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More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all worked for ETp readers.

Caireen Sever addresses high-level, high-status learners.

In his third featuring film article, Kieran Donaghy looks at using short films to teach vocabulary.

Benjamin Moorhouse exploits the popular genre of fan fiction to encourage young learners to write adaptations of stories they have read and enjoyed.

Lenora Haranaka's students improve their speaking skills outside class.

Sean H Toland uses travel vlogs to inspire his students to plan their own. 

Chia Suan Chong looks at what English teachers teach apart from language. In this issue, she looks at mindfulness and how it can help both students and teachers.

Nicky Hockly answers five questions about managing mobile devices in the classroom.

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.

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 explores how digital games relate to language learning.

There are books which offer relevant theory and books which offer rich resources. Teaching Lexically satisfies on both counts.

Textploitation: Mining texts for all they are worthby David Byrne and Mark Heffernan Delta Publishing 2020 978-3-12-501579-1This is a book for teachers who would like to get more out of the texts they use in class. It has been written by two highly-experienced teachers and bloggers (more about their blog later). In the book’s introduction, the authors, David Byrne and Mark Heffernan, explain what motivated them to write Textploitation. They felt that texts were often underused in the classroom, and that they had the potential to be used to a greater extent to help students with vocabulary, grammar and...

ETp editor Helena Gomm introduces the articles uploaded from the latest issue.

Activities using photos, an activity involving creating superheroes, a suggestion for using a music app and an idea for offering more challenge to advanced students.

Motivational Teaching by Nick ThornerOUP 2017 978-0-19-420042-4Motivation is an area of teaching that all teachers strive to improve on. Motivating a group of students can be quite a challenge, as what one class might find motivating others might find highly demotivating.Motivational Teaching offers a wealth of tips and ideas for increasing motivation in the language classroom. The book is intended for teachers of primary and secondary school students, but many of the techniques and tasks could be used with adult learners as well. In fact, the author’s stated aims include raising learner motivation across ages, abilities and backgrounds.The book...