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Your English: Collocations: drinking

Does your country have a strong drinking culture? Tim Bowen quenches your thirst for some  of these alcohol-related collocations.

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Your English: Idioms: furniture

Don’t sweep your problems with idioms under the carpet! Address them by reading this article by Tim Bowen.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: pull

Tim Bowen’s pulled out all the stops to bring you another stunning article on phrasal verbs!

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Tech Tools for Teachers: Social Questionnaires

Nik Peachey explores social questionnaires and how we can use them to create motivating classroom and homework tasks.

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A ghost's guide to London: Episode 3: Notting Hill

Lord Jeffrey, the Ghost of London, takes students on an audio tour of the Notting Hill area. In this lesson students will: learn about the Notting Hill; practise listening for gist and reconstructing audio stories from memory; compare and contrast standard forms of English with colloquial expressions and then practise ...

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Business Spotlight: Outdoor office

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, features a man who has managed to turn his hobby into his career and start an ecological consultancy business.

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Your English: Word grammar: wonder

A little dose of word grammar from Tim Bowen works wonders, you know!

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Explanations: Science

Keith Kelly looks at examples of language used in delivering questions and explanations from the area of science, covering wh- question words, statements as questions, asking for explanations, possibility and uncertainty, explaining a process and conjunction phrases.

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Your English: Collocations: discrepancy

Back to the rescue, Tim Bowen is here to correct any discrepancies between your understanding and the correct formation of collocations.

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Your English: Idioms: roof

Have you ever hit or gone through the roof? Tim Bowen is here to calm your nerves and explain a few idioms along the way.

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A local’s guide to the 50 best places to visit in London

OK, we LOVE London, there’s no hiding it. It’s unique, exceptional, scary and exciting all at once and there’s so much to do. Here is a list of the top 50 not-to-be-missed places in London.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: pack

Tim Bowen packs in a plethora of phrasal verbs to keep your brain busy.

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A ghost’s guide to London: Episode 2: King’s Road

Lord Jeffrey, the Ghost of London, takes students on a swinging audio tour of the King’s Road. In this lesson students will: learn about the King’s Road; practise listening for gist and reconstructing audio stories from memory; compare and contrast standard forms of English with colloquial expressions and then practise ...

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Bliss: Part 4

Part 4 of this story concludes with Bertha falling victim to a grave misunderstanding. In this lesson, the students will: predict the ending of the story; listen for detail; discuss the meaning and symbolism of the story; explore the adoption of characters’ voices when storytelling; act out a dialogue between ...

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Business Spotlight: Fighting back

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about different forms of bullying in the workplace and ways to tackle them.

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Lesson Share: ESP: The future of computers?

Phil Wade wins the lesson share competition with a specialist lesson for IT students that profiles the Raspberry Pi pocket computer and covers common IT abbreviations.

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Your English: Word grammar: lot

Like this article by Tim Bowen? There’re lots more where that came from …

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Explanations: Geography

Keith Kelly looks at examples of language used in delivering questions and explanations from the area of geography, covering wh- question words, statements as questions, asking for explanations, possibility and uncertainty, explaining a process and conjunction phrases.

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Your English: Collocations: dilemma

Never fear! Tim Bowen’s here to resolve your collocation dilemmas.

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Your English: Idioms: word

Not for the first time, Tim Bowen’s article on idioms is too brilliant for words.