Hello, I'm Vivienne Arnold. I ve been a youth hostel warden, a post woman, an Equal Opportunities Officer and now I m a teacher. You can see that I didn t take the direct path into teaching, but took the scenic route and along the way chose the road to Munich, where I now live. I teach at the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Volkshochschule and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and I recently completed a Masters degree in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. I don t like planning too much when I teach there s always something that jumps out in the lesson to use and exploit. And I do like having fun in the classroom!
Hello, I am Vanessa Clark. After a degree in modern languages and my postgraduate studies in education in the UK, I ran away to Munich `for one year and stayed for eight years as an English teacher and later as a Director of Studies. My classroom experience with adult learners in Germany and my teacher training role there is what I ve found most useful in writing Refresh Now, Network Now and English Compass, as good coursebooks must be designed with both learners and teachers in mind. I now teach EFL back home in the UK and keep my connection with Germany through my work for Ernst Klett Sprachen.
Hello! I am Viv Midlane. I ve been an English Language Teacher since 1982, and taught in Greece, Belgium, Italy and the UK. I ve also worked in a `wide variety of other fields including working to develop technology to help disabled people in their day to day lives. This included teaching DJing skills to profoundly deaf teenagers. I returned to University in my 40s to take a Masters degree in English Language Teaching and Educational Technology, and am `thinking about taking a PhD one day. Now I work as a writer, teacher and examiner. In my spare time I go sailing and hill walking and play harmonica and guitar in blues and rock bands around Manchester.
Hello, I am Dagmar Taylor. I ve been teaching English as a foreign language in Germany for over twenty years. After twenty, I decided to stop counting! My name looks German, but I m actually from Scotland. After completing my Masters in German Studies, I moved to Bavaria and started teaching English. I wrote the 'English worldwide' and 'English at work' pages for three books in the Network Now series. I also write and edit for an English language magazine. I love writing teaching materials because I can put both my classroom experience and my creativity to good use. When I m not writing or teaching, I enjoy baking or spending time outdoors with my two children and our dog.
