Voices Pre-Intermediate with the Spark platform

Emily Bryson is an ESOL lecturer, writer, teacher trainer and graphic facilitator. Her first teaching experience was at a summer school in Poland in 2002. After completing her MA in Social Sciences, she moved to South Korea to teach children and teenagers. On returning to Scotland, she took a job as an ESOL lecturer at City of Glasgow college, where she still teaches. Over the years she has completed secondments with the Scottish Refugee Council, Education Scotland and ESOL Network Project. Her materials writing experience extends to various print and digital materials for a number of ELT publishers. She frequently blogs and delivers teacher training. Her current areas of specific interest are the education of people seeking refuge, literacy, inclusion, accessibility, visual literacy and graphic facilitation. Emily is a co-author on the Voices program for young adult and adults from National Geographic Learning.

Christien Lee, who has dual Canadian and British citizenship, has worked in English Language Teaching for more than 20 years. His roles have included teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum developer, materials writer, director of studies, consultant, and author. In addition, he founded and ran an award-winning private language school in Canada for almost ten years. He has wide experience in ELT, but specializes in academic English and, particularly, exam preparation. Currently, his focus is on developing innovative e-learning materials and writing textbooks. He is the author of several ELT titles. This is his first book for National Geographic Learning.