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ETp: English Teaching professional

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