Lindsay Clandfield is a teacher, teacher trainer and international author from Canada. He is the main author of Macmillan's new award-winning and critically acclaimed adult course Global (2010) and was a part of the author team for the popular Straightforward Series. Lindsay has won prestigious recognition for his writing, most notably for Global and Dealing with Difficulties (Delta Publishing, with co-author Luke Prodromou) both of which earned him a visit to Buckingham Palace to receive an award from the Duke of Edinburgh. After teaching in Mexico, Spain and the UK Lindsay began his writing career with the website Onestopenglish. He became a regular after winning the Lesson Share competition three times in a row. Kate Pickering is a teacher, trainer and writer based in Madrid. She is the author of workbooks for Expressions, student's and teacher's books for Global Beginner and Elementary (with Lindsay Clandfield) and Communicate, a two-level speaking listening course for sixth-formers, all published by Macmillan. She is a regular speaker at Macmillan teachers' events in Spain and elsewhere and she combines writing with her work as Director of the Adults' Department at International House Madrid and teacher training both in-service and on Cambridge CELTA and DELTA programmes. Amanda Jeffries is a teacher, teacher educator and author specialising in teaching advanced learners. She has taught in Chile and in the UK, and is currently working with university students and teachers in Oxford. For Macmillan, she has written the workbook and contributed writing pages for Straightforward Advanced. She is co-author of New Inside Out Advanced. She has also contributed writing, review and study skills sections to the Global series and is co-author of Global Advanced.
