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A book I’ve used – Empower

Empower has a grammar reference with exercises, vocabulary focus, audioscripts, a section on phonemic symbols, pronunciation exercises and a list of irregular verbs.

Teaching Tip – February

In the February instalment of our Teaching Tip series, Vanessa Reis-Esteves provides ways of learning interactively in the classroom.

Preparing to teach…Vocabulary 1

John Potts considers some of the components of teaching new vocabulary items.

Using diagrams to support advanced reading activities

Simon Mumford shows how students can find order in texts and visualise difficult concepts

Teaching Legal English

Peter Read argues that this strand of ESP is becoming increasingly important in "Teaching Legal English".

Managing teens

Fari Greenaway aims to turn bad behaviour into good.

English for texting

Paul Bress hs 5 pts to hlp U.

English teaching pronunciation: sound and spelling

Difficult to teach? Difficult to learn? John Hughes looks at sounds and spellings.

Eye on the classroom: snapshots of a lesson

A regular series by John Hughes, with practical ideas for observing teachers in the classroom and an observation sheet to photocopy and use straight away. In this article, John looks at how to use sketches during observation.

Five things you always wanted to know about using mobile devices at school (but were too afraid to ask)

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 discusses how schools can start using mobile devices with students in a principled manner.

A riveting good read!

Peter Viney shares his views and experiences of graded readers.

Fast speech frustrations

Listening to fast speech and non-standard accents often presents difficulties to learners even when they reach higher levels. Olya Sergeeva explains how she uses YouTube to help her students to identify spoken expressions more easily.

It works in practice – 117

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.

Fun with phonology 2

Mark Fletcher stresses the importance of getting the intonation right.

National Traits

Bryan Meadows stepsbeyond stereotypes to teachintercultural skills.