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More listening or better listeners?

John Field believes that learners benefit from focused practice.

Preparing to teach: type 1 conditionals

John Potts explores one type of conditional.

The Corporate Domain 1

Catherine Leuz steps out of the classroom and finds the sky's the limit

Rude students

Paul Bress tackles the issue of anti-social behaviour.

Preparing to teach: cloud

John Potts’s explanations of a multi-functional modal go swimmingly.

Dog days

William Chaves Gomes invites us to do a little Dogme in our lessons.

For local teachers, by local teachers

Jon Marks describes his experience of training teachers to write materials.

Marginal gains reap major rewards: giving your teaching the edge

Stephen Reilly believes small changes can improve our teaching.

A positive learning experience

Paul Bress gives advice to help guarantee successful teaching.

Over the wall: science fiction books

Alan Maley is gripped by a genre that goes beyond tales of little green men.

Reviews September 2020

Teaching English to Pre-Primary Childrenby Sandie Mourão with Gail Ellis Delta Publishing 2020 978-3-12-501399-5Children across the globe are being introduced to English at increasingly earlier ages. Anyone with access to the internet can find a multitude of activities and ideas requiring little preparation and promising hours of fun, while also teaching young children a new language. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Professionals working with very young children know that this is not the case: in order to teach languages to children, we need to have a very good understanding of how children develop and learn. For specialist language teachers who...

Preparing to teach: ‘used to’

John Potts differentiates between ‘used to do’ and ‘used to doing’.

Preparing to teach

John Potts points out that the difference is not so clear cut.

Lexical availability

Chris Payne analyses available words as opposed to frequent words.

Lights, camera, action! Digital storytelling

Katie Alaniz delights her students with digital storytelling.