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The final week of Business English month on the Macmillan Dictionary blog starts with a guest post by Pete Sharma aka moi, which starts: I was delighted to be asked to deliver the opening plenary at the BESIG (Business English

I was leafing through my copy of ‘Throw Off Your Clothes And Live’. I buy it for the chess problem … … Sorry, with apologies to Kenneth Horne, I’ll start that blog post again I was leafing through my copy

What a fantastic symposium in Madrid! Huge thanks to our wonderful sponsors (Hitachi and Macmillan Spain) and our hosts. The venue – the 41st floor, British Embassy – was spectacular. Over the next few days, we will post photos of

Every month, the In Company team at Macmillan suggest a e-lesson from the warehouse. The suggested lesson is accompanied by a blog post. Here’s the start of the  latest post from yesterday: In 1992, I went to the Olympics in

Just a quick announcement that we have a new date for the next course for freelance editors and ELT authors keen on ‘future-proofing’ their skills in the digital age Course title: Digital skills for ELT When? 8th – 9th October

We are absolutely delighted that the manuscript of our next ouevre has gone to the lay-out and design people. The book is a team effort consisting of four major strands, A-D.  Barney is responsible for a lot of the ideas

Doesn’t the tech world move swiftly…. At the BESIG PCE, at 17.40 Standard German Time (SGT), I bemoaned the fact that business English teachers cannot get their clammy hands on the exhilarating IWB stuff that general English teachers can… At

Just left another great conference. The Pre-conference event I ran on materials went smoothly – huge thanks to both Macmillan English Campus and English 360 for skillfully handling the hands-on workshop part. I heard Mark Powell was his usual brilliant