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Margaret Horrigan colour-codes sounds for her students.

Robin Walker finds that music provides pronunciation practice for free.

Rachael Roberts encourages her learners to notice and process words.

Distinction and Dichotomies explores pairs of linguistic and pedagogic terms, Hre Roger Hunt introduces two of his heroes.

Alex Case reviews a first stop for vocabulary exercises

Stephen Paton states hismission in a bid to reducestudent resistance.

Difficult to teach? Difficult to learn? John Hughes discussed front and back vowels.

Pete Sharma considers the ideal blend of teacher and technology.

Pete Sharma blends the computer with the language classroom.

In the first of a new series on how short films can be used critically and creatively in language education, Kieran Donaghy explains why short films are an excellent resource.

Richard Harrisonfavours explicit teaching ofcritical thinking.

John Potts examines when ‘will’ isn’t a future form.

In this series, Nicky Hockly explains aspects of technology which some people may be embarrassed to confess that they don’t really understand. In this article, she invites you to attend free online events and conferences available to English language teachers.

More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all worked for ETp readers. Try them out for yourself – and then send us your own contribution. All the contributors to It Works in Practice in this issue of ETp will be given a copy of 700 Classroom Activities by David Seymour and Maria Popova, published by Macmillan in their Teacher Development series. Macmillan have kindly agreed to be sponsors of It Works in Practice for this year.

Ben Moorhouse gets to grips with another multitude of names.