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Your time is precious so onestopenglish is packed with resources to make life easier. All materials are written and edited by our expert team of teachers and authors and are organized into core subject areas such as Skills, Grammar and Vocabulary, Business, Exams and Young Learners, so you’ll always find what you’re looking for.

Letter from the editors

With our heads still buzzing from the launch of The Road Less Travelled, Lesley Duffin, from Solihull College’s ESOL School, tells us how the onestopenglish podcasts have played a key part in developing her students' listening skills.

We get lots of requests for new ESP materials and it’s always interesting to find out the exceptional and specialized circumstances that many of you are teaching in. We’ll be expanding our ESP bank over the coming months, beginning with a new series of practical worksheets for nurses learning English.

And our new Author of the month is long-standing onestopenglish author Adrian Tennant, who is back with more of his fantastic pronunciation activities for November.

New for November 2008

Lesley Duffin and her students from Solihull College ESOL School

New this month: Au revoir to long lunch as French tighten belts

3,000 French restaurants and bars go bust in three months as people cut down on their spending. How many ways of saving money in difficult economic times can you think of?

Featured school: Solihull College ESOL School

Lesley Duffin, from Solihull College's ESOL School, tells us how the materials in the Audio and Podcasts section of onestopenglish have played a key part in developing her students' listening skills, and explains that it's easy to integrate onestopenglish resources into an ESOL curriculum.

Spot on news lessons for teens: Fair for all

This news lesson is about the benefits of the Fairtrade system, which helps farmers and artisans to get paid fairly.

Onestop Phonics: The Letter Ww

This comprehensive lesson contains a flashcard for Walter Watermelon, a downloadable podcast, PDF worksheets and teaching notes by Rachel Finnie.

New this week: Weekly news lesson 113: 13th November 2008: El maestro Maradona: football legend to be Argentina manager

Diego Maradona, the controversial football legend, lost control through drink and drugs during the course of his career. Now he is the manager of Argentina's national team. Do you think he will make a good manager, considering his history?

New this week: Weekly news lesson 114: 20th November 2008: 500 places to see before they die

Frommer’s 500 Places To See Before They Disappear provides a list of places where it is still possible to see rare and endangered animals, distinct landscapes and unique cultural sights. Do you agree that the planet is poorer every time we allow something beautiful to die?

A week in Punakha

In part two of her monthly diary, Shiriin Barakzai describes the significant challenges she faces in teaching English to her classes of Bhuddist monks, starting with how to move on from rhythmic chanting...

The Road Less Travelled Season Two: Episode 3: The wedding dress: Audio and activities

Katie goes wedding dress shopping with Sal. Sal is in the changing room when Katie receives an unwelcome phone call from Rich.

Onestopenglish Video Dictionary Competition

Bring words and phrases alive by making videos of them in class! Enter the Onestopenglish Video Dictionary Competition for the chance to win a Flip Video Camcorder.

Video projects: Painting the school green

In this instalment of the integrated skills series by Jackie McAvoy, students produce a short video or audio recording of an eco-project for their language school.

ESP bank: Nursing

Ros Wright and Marie McCullagh present a series of practical worksheets for trainee or in-work nurses who wish to improve their English. Part 1, Pain assessment, is free for all users.

Teen talk: Boldly go...

In the year of NASA's fiftieth birthday, Lindsay Clandfield explores the outer reaches of the universe.

Managing children positively

Carol Read offers some key pointers for teaching young learners.

New: Incredible places

A song and interactive games on the topic of incredible places.

Games and activities: New this month

Check out the new interactive games and activities added this month for Staff Room users.

Onestop Phonics: The Letter Vv

This comprehensive lesson contains a flashcard for Victor Vegetables, a downloadable podcast, PDF worksheets and teaching notes by Rachel Finnie.

Pronunciation activities: Part 10

Adrian Tennant offers a variety of activities designed to help students practise word stress.

Business tasks: Probability

A lesson by Adrian Doff for students to practise talking about probability: to talk about things you expect or don’t expect to happen, and to say whether things are likely or unlikely.

Onestop Phonics: The Letter Xx

This comprehensive lesson contains a flashcard for Roxy Lunchbox, a downloadable podcast, PDF worksheets and teaching notes by Rachel Finnie.

Teen talk: What's happening on November 4th?

Is the language classroom a place for politics? Many would argue that it isn’t, especially with teens and younger learners. Talking politics isn’t always easy in your own language, let alone a foreign one. Others warn that teens are not interested in politics. They don’t have a vote, so why should they care?