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About Joanne Taylore-KnowlesMickey RogersSteve Taylore-Knowles

Mickey Rogers Growing up in Texas surrounded by animals I always knew that I would become a veterinarian. I guess that's why I became an English teacher. Of course my dream of being a vet was way before people were talking about things like multiple intelligences - all I knew was that I wasn't exactly gifted in the areas of math and science. But I always had a book in my hand and I was fairly adept at stringing together more than two words at a time so my future seemed to lie more with words than with numbers and formulas. I graduated from the University of Texas in 1975 with a degree in Spanish and Portuguese and with my diploma in hand promptly got a job as a tree surgeon. Doing physical labor in Texas in August was not my idea of a good time nor was it a very promising career path so I decided to get out of the trees and go to graduate school. While I was in graduate school I began teaching at the University of Texas Intensive English Program in Austin where I taught off and on for about 10 years. After finishing my Master's in TEFL in 1980 I went to Bogota where I taught at the Centro Colombo-Americano and obtained an advanced degree in going to parties and dancing. Since then I have taught English in Sevilla Barcelona San Francisco and again Austin. I was teaching there in 1987 when a colleague asked me if I wanted to go to Mexico City and work for a publisher. I said no thinking that it was an awfully big city and also that you probably couldn't get Texas barbecue there. Having said no I moved to Mexico City in 1988 where I have been ever since. At Macmillan I have worked as a teacher trainer a sales rep an editor a managing editor a manager of academic services and finally as a freelance author which should give me more free time but doesn't. I co-wrote Style Skyline and Attitude. Lindsay Warwick is a teacher and teacher trainer at Bell International College Cambridge teaching English to young adults from around the world many of whom are preparing to go to a British university. She is a CELTA trainer and trains overseas teachers in the UK and abroad in general methodology new learning technologies and British culture. She has written materials for various coursebooks some of which includeInside Out and Gateway. Steve Taylore-Knowles has been involved in ELT for over 20 years as a teacher examiner trainer and author. He holds BA (Hons) and MA degrees from the University of Warwick and is a Licentiate of Trinity College London (Dip TESOL). His most recent courses published by Macmillan are Open Mind (2014) and the American English Mind series. He has also written a number of other successful courses including Laser and Destination. He served on the Executive Board of TESOL Greece and regularly speaks on various aspects of English Language Teaching at conferences and events around the world. He has now relocated to his home county of Lancashire in the north-west of England where he lives with his wife and young daughter. He regularly speaks on various aspects of ELT at conferences and events around the world and enjoys the fact that his work takes him to so many diverse places. When he's not working Steve tries to find time to go fishing and learn golf. Joanne Taylore-Knowles moved out to Greece where she worked as an English language teacher. She taught a range of students there from young learners up to adults.