Thursday, June 5, 2025

Reviews & Resources

Business Vocabulary in Use: Advanced

Third edition Bill Mascull Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781316628225 This solid 176-page resource book has a familiar format: the left-hand page contains explanations of business vocabulary and the...

Our World 3

Second Edition Rob Sved National Geographic Learning ISBN 9780357032046 This is the A1 Level of a seven-level course for young learners. The cross- curricular approach provides topics spanning...

ETpedia™: Teacher Training

500 ideas for teacher training in English language teaching Beth Melia-Leigh and Nicholas Northall Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd ISBN 9781913414160 This 268-page resource book provides ideas for...

Mentoring teachers to research their classrooms

A free-to-download practical handbook from the British Council Mentoring Teachers to Research Their Classrooms: A Practical Handbook By Richard Smith (University of Warwick, UK) British Council India,...

Making the grade in extensive reading

Matt Salusbury introduces the books on this year's ERF shortlist This year’s crop of 17 shortlisted titles have just been announced for The Extensive Reading...

Perspectives – Upper Intermediate Student’s Book

Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley (Series authors also include Daniel Barber, Amanda Jeffries and Lewis Lansford) National Geographic Learning ISBN: 9781337277181 In a world of fake news,...

Get dramatic in the (virtual) classroom

Walton Burns talks about how to use play scripts to teach pragmatics – even online! Shakespeare wrote “All the world’s a stage and all the...

Personal Narratives of Teaching Epiphanies

Wayne Trotman reviews a new edited volume from Alan Maley Developing Expertise Through Experience Edited by Alan Maley British Council, 2019 ISBN: 978-0-86355-950-1 On the inside cover of this...

Language Course Planning

Brian North, Mila Angelova, Elƶbieta Jarosz and Richard Rossner OUP ISBN: 9780194403283 This 216-page book, in the ‘Language Education Management’ series, draws on the cumulative expertise of...

ETpedia™ Management: 500 ideas for managing an English Language school

Fiona Dunlop, Keith Harding and Robert McLarty Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd ISBN: 9781912755271 Language teachers moving into management positions often find themselves learning ‘on the job’....