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Huma Hasna Riaz Ahmed presents an idea for a morale-boosting online lesson that encourages the students to look forward to a world beyond Covid 19 and offers hope for the future.

As you might expect, I have received a flurry of ‘virus-themed’ articles over the past month or so, and you will find a number of these in this issue of ETp. I have chosen those that I felt could offer the most helpful advice to teachers struggling with the changeover to online teaching – and those that would present a beacon of hope in difficult times.

Alan Maley is off with the fairies.

Hua Yuan and Zhenhui Rao advocate the use of roleplay with large classes.

Alan Maley ponders what it means to be a teacher.

Reviews of The Literacy for Active Citizenship readers series, and Focus on Grammar and Meaning by Luciana C de Oliveira and Mary J Schleppegrell.

Stephanie Hirschman find fun in folding.

Editor Robert McLarty introduces the latest issue of MET and looks at what the future holds for the English language.

Teaching Adult English Language Learners: A Practical IntroductionBetsy ParrishCambridge University Press: Better Learning (2019)This book includes a collection of key Adult English Language Learning (AELL) issues that form the core of many teaching AELL programmes or courses. Although I have been a language teacher trainer and mentor for almost 20 years, I feel that for me this book offers tremendous value in terms of the depth of understanding of issues that Parrish relays, and the useful refreshing approaches and suggestions that are made about core aspects of ELT. The explanations, tasks and resources included in each chapter and the...

Readers will find plenty to think about in this issue on the theme of enquiring within. In our main feature, Jason Anderson champions reflection, taking it beyond a rather introspective process in which we critically examine what happened in a lesson we have taught, to a more dynamic process, involving reflection whilst we teach, which has greater potential for enabling us to change direction if necessary.

Paul Bress revisits the role of the teacher.

Nicky Hockly answers five questions about how teachers can help their students resist the distraction caused by mobile phones.

Sandi Ferdiansyah reflects on his experience as a non-English speaking writer trying to get his articles published in English-language magazines and journals.

Chia Suan Chong looks at what English teachers teach apart from language. In this issue, she looks at coaching and what it has to offer to language teachers.

This is my 25th issue of the magazine and a lot has changed in my life and in the teaching world over that period of six years. Obviously the major change for me is that I am now teaching and training in New Zealand and, in so many ways, it is very different to life back in Oxford. More of that later. Another change which is becoming more and more apparent as the years go by is that good teaching resources are being produced by local practitioners and are of immediate use in the local conditions. This is reflected...