Gavin Dudeney's picnic in the park

Which park would you go to?
Any of London's inner-city parks.

Why?
I like the feeling (and smells) of city-centre parks, greenery surrounded by tower blocks and cars.

Who would you go with?
No-one, parks are good places to wander on your own.

What would you take to the park?
- a book (Nearly) anything by Gabriel García Márquez.
- a CD 13 by Blur.
- a magazine Private Eye.
- a video to watch later Betty Blue.
- anything else? my portable computer.

Inside your picnic basket what would you take
- to eat? Goat's cheese salad, mango crumble for dessert.
- to drink? A bottle of red wine, lots of good coffee and a small tot of Mascaró (Catalan cognac) .

Who would you like to meet in the park?
Friends who live in London.

What would you talk about?
How much better everything was in the old days.

What would you do afterwards?
Go home for a long bath, catch up on my email and tease the cat.

Gavin leads the team of web designers, responsible for the design and implementation of Netlanguages, the online language course. He has also set up Internet centres and services for schools in Australia, Portugal, Brazil and England. With Robert Campbell he set up and maintains its-online, one of the most popular EFL sites. Gavin is the author of The Internet and the Language Classroom (CUP, 2000. 2nd Edition, 2007), and How to Teach English with Technology with Nicky Hockly (Longman, 2007). He is also the author of many print and online articles in ELT media.

Click here to read a transcript of Gavin Dudeney's richmondpark chat, The Future of Language Learning?.

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