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Scrapbook: cash

By teachers for teachers: gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles about cash

Digital teachers’ rooms – using online platforms to enhance physical space

Rose Aylett describes putting the teachers’ room online.

Swearing in class

Simon Dunton canvasses students and teachers on whether we should study swear words and how we could.

Getting personal: making set material less rigid

Enda Scott suggests that one way to overcome the limitations of curriculum constraints and obligatory teaching materials is to get the students to personalise the material themselves.

Preparing to teach: gerunds

John Potts examines verbal nouns.

It works in practice – 119

An activity using Jenga blocks; an activity using the idea of ‘odd one out’ in a variety of different scenarios in It works in practice.

Team teaching

Native or non-native speaker teachers? Simon Andrewes offers the best of both worlds.

Dramatic results

Trev Hill enthuses over the effectiveness of student drama projects.

What role can the flipped classroom play in language teaching?

Russell Stannard looks at this approach as a way of making more use of our time with learners.

Issue 103: getting more from students, teachers and materials

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

Not only, but also: Time-management skills

Chia Suan Chong looks at what English teachers teach apart from language. In this issue, she looks at how you can teach time-management to your students.

Improvisation

David Heathfield champions creative communication.

Ghoulish games

Jamie Clayton enlists the aid of the living dead.

Internet jigsaws

Jason Anderson describes an activity which can increase cooperation and communication.

Mobile technologies, friend or foe?

Kat Robb argues that the smartphone should be welcomed into the classroom and beyond.
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