Innovations Upper-Intermediate

Hugh Dellar is a teacher, teacher trainer, and coursebook writer based in London. He has over twenty-five years of experience in the field and is the co-founder of Lexical Lab. He has co-authored two five-level General English series, Outcomes and Innovations, both published by National Geographic Learning, and one level of the high-school series Perspectives. Andrew has been in English language teaching for over thirty years. He started out as a teacher in Valencia, Spain. Since then he has largely worked in colleges and universities in London but also spent four more years in Spain and conducted talks and workshops many other countries. He met Hugh at the University of Westminster and started writing with him on the series Innovations. Since then they have written several coursebook series as well as methodology books (Teaching Lexically DELTA Publishing) and Grammar Nonsense and what to do about it. After leaving Westminster in 2014 Andrew and Hugh have been running www.lexicallab.com which provides online language classes for teachers and other professional development both online and face-to-face. Andrew has a wide variety of interest outside of ELT including reading, theatre-going, dancing, gardening, playing football and politics. He currently lives in London with his wife, Nadera, and her dog.

1. Talking about people 2. Friends and relatives 3. Your interests 4. Unusual interests 5. Big decisions 6. Flying 7. Your weekend 8. Party animals 9. Last night 10. Relationships 11. Telling stories 12. Difficult to believe 13. Old friends 14. Art 15. Describing things 16. Film and television 17. Cars and cities 18. Annoying things 19. Your future 20. The world of work

• 1. Talking about people2. Friends and relatives3. Your interests4. Unusual interests5. Big decisions6. Flying7. Your weekend8. Party animals9. Last night10. Relationships11. Telling stories12. Difficult to believe13. Old friends14. Art15. Describing things16. Film and television17. Cars and cities18. Annoying things19. Your future20. The world of work