Editorial

Major Articles

1. Beyond training: teaching
   A review of the state of UK EFL and out from UK
   Steve Darn, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
2. In their Eyes
   A story-telling article for teachers of young learners
   Primary
   Lucy Crichton, Florianopolis, Brazil
3. On the path from "I can't" to " I can"
   A Mature student comes to grips with French
   David Cranmer, Lisbon, Portugal

Jokes

Two jokes from Brazil and two French-English ones

Short Articles

1. Teacher, you taught me wrong
   John Morgan, Cumbria, UK ( posthumous)
2. How NLP has changed my teaching
   Simon Marshall, Pilgrims UK, interviewed by Judy Baker
3. The Heart of the Matter
   " This is the end of the innocence"
   Coming up against the constraints of the profession on an initial teacher training course
   Lou Spaventa, Sta Barbara, California, USA
4. Surrounded by false friends
   Secondary and adult
   Marian Zamorski, University of Wroclaw, Poland and Pilgrims, Canterbury, UK
5. Explaining grammar with metaphors
   Secondary and adult
   Simon Mumford, UK
6. Humanising the Oral Exam
   Secondary adult
   Paul Bress, Whitstabe, UK
7. Learning English through the cultural interface
   A task-based approach to learning English in UK
   Upper secondary adult
   Roy Boardman, Universita Orientale, Naples, Italy
   St Peter's Language Centre, Naples, Italy
8. Insights into mentoring
   Simon Marshall, Pilgrims. UK

Ideas from the Corpora

Why are phrasal verbs so difficult?
Michael Rundell, Canterbury, UKLesson Outlines

Text Language Transfer
Secondary
Gill Johnson, Hastings, UK

PILGRIMS TEACHER RESOURCE BOOKS Go to HLT Sept 2004 Course Outline More than half a hundred books.

Student Voices

Abbas' story
UK deports Afghani Learner back to terror
Edited by Judy Baker

Publications

Spontaneous Speaking
Drama activities for confidence and fluency
David Heathfield, Exeter University, UK
(author review)

An Old Exercise

Writing "grammar letters" to your students
Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK

Pilgrims Course Outline

The magic of our July-August teacher training courses
Mario Rinvolucri, Pilgrims, UK

Readers Letters

Re-invigorating my teaching
Matt Norbury, UK
Editorial response

Teacher Resource Books Review

Six Creativity Activities
Secondary and adult
Hall Houston, National Dong Hua University
Hualien, Taiwan

Poems

Retirement Blues
(Re-published with thanks from Festschrift for Otfried Boerner, a well-loved trainer in Hamburg, Germany.)

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