Preparing to teach...was my regular article in each issue of English Teaching professional. The first appeared in issue 13 in October 1999 and the series ran until issue 73 in March 2011.
In issue 75 (July 2011) I started a new series called Language Log that looks at aspects of language from a teacher’s perspective. The series ended in March 2014 with issue 91.
Here is a complete listing of all my articles that appeared in ETp:
issue 91 March 2014 - Language Log: ergative verbs issue 90 January 2014 - Language Log: homophones, eggcorns and mondegreens issue 89 November 2013 - Language Log: all you need is get issue 88 September 2013 - Language Log: think different issue 87 July 2013 - Language Log: words ending in -ing issue 86 May 2013 - Language Log: countable uncountables issue 85 March 2013 - Language Log: always doing issue 84 January 2013 - Language Log: stranded prepositions issue 83 November 2012 - Language Log: idiolect issue 82 September 2012 - Language Log: indirectness issue 81 July 2012 - Language Log: singulars and plurals issue 80 May 2012 - Language Log: the new present perfect issue 79 March 2012 - Language Log: mixed & mixed-up conditionals issue 78 January 2012 - Language Log: I haven’t a clue issue 77 November 2011 - Language Log: want issue 76 September 2011 - Language Log: If i would issue 75 July 2011 - Language Log: the spreading present continuous
issue 74 May 2011 - no article
issue 73 March 2011 - vocabulary 2 (end of Preparing to teach series) issue 72 January 2011 - vocabulary 1 issue 71 November 2010 - may and might issue 70 September 2010 - teaching grammar issue 69 July 2010 - wh-word compounds issue 68 May 2010 - get issue 67 March 2010 - should issue 66 January 2010 - non-finite constructions issue 65 November 2009 - colour idioms & collocations 2 issue 64 September 2009 - time clauses issue 63 July 2009 - binomials issue 62 May 2009 - colour idioms & collocations issue 61 March 2009 - collocating with prepositions issue 60 January 2009 - permission, warnings, obligations issue 59 November 2008 - could issue 58 September 2008 - can issue 57 July 2008 - confusable pairs issue 56 May 2008 - less, least, fewer, fewest issue 55 March 2008 - expressing purpose issue 54 January 2008 - present perfect & for/since issue 53 November 2007 - expressing results issue 52 September 2007 - more ways of emphasising issue 51 July 2007 - comparative & superlative issue 50 May 2007 - question tags issue 49 March 2007 - countability issue 48 January 2007 - passives issue 47 November 2006 - multi-word verbs issue 46 September 2006 - perfect aspect issue 45 July 2006 - expressing preferences issue 44 May 2006 - past perfect issue 43 March 2006 - present perfect or past simple? issue 42 January 2006 - present perfect with just, already & yet issue 41 November 2005 - present perfect with ever & never issue 40 September 2005 - need & necessity issue 39 July 2005 - participle adjectives issue 38 May 2005- everything/something/anything/nothing issue 37 March 2005 - emphasis issue 36 January 2005 - concession issue 35 November 2004 - the future issue 34 September 2004 - likelihood and assumptions issue 33 July 2004 - the future in the past issue 32 May 2004 - linking verbs issue 31 March 2004 - see someone do/doing issue 30 January 2004 - have/get something done issue 29 October 2003 - should, ought to, and had better issue 28 July 2003 - indirect speech issue 27 April 2003 - infinitive or gerund? issue 26 January 2003 - relative clauses part 2 issue 25 October 2002 - relative clauses part 1 issue 24 July 2002 - conditional variations issue 23 April 2002 - unreal conditionals issue 22 January 2002 - would issue 21 October 2001 - present perfect continuous issue 20 July 2001 - continuous aspect issue 19 April 2001 - dynamic & stative verbs issue 18 January 2001 - gerunds issue 17 October 2000 - will issue 16 July 2000 - type 1 conditionals issue 15 April 2000 - future continuous issue 14 January 2000 - used to issue 13 October 1999 - wish constructions
