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		<title>February&#8217;s Delta Download</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February's Delta Download is now available! Visit the Downloads area for Part 4 in of our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri from Delta Publishing's Professional Perspectives series.]]></description>
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		<title>Humanising Your Coursebook &#8211; Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download Part 4 in our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri here for FREE. Humanising Your Coursebook, part of the Professional Perspectives series, provides a wide range of original, imaginative, humanistic activities and techniques which will give new life to any coursebook. Designed to appeal to teachers wishing to diversify or experiment, and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words that replace speech marks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Paterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I noticed that one of the students in my class would often add little remarks that her friends or family had made into her conversation. She would never turn them into indirect speech by making grammatical changes, but would instead prefix the quotations with the word ‘look’. In other words, she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exaggerated language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Paterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the research for ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details) involved going through pages of the language that we had reformulated for our students on speakings skills courses, highlighting recurring features. One thing that would come up now and again were examples [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two new titles in stock</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Handbook of Spoken Grammar and Delta Academic Objectives: Writing Skills are now in stock. Click here for links to find out more about these new titles. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Handbook of Spoken Grammar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Caroline Caygill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delta Natural English]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Language Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Sewell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spoken English is now recognized as having its own “grammar” which is not covered in traditional language practice material. Using recent corpus research into spoken English the Handbook of Spoken Grammar teaches learners to speak more naturally, using the patterns that native speakers use when speaking English.]]></description>
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		<title>January&#8217;s Delta Download</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[January's Delta Download is now available! Visit the Downloads area for Part 3 in of our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri from Delta Publishing's Professional Perspectives series.]]></description>
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		<title>Humanising Your Coursebook &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Download Part 3 in our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri here for FREE. Humanising Your Coursebook, part of the Professional Perspectives series, provides a wide range of original, imaginative, humanistic activities and techniques which will give new life to any coursebook. Designed to appeal to teachers wishing to diversify or experiment, and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The vague use of &#8216;thing&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Paterson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In writing ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details), we wanted to include some key aspects of ‘vague language’ (e.g. ‘sort of’, ‘a couple of’, ‘a bit of’ etc.). The word ‘thing’ (and ‘thingy’, ‘thingamajig’, and ‘thingummy’) has a number of uses: - There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lexical bundles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Paterson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were deciding on the contents for ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details) we were fairly sure we wanted to include some spoken English ‘lexical bundles’. These are strings of words that corpus research has shown are particularly frequent in conversation. See the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW Delta Extension Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Front Page News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce the launch of a new area of the website Delta Extension Resources where we are offering downloadable extension resources to support selected Delta Publishing titles, click here to take a look at the first resources on offer.]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching spoken grammar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Paterson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Ken Paterson and I’m a co-author (with Caroline Caygill and Rebecca Sewell) on Delta’s forthcoming title ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details). In the book we take 20 items of non-traditional grammar, explain how they work, and offer practice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December&#8217;s Delta Download</title>
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		<comments>http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/news/decembers-delta-download-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Front Page News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[December's Delta Download is now available! Visit the Downloads area for Part 2 in of our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri from Delta Publishing's Professional Perspectives series.]]></description>
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		<title>Humanising Your Coursebook &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<comments>http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/downloads/humanising-your-coursebook-part-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Download Part 2 in our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri here for FREE. Humanising Your Coursebook, part of the Professional Perspectives series, provides a wide range of original, imaginative, humanistic activities and techniques which will give new life to any coursebook. Designed to appeal to teachers wishing to diversify or experiment, and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheryl Pelteret</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheryl Pelteret]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been involved in language teaching for the past 30 years &#8211; as a teacher, editor and writer. After completing my degree at the University of Cape Town, I moved from teaching English as a first and second language, to EFL &#8211; first in the UK and then in Turkey, where I taught students of all ages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November&#8217;s Delta Download</title>
		<link>http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/news/novembers-delta-download-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/news/novembers-delta-download-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Front Page News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[November's Delta Download is now available! Visit the Downloads area for Part 1 in of our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri from Delta Publishing's Professional Perspectives series.]]></description>
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		<title>Humanising Your Coursebook &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<comments>http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/downloads/humanising-your-coursebook-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helen Beesley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Downloads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Download Part 1 in our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri here for FREE. Humanising Your Coursebook, part of the Professional Perspectives series, provides a wide range of original, imaginative, humanistic activities and techniques which will give new life to any coursebook. Designed to appeal to teachers wishing to diversify or experiment, and to students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Model Answers and IELTS Writing &#8211; why and how?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/development/model-answers-and-ielts-writing-why-and-how-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lewis Richards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his last blog,  Richard Brown described the thinking behind how we organised ‘IELTS Advantage Writing Skills’, and in this one I’d like to talk a little bit about the thinking behind one of the key components of each unit of the book – model answers. Our book has nine units, and each unit starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching particle meanings for phrasal verbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Walter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is there any value in trying to teach students the meanings of adverbs and prepositions commonly used in phrasal verbs? Could it help them understand phrasal verbs they have never met before? &#160; I was thinking about this the other day when a friend told me she was &#8216;Hoxtoned out&#8217;, by which she meant that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phrasal verbs and collocation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Woodford</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[collocations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our two books for Delta cover the topics of phrasal verbs and collocation, but of course, the topics often coincide.  In Collocations for Natural English, we have a unit called &#8216;Collocations with phrasal verbs&#8217;, presenting collocations that consist of a phrasal verb plus a noun (usually) or an adjective (occasionally) – things like put on [...]]]></description>
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