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Your English: Idioms: back

Think you know idioms like the back of your hand ? Tim Bowen refuses to turn his back on these tricky expressions.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: work (1)

Work off the stress of the day with another of Tim Bowen’s handy guides to phrasal verbs.

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Your English: Word grammar: double

Tim Bowen gives us double the fun in his examination of this versatile word.

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Survival Guide: First classes

Prepare yourself for an influx of new students with twenty exciting activities to kick off the new term in style.

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Business Spotlight: Money, money, money

This lesson, which is based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about money and how attitudes to money differ between cultures and countries. T

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How to write vocabulary activities

In an extract from ELT Teacher2Writer ’s training module, Philip Kerr offers some helpful tips on how to go about writing vocabulary activities, considering word selection, word frequency and grouping vocabulary items.  

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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 10: Cambodia

In their tenth travelogue, Rich and Nick journey to Cambodia where they meet Sokha, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime and founder of the Center for Children’s Happiness, an organization offering children an education and a chance for success.

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Your English: Collocations: frank

Tim Bowen offers up an admirably frank discussion in this week’s set of collocations.

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Your English: Idioms: worse

Feeling the worse for wear ? You could do worse than catch up with Tim Bowen’s newest selection of idioms!

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: wipe

Tim Bowen wipes out confusion with his latest article on phrasal verbs.

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Your English: Word grammar: snap

Come on. Snap to it! Read Tim Bowen’s latest musings on word grammar!

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Survival Guide: Surviving the job interview

Here we offer support in preparing for a job interview, including practical advice, questions you wished you’d asked and, importantly, what NOT to say!

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Business Spotlight: Small is now big

This lesson, based on an article from Business Spotlight, is about the trend towards holding bespoke business gatherings at luxury boutique hotels rather than in conventional business hotels. 

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Macmillan Education Innovative Writing Award: Q&A with Teresa Ting

The winner of the 2013 Macmillan Education Innovative Writing Award at the British Council ELTons, Teresa Ting, tells us about her work, her motivations and the importance of winning the award.

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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 9: Grub's up

In their ninth travelogue, our tuk tuk travellers navigate their way through South East Asia and all its culinary delights. In Laos they meet Chanhpheng, a young teacher from Vientiane who founded an education program for disabled women, run by disabled women.

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Your English: Collocations: footing

Are we all on an equal footing when it comes to collocations? Here’s Tim Bowen with his feet firmly on the ground.

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Your English: Idioms: wits

Do idioms frighten you out of your wits ? Tim Bowen’s razor-sharp article is here to save the day.

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Your English: Phrasal verbs: walk

Tim Bowen is not one to walk out when it comes to phrasal verbs. Don’t walk off before you’ve finished reading this article!

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Your English: Word grammar: like

If you’d just, like , give him a chance, Tim Bowen will explain a whole lot of word grammar to the likes of us .

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Your English: Collocations: fog

Have you ever been caught in dense fog ? Tim Bowen gets meteorological.