 The English Opens Doors Programme has developed several strategies to provide EFL teachers in public schools with more professional development opportunities, helping them to improve their English-language fluency and teaching practices.These include English language and methodology courses, local teachers' networks where peers form communities of collaboration, English Summer Town and English Winter Retreat (annual total immersion seminars where foreign professionals share their expertise with EFL teachers), among others.In 2005, just prior to the China-Chile free trade agreement, the Ministry of Education developed a programme that allows educators to incorporate Mandarin Chinese into the curriculum, which is also managed by the English Opens Doors Programme.