Articles
Read articles written by expert teachers and English language professionals about a wide range of current English language teaching topics and issues. All of our articles feature ideas and suggestions about how you can develop your teaching and bring new ideas into your English language classroom.
Emma
Like Pride and Prejudice, Emma is a novel that cleverly explores human relationships, and the infinitely varied, day-to-day choices in how we interact with each other.
Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s third published novel and many readers and scholars think that it is her highest accomplishment.
Classroom management
In this teaching tip video, David Rixon shares his experience of teaching young learners and offers practical advice on how to apply good classroom management practices.
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Teaching grammar creatively
Grammar teaching doesn’t need to be be boring or 'from the book’. Discover a range of creative activities and techniques for presenting new language structures.
Digital literacies: What are they and why should we care?
In most UK schools, new media literacy skills now supplement the more traditional 3 Rs (reading, writing and 'rithmatic).
Assessment
Our latest tip looks at several of the important issues surrounding testing and assessment. Listen to Clare and Alister discuss their ideas and opinions about how best to assess learners of English. After watching the video, why not give your opinion in the comments below?
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Pride and Prejudice and the art of conversation
When we talk to each other we reveal a great deal about how we think and how we feel about the subject at hand and the world around us.
Pride and Prejudice and the idea of love
Pride and Prejudice is now one of the most well-known literary love stories, with people encountering it either as a novel or a tv series or a film.
Pride and Prejudice and the regency world
Like many novelists, part of what they write about relates to the wider world they see around them.
The heroes and villains of Pride and Prejudice
Like all characters in fiction, there are those we can think of as heroes and those we can think of as villains.