There is an Indian parable in which a number of blind men set out to discover what an elephant is like. Each feels a different part of the
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Mark Hancock and Annie McDonald are ELT authors, speakers and teachers. On this site, you'll find free classroom materials and downloads on pronunciation, listening skills and other topics, conference reviews, ELT articles and information about our books. Hope you like it!
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On these pages, we share articles we've written, plus conference reviews and other stuff in our blog. You'll find details about talks we've given, including our handouts. We're also making ELT lesson activities in materials and the books section gives info about materials we've published.
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A game to raise awareness of the need to steer a course between conflicting positions in ELT
This is a video showing clips from a presentation I did at Living Learning English in Bristol.
None of us throw our class into a listening unprepared, do we? It would be unfair - after all, in real life, we're normally listening with certain expectations. But often in ELT, our pre-listening activities are limited to a bit of discussion of...
This workshop is part of the IATEFL pronSIG day, session 2.4 (14:05 - 14:50). Rhythm and sentence stress are vital in creating meaning, yet they can be daunting and confusing for both teachers and students.
