Author of the month: Carol Read
Young Learners expert Carol Read explains how her love of Latin America was responsible for her career choice. She now lives in Madrid and one of her favourite things is watching the children she teaches laugh at her jokes. She also brings joy to onestopenglish this month with the first part of her Amazing world of animals project.
Your English: Idioms: truth and lies
Who says we're bored at the thought of another idioms article by Tim Bowen? Nothing could be further from the truth.
Your English
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Your English: Idioms: time
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: some lonely phrasal verbs 5
Whether you prefer to leaf through or mull over this gloomy article, you will certainly experience the joylessness of an English winter with Tim Bowen's latest collection of lonely phrasal verbs.
Author of the month
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Author of the month: Carol Read
Young Learners expert Carol Read explains how her love of Latin America was responsible for her career choice. She now lives in Madrid and one of her favourite things is watching the children she teaches laugh at her jokes. She also brings joy to onestopenglish this month with the first part of her Amazing world of animals project. -
Author of the month: Keith Kelly
King of onestopclil, Keith Kelly reveals all about his love affair with Bulgaria, shares tales of a tough introduction to teaching in Bristol and gives a modest tip for budding CLIL authors.
Featured school
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Featured school
Onestopenglish has hundreds of thousands of users across the globe. Here we get up close and personal with members of the onestopenglish community to find out more about how our resources are being used by teachers and schools in real situations. -
Featured school: Solihull College ESOL School
Lesley Duffin, from Solihull College's ESOL School, tells us how the materials in the Audio and Podcasts section of onestopenglish have played a key part in developing her students' listening skills, and explains that it's easy to integrate onestopenglish resources into an ESOL curriculum.
Teachers' diaries
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Diary from Bhutan: Gross National Happiness for teachers
Stephanie Earnshaw tells us about celebrating Bhutanese New Year in her eighth diary entry. She also has stories to share about the school’s new intake of PP (pre-primary) students, the challenges of teaching phonics and a feathered gatecrasher. Hopefully, the implementation in schools of Gross National Happiness – an idea of the fourth king of Bhutan – will keep morale high. - Teachers' diaries
Teachers' letters
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Class report from Madagascar
Teacher trainer Louise Cooper tells us about eager, far-travelling teachers and thinking on her feet in rural Madagascar, in the fifth of our class reports in collaboration with the Guardian Weekly. -
Class report from the Refugee Council
In another absorbing Class report, in collaboration with the Guardian Weekly, we interview Elizabeth Gowans about the challenges and rewards of teaching students at the Refugee Council in Hounslow, south-west London.
Teacher anecdotes
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Anecdote: Make yourself at home
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Going solo
Patricia Renou delivers a Christmas cracker of an anecdote that had the onestopenglish team singing along to a catchy Christmas classic …
Word of the week
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Word of the week: Trivial
Have you ever been to a dinner party and tried to impress others with unimportant facts? Chances are that you engaged in some trivial conversation. Tim Bowen presents us with some trivia surrounding the origin of this Word of the week. -
Word of the week: Laconic
Tim Bowen delves into Greek history to explain the origin of this terse Word of the week.
Phrase of the week
Culture
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Festivals: Bonfire night
Worksheets and accompanying teacher's notes based on Bonfire night. - Culture
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