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Your English: Phrasal verbs: get (6)

Don’t let phrasal verbs get to you. Tim Bowen is here to help you get through this tricky batch.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: get (5)

Tim Bowen is here to help you get out of studying phrasal verbs with his latest round-up.

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Teaching EAP: Literature: Teaching academic writing

Dr Chris Lima offers advice on ways to teach academic writing in EAP classes.

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IELTS practical tips: Encouraging different types of reading

IELTS teacher Iffaf Khan offers practical tips and strategies to help students to improve their reading skills for the IELTS exam.

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Pronunciation skills with Adrian Underhill: Overcoming common pronunciation challenges

In the last article in this series, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at how to overcome common pronunciation problems.

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Teaching Business English: Being direct

In this article, Ed Pegg looks at the issue of how to deal with directness in your Business English classes.

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First steps into ...using digital to support students who are learning at different paces

Students learn at different paces. Daniel Barber introduces the benefits of using digital to support mixed-level classes and suggests some practical tips.

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Tech Tasks: Three tasks that work with technology

In this article, Tom Walton suggests three tasks that can be used with technology to improve writing and speaking skills.

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Teaching EAP: Literature: Top ten tips for EAP tutors and learners

Dr Chris Lima offers ten top tips on the basic concepts tutors and learners should keep in mind during EAP programmes.

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Pronunciation skills: Consonants – consciously rediscovering the ON and OFF voice buttons

In his latest article, ELT pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at consonants and how consciously rediscoving the ON and OFF voice buttons can benefit both your teaching and your students’ learning.

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Pronunciation skills: Long and short sounds /ɑː/ /ʌ/ and /ɒ/

Which sound do you make when you’re having a massage? And what is the noise of having a whole orange in your mouth? In this video, Adrian answers these unusual questions and uses mime to help demonstrate the physicality of each sound.

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Pronunciation skills: Minimal pairs /θ/ and /ð/

In this video, Adrian looks at the minimal pairand and /θ/ and /ð/ and shows us how to make each sound in a simple and effective way while giving advice on how to gain control of the physicality needed to produce each sound.

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Pronunciation skills: The idiot sounds /ɜː/ and /ə/

Did you know that there is not one but two idiot sounds in the phonetic chart? In this video, pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the visibility and the physicality of these sounds, helping learners with the long vowel sound /ɜː/ and the most famous of all the phonemes, the schwa /ə/

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Pronunciation skills: Off the map sounds /ɔː/ /æ/ and /e/

How can you teach pronunciation without using any sounds? In this video, Adrian helps show us by using mime to introduce us to some ‘off the map’ sounds and demonstrates us how we can identify sounds in relations to their neighbours on the phonetic chart.

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Words from other languages: Scandinavian languages

Tim Bowen makes sure you don’t go berserk with his handy guide to words from Scandinavian languages.

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Theme-based expressions: music

It’s time to make a song and dance about Your English with these musically themed expressions.

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Your English: Idioms: jump

Jump the queue and improve your English with this latest set of idioms from Tim Bowen.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: get (4)

Don’t let phrasal verbs get you down, as Tim Bowen is here to help with his latest Your English round-up.

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Lesson Share: IELTS writing task 1 – line graphs

Mairi Joanne Anderson wins the Lesson Share competition, focusing on how to describe trends and statistics in IELTS writing task 1.

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Compass: Lesson 10: Preparing a project

In this tenth lesson, students practice preparing interview data for presentation.