Perspectives Upper Intermediate with the Spark platform

Daniel Barber is a teacher, trainer and writer based in Cadiz, Spain. He's taught classes of all types and ages over more than twenty years as well as tutoring and directing Trinity TESOL courses and managing his own school. He is an author for National Geographic Learning's secondary series Perspectives and Look, a seven-level series for young learners of English. His interests include motivation in learning, coaching approaches to teaching English and the science of learning and the brain. Lewis got his first taste of teaching English in Barcelona in the late 1980s. The experience inspired him to get a Master's in TESOL, after which he taught at a university language centre in Arizona and then a manufacturing company in Japan. In 1995, he took an editorial job with a major publisher in Hong Kong developing materials for Asia, and in 1997 became a freelance editor, project manager and writer in the UK. He has worked on books, videos, tests, audio materials, worksheets, apps and online materials for English learners of all ages across the world. He currently lives in York. Amanda Jeffries is a teacher, trainer and author. She grew up in the north of England and after graduating in Modern Languages from Oxford University, did her DELTA and then MA in TEFL at Reading University. She has taught in Chile and in the UK, where her work has included teaching in private language schools, examining for Cambridge exams, running a distance learning Masters course in ELT, and working as Academic Advisor for Language Teaching at Oxford University. She is now based in Oxford, UK, where she teaches English and communication skills to university students and runs training workshops for teachers. She has written English language teaching materials for several major publishers, specialising in advanced English. She has taught in the UK and Chile. 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.