Friday, June 6, 2025

Reviews & Resources

How to Cook Up an English Class

Gill Ragsdale gives seven top tips for teaching English with food 1 Collect students’ recipes Before introducing a recipe, test your students’ knowledge of food nouns...

Business Partner B2

I. Dubicka, M. Rosenberg, B. Dignen, M. Hogan, L. Wright Pearson ISBN: 978-1-29-223356-7 This extensive business-English coursebook focuses on ‘workplace English’ and covers both communication and business...

Making strides with metacognition

Gill Ragsdale explains the power of thinking aloud ‘We do not learn from experience…. we learn from reflecting on experience’, John Dewey, educational psychologist. One...

Everything you need to know about EFL but they were afraid to tell you…

Wayne Trotman welcomes the new, complete, evidence-based guide THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Edited by Anne Burns and Jack C....

ETPedia™ Grammar

500 ideas and activities for teaching grammar Daniel Barber and Ceri Jones Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd ISBN: 978-1-912-75502-8 This hefty, 242-page resource book contains a mixture of...

The New A-Z of ELT

A Dictionary of Terms and Concepts Scott Thornbury Macmillan Education ISBN: 978-1-786-32788-8 The title of this well-established reference book is self-explanatory. I loved the first version, which appeared...

Alan Maley’s 50 Creative Activities

Alan Maley Cambridge University Press ISBN: 978-1-10-845776-7 Creativity involves aspects of innovation, quality and relevance. We recognise it, even if it is difficult to define. The activities...

Absolutely enchanting – Innova Reading Bookshelf Series

Children’s tales are irresistible to readers, says Wayne Trotman What a delight it was to open this series of books for younger learners. Containing seven...

Succeeding with subtitles

An experiment with Spanish students of English at B2 Level, previously reported in the Gazette, showed that watching movies with subtitles in English improved...

High impact at lower levels

Interested in using authentic videos with lower level learners? – Lewis Lansford explains how. It’s a great time to be an English learner, with easy...