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Enda Scott offers essential advice for taking control of online teaching, overcoming its challenges and exploiting its potential advantages in order to achieve success.

Helbling Graded ReadersFor full details of individual titles, see www.helblinglanguages.com.There seems to have been an upsurge in interest in extended reading over recent years, with the result that some ELT publishers are investing a considerable amount of time and energy in producing new graded readers, with ever-more-sophisticated add-ons. Gone are the days when yet another simplified version of Jack London’s Call of the Wild or Dickens’s Great Expectations would hit the shelves – accompanied by a CD, if you were lucky! Now, the CD is obligatory and there is often a website with interactive games and activities and further...

In a new series, Chaz Pugliese poses five questions to people involved in the world of ELT. In this issue, he talks to Adrian Underhill. Adrian Underhill is a teacher, trainer and consultant; he is a past president of IATEFL and author of Sound Foundations, published by Macmillan.

Rachael Roberts continues her series on adapting your coursebook to suit your classes. In this article, she does something different with comprehension questions.

James Pengelley explores the benefits of task repetition.

A suggestion for differentiated writing and a collection of six successful activities in It works in practice.

Clare Fielder looks at the effects of different types of feedback.

Lesley Lanir concludes her series on learning disabilities looking into oral fluency.

Editor Helena Gomm wishes readers a Happy New Year and outlines what's in store for January's English Teaching professional.

Alan Maley examines the wonders of memory and the terrors of forgetting.

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Simon Mumford creates some new ways to explain grammar.

Grant Hartley shows us how we can help learners acquire language and become active members of a social group.

Mad grammar rules: in this article, we cover new words; Latin plurals; tricky word sets and the origins of odd words.

Five activities involving collaboration and teamwork in It works in practice.