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Gordon Lewis studied languages and linguistics at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (B.S.) and at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California (M.S.). He began teaching English in Vienna, Austria, where he taught numerous private clients of all ages and worked in the company service of Inlingua as well. In 1988 he moved to Berlin, where he continued to teach privately. In December 1989, together with an East German partner, he founded Atlantic Connections, the rst private language school in the GDR. Today the Children’s Language School has branches in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Heidelberg, and Cologne. Gordon Lewis currently lives in Munich, where he concentrates on teacher training and curriculum development. He also taught in Russia and was a member of the EC Commission Team of Experts visiting Moscow State University, where he was responsible for evaluating the Philological Faculties and the Faculty of Modern Languages for the TACIS Program.

Günther Bedson is the director for the North-East region of Germany of the Children’s Language School. He also conducts teacher training seminars with Gordon Lewis throughout Germany. Günther Bedson is from Wolverhampton, England, but studied English at the Free University of Berlin, where he was awarded a German teaching degree. He has been with Lewis Languages since 1993.

Alan Maley worked for The British Council from 1962 to 1988, serving as English Language Ofcer in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, and China, and as Regional Representative in South India (Madras). From 1988 to 1993 he was Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust, Cambridge. From 1993 to 1998 he was Senior Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature of the National University of Singapore. He is currently a freelance consultant and Director of the graduate English programme at Assumption University, Bangkok. Among his publications are Literature, in this series, Beyond Words, Sounds Interesting, Sounds Intriguing, Words, Variations on a Theme, and Drama Techniques in Language Learning (all with Alan Duff), The Mind’s Eye (with Françoise Grellet and Alan Duff), Learning to Listen and Poem into Poem (with Sandra Moulding), and Short and Sweet. He is also Series Editor for the Oxford Supplementary Skills series.