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Neil Harris

Dealing with the advantages of generative AI, the author offers clear advice on how teaching and learning can both benefit.

David Matthews

The article offers a range of tips for using ChatGPT for lesson planning, vocabulary recycling and text rewriting.

Kat Robb

Kat Robb argues that the sharing of skills and knowledge is best done by a teacher rather than one relying on artificial intelligence.

Daniel Costa

Daniel Costa advocates and describes using various tools to create bespoke images but warns of some of the inherent drawbacks.

Pilar Capaul

The article offers clear steps to take as you start to use AI to create materials, provide texts, recycle vocabulary and other activities.

Alexander Popov

The author argues that we need to be careful not to encourage our learners to allow AI to take over creativity despite its efficiency. AI should be used in tandem with and not instead of human intelligence.

Elzbieta Grabska-Moyle

The author reflects on the benefits and pitfalls of using AI not only for the teacher but equally for their learners who can use the tools for extra practice and guidance.

Anna Young

The author reiterates the key learnings from the course, the importance of clarity, of keeping activities relevant to the context and the need to be detailed in the explanation and illustration of activities and tasks.

Iuliia Irgiztseva

As a way of reducing printing and photocopying costs, the author offers alternative ways of doing some common practice activities.

Johanna Stirling

The author offers advice on how to teach English and raise awareness of climate issues.

Andrew Boon, Teruyo Nakao

The article covers a wide range of techniques for handling large groups whilst giving them attention, interest, practice and assessment opportunities.

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These activities can be adapted for any level.

Rachel Tsateri

The lesson is aimed at improving communication by offering students the chance to analyse, present and interact, three key stages of communication.

Mark Johnson

The article offers a range of activities for raising learners awareness of the schwa sound most common in connected speech.

Thomas Entwistle

The article is based on research into learners’ abilities to write about a topic with or without background knowledge and concludes that written fluency practice improves overall performance.

Gary Robert

Common reasons for learners struggling with listening is their lack of awareness of listening strategies, the length of the texts used and the lack of interest in the topics. Solutions are offered in this article.

Jessica Mackay

This article provides a walk-through on how to set up a group to maximise participation and explains what type of activities generate most interaction.

Adrian Tennant

The author argues that certain words are vital in certain cultures irrespective of whether they are included in the word lists produced by Western publishers and universities.

Roy Edwards

Roy Edwards offers advice to teachers and learners as to how they should best prepare themselves for the revision stage of the course.

Daniel Xerri

The article argues that managers need to be equipped to see the big picture, understand fully their staff and their potential and also be aware of their own traits.

Huma Riaz

The article describes the new world we are teaching in with AI and technology everywhere. We are teaching face-to-face and online and teaching soft skills as well as language.

James Heal

The article describes ways of taking advantage of a new class or activity to develop as a teacher and to improve the quality of the instruction.

Stephen Tarbuck

The article describes the importance of getting ready for a summer programme and of being ready to cope with the unexpected..