Thursday, June 5, 2025

Reviews & Resources

Occupational English Test Prep

Nursing and Medicine: Speaking and Writing By Ros Wright ISBN: 978-1-4715-9698-8 Express Publishing, 2020 All Professions: Reading and Listening By Tom Fassnidge ISBN: 978-1-4715-9700-8 Express Publishing, 2020 The Occupational English Test (OET)...

A compelling narrative

Wayne Trotman is hooked on a story-telling resource for teachers Story-based Language Teaching Jeremy Harmer and Herbert Puchta Helbling, 2018 ISBN: 978-3-99045-769-6 ‘Stories matter to all of...

Structuring Fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom

Chris Roland Pavilion Publishing and Media ISBN: 9781913414535 This 364-page resource book starts with the premise that teaching young learners can be fun. It offers a wealth...

Testing for Language Teachers

3rd Edition Arthur Hughes and Jake Hughes Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781108714822 The main aim of the updated Third Edition of this book remains unchanged: to help teachers...

Double Decker 3

Pupil’s Book Macmillan Education ISBN: 9781380035776 Double Decker is a four-level primary course which integrates print and digital material. The six topic-based units in this slim, 60-page...

How to demystify grammar

Andrew Rossiter discusses how to get over our hang-ups about teaching grammar Last week I heard from an old friend, an experienced teacher who has...

Empathy, not sympathy

Ros Wright helps trainers preparing candidates for OET Speaking I often start OET Speaking sessions with a quote from the 20th century Canadian physician William...

Teaching Tracks: Top Ten

www.teachingtracks.co.uk Chris Walklett, 2020 ISBN: 978-1-916058-86-6 While recent reviews in this column have tended to focus heavily on aspects of teacher development from mainstream publishers, on this...

Ideas for remote Zoom lessons

Anastasia Antonova explores solutions and workarounds for some common issues when working with Zoom The situation we now find ourselves in with Covid-19 has led...

A fitting tribute

Lessons and Legacy: A Tribute to Professor Cyril J Weir (1950–2018) Edited by Lynda Taylor and Nick Saville Cambridge Studies in Language Testing Volume 50 Cambridge University...