Acknowledgements

This site stands on a long lineage of teachers, writers, and tool- builders. The list below is incomplete by design — it names the direct influences that shape the materials, not every book read along the way.

Didactics and pedagogy Link to heading

• Penny Ur — for the discipline of staged tasks and classroom-tested rationale. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/a-course-in-english-language-teaching/
• Jim Scrivener — for the teacher’s-eye view of what really happens in the room. https://www.macmillaneducation.com
• Scott Thornbury — for vocabulary, lexical approach, and the habit of starting from learner language. https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/
• Paul Nation — for the data behind vocabulary teaching. https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/paul-nation
• David Crystal — for keeping language description honest and alive. https://www.davidcrystal.com
• Council of Europe — CEFR Companion Volume — for the Can-do scaffolding that frames every Unit’s learning objectives. https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages

Content depth — authentic text sources Link to heading

• BBC Learning English — https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish
• The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com
• Project Gutenberg — https://www.gutenberg.org
• Poetry Foundation — https://www.poetryfoundation.org
• The British Library Open Collections — https://www.bl.uk

Tooling Link to heading

• Quarto — https://quarto.org
• Pandoc — https://pandoc.org
• Reveal.js — https://revealjs.com
• Lucide icons — https://lucide.dev
• Source Sans 3 — https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Sans+3
• JetBrains Mono — https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

Structural inspiration Link to heading

The dual-format scaffold (one source, HTML + slides) is adapted from public Quarto course templates and from the long tradition of literate-programming course websites in the open-source community.

Personal Link to heading

To the colleagues who tested half-finished worksheets in their classrooms, and to every student who said “this doesn’t work, try something else”: this site is what it is because of you.

What these acknowledgements mean Link to heading

None of the resources named above is reproduced in the Units. Authentic media are linked as models of language and as starting points; the texts on this site are original. Where openly-licensed material is genuinely reused — a Creative Commons image, a public-domain extract — the attribution sits on the page that uses it and not only here, so that the credit travels with the document when somebody reuses it.

The same applies in reverse. This course is offered under CC-BY, which means it may be copied, adapted and redistributed, including commercially, on the single condition that the origin is named. Nothing here needs an account, a login or a permanent connection.

Licence Link to heading

• Code and site scaffolding: MIT.
• Teaching content (texts, exercises, exams): CC-BY 4.0.
• Quoted material in stimulus texts remains the property of its rightsholders and is cited at point of use.