I'm a London-based teacher, teacher trainer and coursebook writer. Along with Andrew Walkley, I co-run LEXICAL LAB, an online space for teachers interested in a more lexical approach to teaching. We blog about teaching and provide free materials for learners of English. We also run teacher- and language-development courses in London every summer, as well as bespoke courses overseas. On top of that, we have written two five-level General English courses - OUTCOMES and INNOVATIONS - for National Geographic Learning, the Upper-Intermediate level of the high school series PERSPECTIVES and a methodology book called TEACHING LEXICALLY.
Интересы
In terms of teaching, I'm interested in most aspects of ELT, but particularly material design, everyday classroom practice, teaching spoken language, teaching students to listen better, lexical approaches to language analysis, principled uses of technology and so on. Outside of teaching, I love reading, travelling, playing and listening to music, watching films, cooking, and so on . . . and I follow Arsenal Football Club.
Любимые фильмы
Early Scorcese - Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, etc.
Lots of offbeat cult things like A Clockwork Orange, Harold and Maude, Barbarella, Easy Rider, etc.
Indie films in general, from around the world
Любимая музыка
60s garage and R&B: The Stones, the Kinks, The Yardbirds, Them, The Pretty Things, The Seeds, The 13th Floor Elevators, etc.
Free folk: Tim Buckley, Terry Callier
60s and 70s soul: Detroit soul, southern soul, James Brown, Funkadelic
As well as a lot of early rocksteady and reggae, jazz, punk, blues, R&B and so on.
Любимые телешоу
Mad Men
The Wire
The Sopranos
Любимые книги
A Confederacy of Dunces
On the Road
Любимые цитаты
Be what you is / Not what you ain't / 'Cos if you is what ain't / Then you ain't what you is
Любимые игры
Football.
Chess.
О себе
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Оразование и карьера
Школа
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Работа
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Вуз
Учебное заведениеGoldsmiths, University of London
ФакультетEnglish
Окончание обучения1991 г.
Форма обученияОчное отделение
КвалификацияСтудент (бакалавр)
Учебное заведениеInstitute of Education, University of London