All Professional Development articles – Page 30
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: self-defence
Tim Bowen might have to fend off hordes of fans after brilliantly explaining the use of three phrasal verbs to do with self-defence.
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Your English: Word grammar: otherwise
Read Tim Bowen's latest article on word grammar, otherwiseyou'll miss valuable guidance on how to use this popular adverb!
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ArticleYour English: Collocations: cast
Tim Bowen casts new light on the verb to cast and its collocates.
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Your English: Idioms: blood
Proving that idioms are in his blood, here is Tim Bowen's next installment of blood-related collocates.
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ArticleAssessment matters: Preparing students for tests and exams
Adrian Tennant looks at how most exams test a student’s ability to do tests and gives some practical tips aimed at helping you prepare your students.
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Your English: Phrasal Verbs: animals
Industrious as ever, Tim Bowen has ferreted out another batch of phrasal verbs, this time related to animals.
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Your English: Collocations: win/earn/gain
Always winning a lot of support for his weekly articles, Tim Bowen returns to lead us through collocates of the connected verbs win, earn and gain.
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ArticleHospitality and Tourism
In this introduction to his series of resources, Keith Harding provides some tips for using these materials.
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ArticleAssessment matters: Assessing skills
Adrian Tennant looks at how teachers test the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking and the fairness of assessment techniques.
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Your English: Phrasal Verbs: some lonely phrasal verbs 3
Tim Bowen wouldn't dream of fobbing you off with this week's collection of odd phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Word grammar: above
Tim Bowen wasn't above explaining the use of the above word.
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Your English: Collocations: lose
Tim Bowen urges you not to lose sleep over the collocates of the verb to lose.
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ArticleAssessment matters: Diagnostic tests
Adrian Tennant considers 'diagnostic tests', comparing them to other forms of assessment as well as giving some practical suggestions.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: some lonely phrasal verbs 2
Tim Bowen chaulks up another great article on phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Word grammar: past
If your students are past caring about learning grammar, why not introduce one of Tim Bowen's word grammar articles to spice up a lesson?
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Your English: Collocations: return
Here, Tim Bowen returns with some key information on the collocates of the word return.
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Your English: Idioms: foot
Put your feet up, relax and let Tim Bowen entertain you with this lively discussion on idioms involving feet.
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Teaching Proficiency students
Lindsay Clandfield offers some advice to a teacher in Poland whose Proficiency-level students are no longer challenged by their coursebook.