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This month we think you should... enter the Lesson Share competition! Our Lesson Share competition has launched several successful writing careers, like that of our onestopenglish Author of the month, Lindsay Clandfield. We ask about his teaching and writing career and find out just what makes him tick in this revealing interview.

Teachers from Academia Blue Door had the right idea and have impressed us with some great winning lessons. Find out what Head Teacher, Paul Ashe, has to say about how his teachers use onestopenglish.

Download this free Lesson Share poster to put up in your staff room. Go on, share the love!

Calling all summer school teachers! Onestopenglish is packed with hundreds of bright ideas for your summer school programme. We've picked out a selection of resources that we think will help make for a stress-free summer.

New for June 2008

Author of the month: Lindsay Clandfield

One of onestopenglish's longest-standing authors, Lindsay Clandfield, talks to us about his life and work, offering some great tips on how to become a top ELT author.

Featured school: Academia Blue Door

Teachers from Academia Blue Door in Córdoba, Spain, have impressed us with some great winning entries to the onestopenglish Lesson Share competition. We talk to Head Teacher, Paul Ashe, about his school, how his teachers use onestopenglish and how he believes the Lesson Share competition can play an important part in an institution's teacher development programme.

Summer school resources

Onestopenglish is packed with hundreds of bright ideas for your summer school programme. Take a look at some of these resources and make yours a stress-free summer!

Your English: Idioms: drunk

Tim Bowen goes synonym-crazy and takes us through the many different ways to say that someone is drunk.

Your English: Phrasal verbs: fall

Tim Bowen goes into some detail about the dire consequences of falling for his advice.

Your English: Idioms: popping your clogs

Tim Bowen explains how euphemisms can help us talk about unpleasant or embarrassing topics.

Your English: Word grammar: rather

Would we like to read Tim Bowen's explanation of the origins of this interesting word? Rather!

Competitions

Onestopenglish runs several monthly competitions which give you the opportunity to share your ideas and experiences with other teachers and to win great prizes at the same time.

New this month: Celebrity scandal and Anne Frank

Do the results of the reading survey surprise you? How similar is the situation in your country? How much does it matter what young people read?

Your English: Collocations: set

Tim Bowen sets out to explore the many varied collocates of this verb.

Onestop Phonics: Introduction

A comprehensive introduction to the Onestop Phonics series for young learners by Rachel Finnie. The article includes an explanation of what phonics is, approaches to teaching phonics and an outline of the modules in the Onestop Phonics series.

Your English: Collocations: draw

Tim Bowen draws attention to the collocates of this versatile word.

A crow

Danute Jankauskiene wins the Teacher anecdotes competition with this tale of misunderstanding and accidently insulting a student.

Lesson Share competition poster

Download and print this Lesson Share poster to put up in your staff room!

Your English: Phrasal verbs: step

Tim Bowen steps forward to offer his explanation of how this versatile word can be used to form several different phrasal verbs.

Your English: Word grammar: even

Tim Bowen provides us with an even balance of the varied uses of this word.

Your English: Phrasal verbs: knock

Tim Bowen knocks us out with his explanation of this entertaining phrasal verb.

Teen Talk: Does your status need an update?

Lindsay Clandfield kicks off a new monthly column, Teen Talk, in conjunction with the Learning English section of Guardian Weekly. This month, Lindsay suggests five ways to take Facebook into the ELT classroom.

Video projects: Give us a job!

In this instalment of the integrated skills series by Jackie McAvoy, students produce a short video or audio recording of a job application.