One day, I realised that I needed to take my students away from the imaginary and unrealistic texts often found in coursebooks, and bring them much closer to their teacher, real-life situations and the language and phrases used by native speakers. Therefore, I started to write texts about my own experiences living and working abroad, travelling around the world, renting a flat and numerous other situations. Not all of the texts are about me. I also write about news events and offer my viewpoints on them. Compared with most English language texts found on the Internet and in coursebooks, PELC texts are predominantly written in the first person. I make sure that the language in my texts resembles that of spoken English rather than formal written English. This is achieved through the use of personal pronouns (“I” and “we”), collocations, phrasal verbs and contractions (“I’ve” instead of “I have” and so on).

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