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April 2014 Onestopenglish bulletin: Skills It's time to show off our skills here on onestopenglish as we round up a selection of resources tailored to developing language, learning and life skills. Find practical classroom tips to help support your teaching in Adrian Tennant's Teaching matters series and lesson plans to cover all areas of language development in our Skills section. Want more? Our Lesson Share section is full of skills-based activities from our community of teachers. Explore our archive and – if you've got your own teaching skills you'd like to share – enter our competition to see your own work published on our site! Listening and Speaking Listen up and speak out! Focus on your students' communication skills with teaching tips and activities dedicated to getting the most out of their listening and speaking practice. And if you're looking for something fresh to reinvigorate your teaching, Luke and James Vyner's IATEFL talk on Transforming EFL materials is now available on our YouTube channel! Cinematic listening: A ghost's guide to London Listening skills: Top tips Listening matters: Process listening Speaking spontaneously Speaking matters: Developing fluency Reading and Writing Find all the right resources to develop vocabulary, comprehension and literacy with articles and teaching strategies from our methodology bank. Love language? Explore our latest selection of Macmillan Dictionary BuzzWord lesson plans. This month Macmillan Dictionary Online celebrates its fifth birthday so make sure to visit the Dictionary site for more wordy resources. Writing matters: Types of writing: Short texts Vocabulary matters: What do words mean? Reading matters: What is reading? Teenagers: Reading 1: Reading in class Macmillan Dictionary Buzzword: anecdata Life Skills Continuing our Macmillan Year of Life Skills, this month it's all about having respect for others. Visit our onestopenglish life skills page for more themed lessons or head over to Macmillan English to see all of our free resources to date. Respect Others – We can't choose who we work with Get Thinking – Museums Know Yourself – Have you ever?... Get Organised – Opening a hotel Coming up in May ... There's more skill to come as this May we invite you to our Macmillan Life Skills Day! Join us for an entire day of thought-provoking presentations and practical workshops, featuring talks from Jeanne Perrett, Robert Campbell and Jonathan Marks and more as we explore all the benefits of teaching life skills. Register online to attend our free event on May 14th. We'll be announcing more details including the rest of our speaker line-up in the coming weeks. Be the first to hear more and sign up to the Macmillan Education mailing list.