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 was Deputy Teaching Centre Manager at the British Council in Jordan.

Richard has now written two of three articles called Podcasting for beginners for Modern English Teacher. He also gave a presentation about podcasting at the IATEFL conference 2007 in Aberdeen. He has been interviewed about pie for the 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 conferences in Hanoi, Thailand 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 calledEffective 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 was author of the month in August. Her latest project is co-writing the beginner level ofGlobal - the latest range of course books for adults from Macmillan. Look out for the big launch early next year!

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