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Chia Suan Chong looks at what English teachers teach apart from language. In this issue, she considers visual literacy.

Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits & pieces, quotations, snippets, odds & ends on the theme of silence. Includes photocopiable materials. 

Christopher Walker believes that teachers’ experience of online teaching during the Covid lockdown has revealed the need for a rethink of some digital materials.

Nicky Hockly answers five questions about developments in learning technologies over the past decade.

Unlock Level 4 Second EditionReading, Writing & Critical Thinking Student’s BookChris Sowton and Alan S. KennedyCambridge University Press (2019)See page 88 for detailsUnlock Second Edition is a six-level academic skills course offered by Cambridge University Press. The series is organised into six levels of difficulty (corresponding to CEFR Pre-A1–C1), each aimed at equipping learners with the skills and language they require for their studies. Unlock Basic Skills integrates reading, writing, listening, speaking and critical thinking in one book, while Unlock Levels 1–5 each consist of two separate Student’s Books per level, i.e. Reading, Writing and Critical Thinking and Listening,...

Chia Suan Chong reviews 50 Ways to Teach Life Skills: Tips for ESL/EFL Teachers by Emily Bryson.

Alex Case describes how teachers can use dominoes and cards in matching games and other activities as a fun way to get students to practice language. Includes photocopiable materials. 

A celebration of randomness:  intrigue your students and get them practising their reading and speaking skills with this integrated skills worksheet about randomness. 

Difficult to teach? Difficult to learn? John Hughes considers pronunciation teaching in coursebooks.

David Heathfield tells a tale and supplies seven creative tasks.

Paul Bress offers a blueprint for teaching phonology.

John Potts looks at what prompts our choice of continuous tense forms.

Andrew Radford explains how Talking Tins, devices intended to help the visually impaired identify the contents of food tins, can have multiple uses in the ELT classroom.

David Matthews encourages teachers to get onto the same wavelength as their teenage learners.

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 considers the time we spend looking at computer screens, and the implications for young learners.