All Professional Development articles – Page 18
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Your English: Idioms: trick
Tim Bowen never misses a trick when it comes to explaining idioms.
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 4: Rwanda
In their fourth travelogue, Rich and Nick speak to two young genocide survivors who founded Healing through Arts and Drama, a project set up to help educate people about the importance of reconciliation and unity.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: stop
Tim Bowen will stop at nothing to ensure that you and your students have a firm grasp of phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Word grammar: upset
Have you ever upset the applecart? Tim Bowen touches on a touchy piece of word grammar.
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Your English: Collocations: fighting
Sadly, there always seems to be an area of the world engaged in fierce fighting. Tim Bowen provides some topical collocations.
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ArticleSo you want to be a teacher?
So you want to be an English language teacher? Here’s an infographic prepared by onestopenglish to tell you all you need to know about choosing this career!
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Your English: Idioms: throw
Confused by idioms? Don’t throw in the towel. Tim Bowen’s here to help.
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 3: Highland, highland highland!
In their third travelogue, Rich and Nick depart the barren, dusty tracks of Sudan for the lush landscape of Kenya – and make some friends along the way.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: settle
Settle down and enjoy another of Tim Bowen’s useful articles on phrasal verbs.
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Your English: Word grammar: tough
Not for the first time, Tim Bowen gets tough on word grammar.
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Your English: Collocations: favour
Do you need a favour? Tim Bowen does us a special favour in explaining some collocations.
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Your English: Idioms: thing
Have you got a thing about idioms? That could mean more than one thing, explains Tim Bowen …
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How to write reading and listening activities
In an extract from ELT Teacher2Writer’s training module, Caroline Krantz gives some useful tips for writing comprehension exercises, followed by a comprehension task of your own to test your knowledge.
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Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney
Co-authors of our Mobile English series, Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney reveal all about their careers in English language teaching and writing. One of them has dabbled with stand-up comedy and the other used to be a technophobe – can you guess which?
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 2: Streetwise in Sudan
In their second travelogue, our tuk tuk boys cross the border into Sudan, experience some first-class hospitality and visit a worthy project.
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: set (3)
Tim Bowen sets out as he means to carry on in this article.
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Your English: Collocations: factor
Tim Bowen identifies some important factors in this collection of collocations.
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Tuk Tuk Travels: Entry 1: An introduction
In their first travelogue, our tuk tuk travellers explain their mission and visit a worthy project on the outskirts of Cairo.
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Your English: Idioms: sweep
Don’t sweep your issues with idioms under the carpet! Tim Bowen is here to make sense of them.