Network Now A2.1 + A2.2 digital

Hello, I am Vanessa Clark. After a degree in modern languages and my postgraduate studies in education in the UK, I ran away to Munich 'for one year' and stayed for eight years as an English teacher and later as a Director of Studies. My classroom experience with adult learners in Germany and my teacher training role there is what I've found most useful in writing Refresh Now, Network Now and English Compass, as good coursebooks must be designed with both learners and teachers in mind. I now teach EFL back home in the UK and keep my connection with Germany through my work for Ernst Klett Sprachen.

Hello, I am Victoria Adams. An interest in people led me to initially study Psychology, which has come in useful over the years of teaching English, but it was my desire to see the world which brought me to EFL. After a brief stint in a small town in Spain and then Berlin I discovered Munich, where I stayed for 12 years. I initially began teaching general and business English then moved on to teacher training and just before my departure back to the UK had the great pleasure of meeting the editorial team and being able to start working with them, initially on a Compass project and then with the Network Now Series. I currently live and work in Yorkshire, dividing my time between teacher training on CELTA and DELTA courses, writing and giving presentations for Ernst Klett Sprachen.

Hello, I'm Vivienne Arnold. I've been a youth hostel warden, a post woman, an Equal Opportunities Officer and now I'm a teacher. You can see that I didn't take the direct path into teaching, but took the scenic route and along the way chose the road to Munich, where I now live. I teach at the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Volkshochschule and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and I recently completed a Masters degree in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. I don't like planning too much when I teach - there's always something that jumps out in the lesson to use and exploit. And I do like having fun in the classroom!

Hello. I am Lynda Hübner - but don't be taken in by the umlaut - I married it! I am English, though I've lived in Munich for . goodness me! - nearly forty years! And I have spent a lot of that time teaching English and writing EFL books for the Network Now and Refresh Now series. As a result, I have very little spare time - but I have managed to have a couple of kids and a couple of cats.

Hello! I am Viv Midlane. I've been an English Language Teacher since 1982, and taught in Greece, Belgium, Italy and the UK. I've also worked in a 'wide variety' of other fields including working to develop technology to help disabled people in their day to day lives. This included teaching DJing skills to profoundly deaf teenagers. I returned to University in my 40s to take a Masters degree in English Language Teaching and Educational Technology, and am 'thinking about' taking a PhD one day. Now I work as a writer, teacher and examiner. In my spare time I go sailing and hill walking and play harmonica and guitar in blues and rock bands around Manchester.

Hello, I am Dagmar Taylor. I've been teaching English as a foreign language in Germany for over twenty years. After twenty, I decided to stop counting! My name looks German, but I'm actually from Scotland. After completing my Masters in German Studies, I moved to Bavaria and started teaching English. I wrote the 'English worldwide' and 'English at work' pages for three books in the Network Now series. I also write and edit for an English language magazine. I love writing teaching materials because I can put both my classroom experience and my creativity to good use. When I'm not writing or teaching, I enjoy baking or spending time outdoors with my two children and our dog.