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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 this issue will receive a digital subscription to Modern English Teacher.

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 receive a free copy of Sound Foundations by Adrian Underhill, published by Macmillan. Macmillan have kindly agreed to be sponsors of It Works in Practice for the coming year and contributors will be given copies of books in their Teacher Development Series.

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 receive a free copy of Nick Owen’s The Magic of Metaphor, published by Crown House Publishing.

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 contributors to It Works In Practice in this issue of ETp receive a free copy of Uncovering Grammar by Scott Thornbury (published by Macmillan Heinemann) which will be reviewed in the next issue.

Teacher Wellbeingby Sarah Mercer and Tammy Gregersen OUP 2020 978-0-19-440563-8This timely book encourages teachers to think about themselves for a change. The stresses of being a teacher are well documented and often include heavy workloads, ever-increasing amounts of admin, lack of financial rewards, lack of support and/or respect from parents and employers, difficult students, time spent in preparing lessons and materials, and other out-of-hours requirements ... the list goes on. Sometimes, you wonder why anyone would want to become a teacher in the first place – and it’s easy to see why burnout is a serious problem in our...

Roger Gower takes more than his fair share of books to his desert island.

Mohamed Elhess proposes a step-by-step procedure that uses online news stories as a way of catering for the diverse interests and language abilities of a class of students.

English for Academic Study: Grammar for writing is a study book designed to help prepare you for studying in an English speaking academic environment.

Mark Hancock insists that working with authentic recordings is a valuable investment.

We all get feedback from our students and some of it, sometimes, is likely to be, shall we say, ‘less than positive’. Paul Bress looks at how we might respond.

‘Are we teaching the right language?’ asks Roger Hunt.

Frances Hotimsky presents a personalised version of the phonemic chart.

Alan Maley considers ability and disability.

Jane Neill makes a little go a long way.

John Field accepts the improvements in listening methodology but rejects complacency.