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The latest Business English e-lesson from Macmillan is now available from: {{link http://www.businessenglishonline.net/e-lessons/index.htm Business English Online}} The title: Happiness Happy weekend! For more details on this lesson, click on “Link” (below).

I should like here to explore one of the current buzz terms in ELT, “blended learning”, offering some practical teaching ideas based around the concept. ….”Blended learning” has become a much-discussed paradigm. But what exactly is it? For the rest

Visit the Humanising language teaching web-site for an excellent new article: eChatBoX- dynamically creating a resource for real-time emoderator by Valentina Dodge (Italy) and Sheila Vine (Germany) Click here to access the article: {{link http://www.hltmag.co.uk/may06/mart01.htm EBox article}}

Just a note for those keen on reading about technology. ELT Journal has just published two book reviews: Language Learning Online: Towards Best Practice Using the Web to Support Language Learning U Felix (ed.) Swets and Zeitlinger B.V.2003, 214 pp.,

Sophie Ioannou-Georgiou is creating a useful place on the web to check up on any presentations and talks you may have missed at the recent Learning Technologies conference. Just visit {{link http://www.iateflcompsig.org.uk/cyprusreport2006.htm Cyprus Conference}} Happy reading Pete

Macmillan have just brought out the fifth Business English Update For the guide, just click on:{{link http://www.businessenglishonline.net/InCompany/BEU/june-guide.htm Ten Point Guide to Business English}} Hope it proves useful!

The July EL Gazette contains a review of the new coursebook “Move” (Intermediate) from Macmillan. Extract: The book is […] is supported by a CD-ROM. The look of this disc is the same as that on the Macmillan English Campus,

Just in case you missed your paper copy of the Guardian Weekly last weekend, here’s a link to Pete’s article {{link http://education.guardian.co.uk/tefl/story/0,,1783719,00.html Mapping out our technological future}}

Many thanks to Sophie and to everyone who organised the conference last weekend – and the night in the Taverna! Also thanks to everyone who came along to the session on the Macmillan English Campus. For more on MEC and

Harrogate, the North Yorkshire spa town, is famous for its Turkish baths…. and the International Convention Centre. The centre proved a fitting venue for the 2006 IATEFL conference, which every year draws hundreds of teachers from all around the world.