visits Malaysia and Singapore Gwyneth Fox gave dictionary workshops at the Universiti Technologi Malaysia and at the University Malaya. She then gave a talk at the Malaysia English Language Teaching Association (MELTA) which was very well received and which provoked interesting questions. In Singapore, she gave two talks at Asialex, the biennial conference for lexicographers in Asia, one on metaphor and one on how the Macmillan School Dictionary was compiled. She gave further workshops to primary and secondary school teachers in Singapore.
May 2005 Word of the Week flies sky high in Voyager magazine 500,000 travellers on British Midland Airlines will from now on be entertained by the column 'Word to Watch' in the Voyager in-flight magazine. This regular feature on a new word is written by our very own Kerry Maxwell, author of the Word of the Week column on this site.
	April 2005 Morocco Macmillan again sponsored the Spelling Championship for non-native speakers of English, organised by the Moroccan Spelling Bee Club. This took place on 29th April 2005 in Agadir. The three winners were Brahim Ait Bella and Hicham Loutfi, both from Chtouka Ait Baha delegation, and Abdelhakim Lamkirich from Zagora delegation. There were more participants than ever before, and the championship drew interest from the Moroccan Ministry of Education.
April 2005 Sierra Leone Kai Fomba, General Manager of Macmillan Sierra Leone, found a novel way of telling Freetown residents about the Macmillan English Dictionaries. Here he is, pictured with his newly-painted van.
	April 2005 Lithuania Jon Hird, author of Inside Out and In Company, and a teacher-trainer, visited Lithuania to give workshops on the Macmillan English Dictionary to over 350 participants at the 1st Macmillan Conference in Klaipeda and Vilnius.
March 2005 Ethiopia Gwyneth gave three days of British Council-based workshops in Ethiopia to very responsive participants: primary, secondary and university teachers from private and government schools, teacher trainers, curriculum experts and librarians. The visit was covered by the Addis Ababa City Administration TV Channel, and Gwyneth was also interviewed by a private newspaper Chief Editor. The workshops generated huge interest in the dictionaries.
Ghana The Unimax Macmillan office in Ghana kept Gwyneth very busy with newspaper, television and radio interviews, meetings with the Directors of the Ghana Education Service, and sessions with reps. This was in addition to a series of one-day interactive workshops on the Macmillan English Dictionary and Macmillan School Dictionary, officially opened by the Director General of the Ghana Education Service. The attendance was impressive and participants expressed interest in the dictionaries and pledged to recommend them to their schools. Gwyneth particularly enjoyed participating in the Radio Univers (The Voice of the University of Ghana, Legon) weekly programme, 'Read a Book a Week'.	The Director General officially opening Gwyneth's workshops
Marco Miceli of Librairie Payot Rive Gauche receving his prize of a digital camera. With him is Christine Kaech of distributor OLF.	March 2005 Switzerland The Librairie Payot Rive Gauche in Geneva had a little celebration to mark their contribution to the Macmillan Dictionaries worldwide 'Are you one in a million?' competition. Regional Manager, Mike Taylor, thanks all of the booksellers who gave their support to this promotion.
February 2005 Turkey Zeynep Asena Ozturk, from Nuri Cingillioglu High School in Turkey, was the overall winner of the Macmillan Dictionaries 'Are you one in a million?' competition. She will be visiting London for a week in July. Here she is pictured with her English teachers and headmaster, accompanied by Nick Ebden, Macmillan representative in Turkey who announced her prize.
Jacqueline Sabri, Macmillan Representative in Jordan, Lina Kitob of the University Bookstore in Amman, and Amin Rasheed and May Goussous, winners of the competition.	February 2005 Jordan Jacqueline Sabri, the Macmillan representative in Jordan, organised a small presentation for the winners of the Macmillan Dictionaries 'Are you one in a million?' competition.
February 2005 Lithuania The Macmillan dictionaries featured prominently at the Vilnius Bookfair in Lithuania, where the distributor sold numerous copies of the dictionary and the red Macmillan Dictionaries canvas bags caused a sensation! Vida Skudiene, Macmillan's representative in Lithuania is pictured in front of the stand.