Chris Creed
Co-Owner, Webdesigner, Pedagogical development
Qualified with a DiP. TEFL and a Cert. TEFL from the University of Central Lancashire as well as an M.Ed (Lifelong Learning) from the Open University.
Trained for 18 months to become a coach at L’école Supérieure de Commerce de Toulouse, and has managed a learning solutions company in Toulouse, France since 1996.
Has worked as an EFL teacher in Poland and director of operations and management coach in an international company based in the UK and in France, overseeing the development and running of 8 profit centres. Chris works throughout the world designing and delivering corporate communication programs.
- Webdesign 50%
- Pedagogy 30%
- Podcasting 20%
Susan Barke
Co-owner, pedagogical development, Sales & marketing
With over 20 years’ experience as a language trainer, Sue has run her own professional English language training company since 2007 providing English training for companies based all over France.
Having worked for a major international company in the UK for 10 years before becoming an EFL language trainer, Sue has been able to transfer her experience in sales, marketing and office administration into creating useful and pertinent training courses for English learners.
Sue has a BA in History and Politics (Queen Mary College, University of London) and a BA in French (Royal Holloway, University of London).
- Pedagogical development 50%
- Marketing 30%
- Podcasting 20%
Stan the Jack Russell
Security and biscuit eating
A valued member of the English Podcasts team that ensures that we are not attacked by surprise by the postman, binmen, other dogs barking in the distance, motorbikes, birds or next door’s cat.
- Biscuit eating 90%
- Sleeping 5%
- Bones 5%
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Innovation
Web Technology
Clear Communication
The activities go a lot further into the subjects touched upon in the podcasts, by leveraging multiple media supports, exercises and work on all 4 skills of language learning.
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Covid-19 series part 2: Australia and France, different lockdown situations
Covid-19 series part 2: Australia and France, different lockdown situations https://youtu.be/43kMetLzPzM The virus COVID-19 is a pandemic which means that it is affecting countries all across the globe, but are they all responding in the same way ? To find out we...
Covid-19 series part 1: Adapting to life in lockdown
Covid-19 series part 1: Adapting to life in lockdown Since the beginning of the year we have all been living in strange times. First we watched on TV as the COVID-19 virus took hold in China and then as the weeks went by the virus crept into the Middle East, Europe,...
Vocabulary Experience off the beaten track in India
Sue talks to Chris about some of his experiences in India, including a bucket-list experience seeing wild elephants in the jungle, but what else did he do? Here are some explanations of some of the vocabulary used in the podcast. Return to the podcast...