Last update before a nice break, woohoo! New releases Another one for Paul Ashe (with Jeremy Bowell) – Prospects. I’ve seen Paul’s name around a bit recently. IH are running a course in online tutoring, he’s listed as a tutor… Read More ›
news and views
Materials writing news and views, June 2020
Rushed off my feet. No time to put any news and views together in recent months. This one will be more views than news, and a bit loose. So, what’s going on? Work I expected loads more cancelled projects due… Read More ›
Materials writing news and views, March 2020
One-year anniversary of these posts. Cool! New releases Congrats to Billie Jago, who has authored these practice tests for Cambridge C1 Advanced: This is the first time I’ve come across the publisher Prosperity Education. Looks like they are mainly exam-focused,… Read More ›
Materials writing news and views, February 2020
I’ll hopefully keep this update going this year. Bit busy at the moment so here are a few very quick updates and some useful links. New releases Express Publishing are promoting a new book English for 21st Century Skills (Mavridi… Read More ›
Materials writing news and views, September 2019
September already? It’ll soon be Xmas… New releases Deborah Hobbs (author) mentioned the release of ‘Open World’ (CUP). This is from the Cambridge English website: Open World is an exciting new course from Cambridge which takes you further. Embark on… Read More ›
Materials writing news and views, August 2019
It’s been a whole month since I’ve punned in a published resource! Crazy. New releases Tyson Seburn has a put together a sample unit of an ELT LGBTQIA2 inclusive coursebook unit, based on a normalisation approach. He’s done a great… Read More ›
Materials writing news and views, July 2019
Sorry, been busy! Here’s some latest news with a Pearson-heavy start! Pearson to phase out print textbooks The big news announced yesterday (BBC article here). In the pipeline… Pearson are working on the higher levels (Int+) of Startup. Promo… Read More ›
Materials writing news and views, May 2019
Some news from this month… New materials Nice post on LinkedIn the other day from Kate Foufouti. A new resource from Macmillan. Macmillan have also been promoting a new Pre-primary series called Mimi’s Wheel – series editor is Carol Read… Read More ›
Materials writing news and views, April 2019
April update has got a bit long, sorry. It’s mainly because of IATEFL and ELTONS. IATEFL talks There were some interesting talks related to materials writing. Equality, diversity and inclusion was certainly a theme. Two interesting points from John Gray’s… Read More ›
Materials writing news and views, March 2019
A longer post this month – some overspill from the last post and then happenings over the last few weeks… What’s new out recently? Here are some recent coursebooks from publishers that I’ve clocked mainly on LinkedIn… Oxford Uni Press… Read More ›
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