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A piece of cake

Paul Bress reveals his recipe for teaching idioms.

Celebrity culture

Lindsay Clandfield contemplates the constellations of stars in our coursebooks.

Preparing to teach:get

John Potts gets to grips with a versatile verb

CD-ROM: past, present and future

Pete Sharma celebrates developments in technology which bring current benefits for teachers and learners alike.

Preparing to teach: getting things done

John Potts considers what people do for us or to us

Preparing to teach: infinitive or gerund?

John Potts looks at why we choose each form.

Whiteboards, whiteboards everywhere

Alberto Fornasier finds magic in having multiple boards.

Cracking contraption, Gromit!

Daniel Mills and Sean Toland present a highly inventive activity.

From disaster to perfection… to disaster again

A wealth of insights and advice shared by Alberto Fornasier, who has just survived his first year of teaching English to young learners in Italy.

The building blocks of grammar

Ken Milgate identifies the need for proper grammar training.

Content under the spotlight

Chris Roland sheds light on getting the sorts of lessons we want.

Scrapbook: New perspectives

A funny story about perspectives which you could use to initiate a discussion on how culture and expectations affect our viewpoints.

Fun for everyone

Simon Mumford adapts some games for lively language learning.

Abracadabra!

Chris Payne has some magic tricks up his sleeve.

I think, therefore I learn: using mental frameworks to aid language learning

Tessa Woodward uses mental frameworks to aid language learning.