Larissa Pahomov is a part of Science Leadership Academy, and the book she wrote offers not only her insight on creating an authentic learning environment, but also bears the mark of a true practitioner and some of the answers are the ones that make this book more than a guide for other SLA teachers.

I was looking for a nice book focused not only on culture itself, but using cultural topics as an element of a proper, language-oriented lesson. I used to prepare such classes by myself (with a little help of the Internet), but when at IATEFL conference I saw a book, titled Let's Visit England by Polonsky, I knew I had to buy it.

New year, new me, and being always ready for some technology I've decided to go vintage with the old-fashioned dictionaries. How often do you use ordinary dictionaries in your classroom? Maybe, like yours truly, you are so much into technology you happen to ignore those old-fashioned tomes? Or maybe the memories of "building up your vocabulary" for Use of English exam during uni times are so traumatic you don't even want to introduce this torture to your students?