Jon Hird is based in Oxford, UK, where he divides his time between teaching English at the University of Oxford, teacher training and writing ELT materials. Jon has a particular interest in Grammar and EAP and has written and contributed to a number of grammar, resource and course books, most recently including Language Hub, Keynote, Oxford EAP, Oxford Learner's Pocket Verbs and Tenses, Roadmap and Navigate. This was not the first time Jon has led a session for MATEFL. In December 2008 he led two sessions the topics of which were ‘Words have grammar’ and ‘Colours, cronies and cohesion – making it meaningful in the classroom’