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Significant Others

Mark Krzanowski brings like-minded people together for special purposes.

This is your pilot speaking: a poem to help students slow down

John Kay explains how he uses a poem to teach students in the aviation industry how to speak with greater clarity and at the regulation speed of 100 words per minute.

Scrapbook: Mirrors

Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits & pieces, quotations, snippets, odds & ends, what you will.  

Preparing to teach: passives

John Potts’s attention is activated by the passive voice

Preparing to teach: likelihood, assumptions and deductions

John Potts looks at how to express degrees of probability

Preparing to teach: present perfect simple and experience(s)

John Potts looks at how we express life experiences.

Preparing to teach: expressing need and necessity

John Potts examines what students need to know.

Preparing to teach: some, any, every and no

John Potts looks at some common combinations.

Preparing to teach: emphasis

What John Potts looks at in this issue is highlighting information.

Preparing to teach: multi-word verbs in context

John Potts gets to grips with phrasal verbs.

Preparing to teach: perfect aspect

John Potts turns his attention to perfect forms

Preparing to teach: present perfect simple and just, already, yet

John Potts has written some practical advice on a tricky area of grammar, but the series hasn’t finished yet!

Preparing to teach: expressing results

John Potts considers cause and effect.

Preparing to teach…can

John Potts displays his potential.

Preparing to teach: confusable pairs

John Potts differentiates between some words which are often confused.