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Editorial
This is a particularly practical issue of ETp, with lots of activities for you to try. It is also very colourful. This is partly thanks to Kendall Peet, who has devised a simple yet efficient colour coding scheme for training his students to write essays which are well structured and contain all the features that readers expect to find. Thanks, also, to Peter Viney, who considers the names of the colours that we teach our learners and wonders whether these actually reflect those most commonly used in everyday life.
He has trawled through paint and clothing catalogues to find out whether taupe is the new black.
Even though it is January – here in the UK, rather a dismal and colourless month – there is plenty in this issue to help you add a little colour to your teaching. Michael Friel’s soggy tissue tossing game and Kent Hill’s two conversation activities should keep your students on their toes and provide some fun in the classroom – as will Russell Stannard’s use of old UK government information videos, available freely on the internet, to make listening comprehension and vocabulary learning amusing and engaging for students. Russell delves into the past for these activities, while Jeff Stanford introduces us to Moodle, a comprehensive e-learning tool, which is very much something of the present and the future.
Helena Gomm
Editor

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Contents
MAIN FEATURE
DEVELOPING RAPPORT
Rose Senior sees rapport as a fundamental factor in successful classroom teaching
FEATURES
FROM THEME TO THESIS ... AND BEYOND
Charles Jannuzi makes essay writing easier with collaborative mapping of ideas and vocabulary
PERFECT MATCH
Kent Hill offers two conversation activities to get students talking
PAINTING THE CLASSROOM PINK 17 (OR SALMON)
Peter Viney considers colour
GETTING TO GRIPS WITH GENRE 2
Siân Morgan looks at genre awareness in the context of business
THE LAZY MOUTH TRICK
Yen-Ling Teresa Ting suggests a strategy for helping students with the pronunciation of suffixes
NAVIGATING THROUGH ACADEMIC WATERS
Kendall Peet helps his students by colour coding their Essays
IMAGES 6
Jamie Keddie finds advertising a rich resource for creative writing
FUN WITH LONG SENTENCES
Mike Friel outlines some games to help students cope with complexity
MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL
Marc Helgesen harnesses the senses to match teaching to learning preferences
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Adam Brown offers activities to increase awareness of how we speak without words
TEACHING YOUNG LEARNERS CLIL, OF COURSE!
Bruce Milne recommends integrating teaching topics and activities on holiday courses
BUSINESS ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL
THE ‘TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF’ TOOLKIT
Vanessa Street develops a device to make first lessons productive


TEACHER DEVELOPMENT
FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED
Neil Roberts thinks specific language awareness training for teachers would pay dividends
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR CLASS
Paul Bress suggests you prepare your mind as well as your materials

TECHNOLOGY
IN THE MOOD FOR MOODLE
Jeff Stanford explains what Moodle is and what it can do for you
WEBWATCHER
Russell Stannard finds a wealth of entertaining material in old government information films

REGULAR FEATURES
PREPARING TO TEACH ... Present perfect and for/since
John Potts
ACTIVITY CORNER: TWO ACTIVITIES FOR PRACTISING THE PRESENT PERFECT
Jon Marks
UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT
Rose Senior
IT WORKS IN PRACTICE
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