On Saturday February 10th I had the pleasure of seeing JJ Wilson live in Kyiv. Here in Ukraine JJ is best known as one of the authors of Speakout and Total English. He wrote his first Pearson title, Language to Go, when he was just 28 years old and was also authored one of my favourite methodology books, How to Teach Listening. During the presentation he gave lots of practical tips on how to improve listening skills in general and provided some advice for Ukrainian teachers and students on how to pass the new listening part of ZNO.
If you follow our Facebook pages, you'll know that JJ is also a poet, fiction writer and ex-rugby international, playing for England Under-19s in rugby union and Scotland in rugby league. After his event, I spoke to JJ about writing, English teaching and, of course, rugby too.
Thanks very much to JJ Wilson for his time and energy. If you were at any of his three events, I'm sure you enjoyed them just as much as I did.
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