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Twenty Things in Twenty Years Part Four: the way I was taught to teach grammar crippled my understanding of grammar!
I feel it best to warn you in advance that this is a post that could potentially spiral wildly out
24-04-2020
Twenty Things in Twenty Years Part Three: kicking the grammar habit
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned elsewhere, my induction into English Language Teaching via a four-week CELTA at Westminster College (and,
22-04-2020
Back to School Part Three: lessons of forgetting and laughter
They say that learning a foreign language is a good way of avoiding dementia in later life, but with learning
21-04-2020
Twenty Things in Twenty Years Part Two: Troubling trouble when trouble troubles you!
There are plenty of things that you generally don’t learn on a four-week CELTA course: how bizarre many of the
21-04-2020
Twenty Things In Twenty Years Part One: Falling Into A Me-Shaped Hole
In much the same way as I once found it inconceivable that I’d ever suffer the indignity of reaching the
20-04-2020
Back to school Part 2: TomAYto TomARto
In my last post, I described two basic routes to learning language as a means of communication. At this point,
20-03-2020
Back to school: Part One
As you may have noticed, we recently wrote a Beginner’s book and I have written a series of posts exploring
11-02-2020
Beyond word lists: eight ways to get more from the OUTCOMES Vocabulary Builder
One of the more innovative add-ons that accompanies the OUTCOMES series of General English coursebooks we wrote for National Geographic
20-01-2020
A different kind of Beginner-level book 5: Pronunciation
Pronunciation:  Really? Do I have to? While the bulk of Beginner coursebooks on the market are pretty uniform when it
05-01-2020
Five things I’ve learned from running the ENGLISH QUESTIONS ANSWERED group
One of the side-effects of being a coursebook writer and teacher with a relatively high social media profile is that
27-11-2019