All Professional Development articles – Page 10
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Your English: Word grammar: gut
We’ve got a gut feeling you’ll want to take a look at this week’s Your English.
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Your English: Collocations: implement (verb)
Time to implement new policies? Let Tim Bowen show you how it’s done.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: cut (2)
Can we just cut in? Tim Bowen’s back with another look at these phrasal verbs.
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Pronunciation skills: Loosening the ‘grip’ of L1 pronunciation
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill looks at the emergence of the ‘L1 grip’ and how best to tackle it.
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ArticleAssessment matters: Designing your own tests
Adrian Tennant explores some of the issues behind designing your own tests and gives some practical examples of how to go about it.
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Reading matters: Decoding texts
Adrian Tennant delves into the detail of how texts are put together and how you can infer meaning. He also covers the presumptions we make when reading texts and how to deal with issues such as vocabulary within a text as well as issues connected to punctuation.
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Theme-based expressions: UK Election special
Will Tim Bowen win votes for his election-themed Your English? Get to the polling station!
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Your English: Idioms: game
Tim Bowen gets ahead of the game as he rounds up these game-related idioms. It’s all part of the game!
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Your English: Collocations: illusion
Don’t labour under false illusions – let Tim Bowen set you straight.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: cut (1)
Should we cut down or cut back? Tim Bowen helps us cut out confusion.
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Tech Tasks: Collaborative presentations
Tom Walton shares his lesson where students collaborate and present in front of the class using Google Drive.
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Pronunciation skills: The chart
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill introduces us to the phonemic chart and why it’s important to familiarize ourselves with sounds when teaching or learning a language.
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Pronunciation skills: The muscle buttons and vowels /iː/ or /uː/
In these two videos, Adrian Underhill explains the physicality of pronunciation and the use of ‘muscle buttons’ to help us vocalize sounds such as vowels /i:/ and /u:/.
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Pronunciation skills: What accent should I teach?
ELT Pronunciation expert Adrian Underhill addresses your practical concerns on accents, RP and student identity.
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Pronunciation skills: Accents and the L1 grip
Which accent should I teach with? This is a common question that Adrian Underhill answers in the video below as well as tackling the subject of the L1 grip and how to escape it!
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Your English: Word grammar: forward
If word grammar is troubling you, try a little forward planning with this helpful article from Tim Bowen.
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Your English: Idioms: devil
Go on, be a devil and take a look at Tim Bowen’s devilish article on idioms.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: crack
If phrasal verbs are making you crack up, never fear. Tim Bowen is cracking down on these pesky little words.