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This month sees the launch of Business Advantage, a major new series of Business English course books from Cambridge University Press.
My role was limited but still quite important: I wrote a series of video lessons to accompany the DVDs for the Intermediate and Upper Intermediate levels. But it's still nice to have been part of a big project like this.
For more information, go to the Cambridge catalogue.
My role was limited but still quite important: I wrote a series of video lessons to accompany the DVDs for the Intermediate and Upper Intermediate levels. But it's still nice to have been part of a big project like this.
For more information, go to the Cambridge catalogue.
General EnglishI've always loved grammar, so it was a dream come true to be asked to co-author Active Grammar, a new grammar course for Cambridge, especially as the Series Editor is Penny Ur, one of my ELT heroes.
Also within general English, I've co-authored a course book for Pearson, New Matura Success Upper Intermediate. For more information, click on the General English tab or the Bookshop tab. Business EnglishI see myself first and foremost as a business English teacher. My contribution here has been to write a series of Teacher's Books, available for free to download, for the new Cambridge Business Skills series.
The Student's Books themselves are excellent - written by respected business skills experts Mark Powell and Bob Dignen. As for the Teacher's Books, well, I did my best. For more information, click on the Business English tab or the Bookshop tab. Click to set custom HTML
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Cambridge English for ...As Series Editor of the Cambridge English for ... series, my role is to work closely with the subject specialists who write the books, to plan things like aims, sub-aims, topics and flow - how the units will fit together.
We launched in 2008 with four titles, Engineering, Nursing Intermediate+, Jobhunting and The Media. We added two more in 2010, Marketing and Nursing Pre-intermediate, and another two in 2011, Human Resources and Scientists. For more information, click on the Cambridge English for ... tab or the Bookshop tab. English for Specific PurposesThis was where I started as a writer. My first published book was the Teacher's Book for International Legal English, back in 2006. The new edition, even better than the first, has just come out. I also wrote the Teacher's Book for Introduction to International Legal English.
In addition to these, I've also co-authored the Teacher's Book for Flightpath: English for Pilots and Air Traffic Control Officers. For more information, click on the ESP tab or the Bookshop tab. |