Online courses for teachers updated for 2023
25 March 2023
Teaching spoken and business grammar
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A short article in this month’s edition of Humanising Language Teaching
5 October 2022
On the interplay between ELT and fiction ...
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Chinese edition of Oxford Practice Grammar Basic!
29 August 2022
A Chinese version of Oxford Practice Grammar Basic was published this month.
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Review in Modern English Teacher
5 July 2022
New review of 'Spoken Grammar: a Guide for English Language Teachers'.
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3rd edition of 'Improve Your Grammar' published today by Bloomsbury Publishing!
7 April 2022
New edition of the grammar practice book for university students.
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Article in ELT News magazine (including an A-Z of spoken grammar)
28 March 2022
Article on spoken grammar in the March 2022 edition of ELT News
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An A to Z of spoken grammar
3 November 2021
Index to all the entries!
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6 free lesson plans
21 October 2021
Step-by-step lesson plans for English language teachers.
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Spoken grammar: discourse markers
19 October 2021
A free lesson plan.
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New edition of A Handbook of Spoken Grammar
23 March 2021
10th anniversary
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Spoken grammar: heads and tails
22 March 2021
A lesson plan
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Epilepsy and (in my case) fiction
17 March 2021
Are there key moments that can unlock the lifelong impact of epilepsy?
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Teaching impersonal subjects
16 December 2020
A lesson plan for academic writing
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Macmillan International Higher Education blog
3 November 2020
New blog (for Macmillan) on accuracy and range in university students’ grammar.
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Vague category language
3 June 2020
A free lesson plan
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Compound adjectives and prepositional phrases in essays and formal business writing
28 April 2020
A lesson plan ...
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Online course for English language teachers
14 April 2020
'Spoken Grammar: a Guide for English Language Teachers'
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What is 'academic grammar'?
3 March 2020
New blog post
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Cautious or 'hedging' language in essays and formal business writing
30 January 2020
A lesson plan ...
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'Y' as a suffix
21 January 2020
'Y' as a suffix
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Vague categories
14 January 2020
Vague categories
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Tails
7 January 2020
Tails
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Synonymous responses
17 December 2019
Synonymous responses
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Teaching Grammar for Business Essays
12 December 2019
Christmas offer!
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Reporting speech
10 December 2019
Reporting speech
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Workshop at IATEFL 2020
5 December 2019
Just to say I'll be holding a workshop at the IATEFL conference (Manchester, 2020)
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Quantities, vague
3 December 2019
Quantities, vague
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Placeholders
26 November 2019
Placeholders
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Oh
19 November 2019
Oh
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Noun phrase prefaces
15 November 2019
Noun phrase prefaces
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Marking spoken discourse
12 November 2019
Marking spoken discourse
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Lexical bundles
8 November 2019
Lexical bundles
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New online course, 'Teaching Grammar for Business Essays'!
7 November 2019
New course for English language teachers.
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Inserts
5 November 2019
Inserts
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Heads
25 October 2019
Heads
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Grammar rules
22 October 2019
Grammar rules
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Frontal ellipsis
18 October 2019
Frontal ellipsis
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Exaggeration
15 October 2019
Exaggeration
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Declarative questions
11 October 2019
Declarative questions
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Cleft structures
8 October 2019
Cleft structures
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Critic's Report on the Story of the Cloth
4 October 2019
Booklife Prize 2019
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Binomial phrases
4 October 2019
Binomial phrases
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Adjectives as response tokens
1 October 2019
Adjectives as response tokens
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Let us teach (some) spoken grammar!
11 September 2019
In-depth article on teaching spoken grammar in the September 2019 edition of The Teacher.
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Grammar as a Foreign Language
28 August 2019
What do you do as a lecturer at a UK university when British students hand in essays which, though they may be competently managed in most other respects, are still riddled with the kind of errors that grammar checking programs won’t pick up?
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In-depth review of spoken grammar course on ELT PLanning blog
26 July 2019
New review on this leading website!
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Article on spoken grammar in Teacher Trainer journal
11 July 2019
Short piece on my Udemy course in the latest edition of The Teacher Trainer.
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Review of spoken grammar course in IATEFL Voices
1 July 2019
Short review in issue 269 (July/August 2019)
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Launch of new Oxford Practice Grammar Basic
5 June 2019
Updated version just published.
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Review in EL Gazette
4 March 2019
Review of online spoken grammar course.
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5 Star Review of The Story of the Cloth on Readers' Favorite
30 January 2019
New editorial review of The Story of the Cloth.
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Article in EFL Magazine
15 January 2019
Article on spoken grammar published in January edition of EFL Magazine.com
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Udemy course 'Spoken Grammar: a guide for English language teachers' launched!
22 November 2018
The online course 'Spoken Grammar: a guide for English language teachers' is now available on the Udemy website.
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Paperback 'Story of the Cloth' launched on Amazon
12 October 2018
Paperback 'Story of the Cloth' now on Amazon.
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Digital Self-Publishing: the Support Network
3 May 2018
Article on Linkedin.
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EdYOUfest
5 April 2018
Ken Paterson will be giving a plenary talk at EdYOUfest (19-23 August, 2018).
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2018 IATEFL
27 March 2018
Ken Paterson will be giving a talk at the forthcoming IATEFL conference in Brighton.
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