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Gary Pathare has taught English in the Dubai Men’s College (HCT)
Foundations program since 2001, after ten years’ teaching English and
teacher training in Spain. His main professional interest is in developing
and sharing new teaching approaches and materials to support them;
sets of his Foundations materials are used throughout the 17-campus
HCT college system. Gary is author of many ELT course books, including
Headway Academic Skills, Headway Plus and Milestones B1 and B2
(Oxford University Press), Unlock Basic Literacy (Cambridge University
Press), and Skillful 4 (MacMillan), and he has published articles on
teaching writing, reading, and pedagogical uses of IT. He is a winner of
the UAE IT Challenge for tertiary teacher’s projects, and has extensive
experience as an IELTS and Cambridge examiner, IDP consultant, and
exam item writer for the UAE national exam body and the British Council
APTIS. Gary has an M.Ed. (TESOL) from Newcastle, with a dissertation
focus on teaching spelling to Arabic L1 Foundations students, a Trinity
Licentiate Diploma in TESOL, and a degree in law.

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