Teach Out There

Teachers and language teaching organisations can now buy detailed English Out There lesson plans (six levels from beginner to advanced) – all carefully planned to inspire your students and build their confidence.

The plans require no lesson planning and each lasts for a full three hours. They have all been taught hundreds of times with real students, edited by the teachers that taught them and then by experienced authors. They took seven years to develop. Use them as a stand-alone short program, integrate them with your existing programs, or just use them as active and effective one-off lessons to put theory into practice.

When your students learn English in real-life settings or speak to native or fluent English speakers online immediately after they have studied some language, you are providing powerful learning.

The first unique lesson packs will soon be available on this site. More materials will be added on a monthly basis soon and they too will include recent and interesting content on challenging subjects.

Message from the editor, Tim Bowen.

LOT interested me from the start because of the opportunities it gives the learner to start using language almost immediately but at their own pace and under their own terms. The focus on communication with English speakers in the form of question and answer and then reporting back and/or evaluating responses gives each 'lesson' a clear outcome and, hopefully, will also give learners a sense of achievement as they complete the tasks.

Biopic: Tim Bowen has taught English and trained teachers in more than 30 countries, including Russia, China, Brazil, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Argentina. He graduated in Slavonic languages at the University of Leeds, did a postgraduate Certificate in Education (TESL) at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and has an MPhil in the field of TEFL from the University of Southampton. He is co-author of The Pronunciation Book (Longman), Inside Teaching (Macmillan), the student portfolios for the Straightforward series (Macmillan), author of Build Your Business Grammar (Thomson ELT) and author of the teacher’s books for the Attitude and Expressions series of coursebooks (Macmillan). For the past 6 years Tim has written the Guardian Weekly news lessons for the Macmillan Onestopenglish website. He is also one of the team of free-lance teacher trainers at Pilgrims, Canterbury, UK. His current interests include contrastive linguistics, etymology and pronunciation. Outside the classroom his interests include studying foreign languages, European history, travel, cross-country running and (tragically) following the misfortunes of Shrewsbury Town football club.

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