The pie team

Podcastsinenglish.com is a partnership between Richard Cain and Jackie McAvoy. Between them they have almost thirty years of teaching English as a foreign language and teacher training experience. They met while working for the British Council in Vietnam. They both have the Cambridge DELTA, and Richard has an MA in TESOL.

At various British Council centres Richard has been responsible for examinations, teacher training and young learners. Until recently he managed the British Council Teaching Centre in Jordan. He has written articles about Podcasting for Modern English Teacherand presented papers at international conferences. These include at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, The American University in Cairo (AUC) and the 2007 IATEFL conference in Aberdeen. He has been interviewed about pie for English Teaching Professional magazine.

Jackie is an author for Macmillan Education. She also spoke at an IATEFL conference - in 2005 in Cardiff on writing. She has since given other presentations on reading or writing at the VTTN conference in Hanoi and Thai TESOL in Bangkok, Thailand. Her first book was Essential Reading which was published in August 2007. It is aimed at the Asian market. She has since rewritten the book for the international market and this is called Effective Reading.

Jackie is also a regular contributor to the Macmillan teaching website onestopenglish where she has written many lesson plans for the reading and writing sections. Her most recent work for onestop is a series of video / audio projects. She has been author of the month.

Her latest project was co-writing the beginner level of Global - the latest range of course books for adults from Macmillan. You can try a free unit here.

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