Adrian Underhill
Videos & Podcasts
Videos & Podcasts
Community Language Learning in Practice. Adrian Underhill, HLT Digital 2023.
Humanists Think there is a Need for a Safe Learning Environment. Adrian Underhill, HLT Digital 2023.
The “Silent Way”. Adrian Underhill, HLT Digital 2023.
The First People to Influence the Development of Humanistic Education. Adrian Underhill, HLT Digital, 2023.
The Idea of the “Inner Voice” and the “Silent Way”. Adrian Underhill, HLT Digital 2023.
Macmillan Education ELT. 2007. Adrian Underhill on Successful Pronunciation 1. (Macmillan).
Macmillan Education ELT. 2008. Adrian Underhill on Successful Pronunciation 1. (Macmillan)
Macmillan Education ELT. 2011. Introduction to Teaching Pronunciation.
International House World Organisation. 2013. Adrian Underhill - Demand High 2.
International House World Organisation. 2013. The Simon Greenall Award - More information from Adrian Underhill.
Sebastian Lesniewski. 2016. Adrian Underhill - Improvisation: A Response to Complexity in Class and School Management.
Macmillan Education ELT. 2017. Pronunciation Skills with Adrian Underhill. (Playlist of 40 Videos).
BrELT. 2017. 'Pronunciation is in Everything – Even Grammar!' BrELT.
IH Torun. 2017. Adrian Underhill at the IH Torun International Teacher Training Day.
Spainwise. 2018. Adrian Underhill Finger Correction - International House.
The Hands Up Project. 2019. Classroom Drama and Connected Speech - Adrian Underhill (Part 1).
British Council | TeachingEnglish. 2020. Proprioception in Learning New Sounds, Words and Connected Speech.
AISLi Associazione Italiana Scuole di Lingue. 2020. "Kitchen Table Teaching: Effective Teaching Online." AISLi webinar.
Cartagena TV. 2020. Adrian Underhill with students at EOI in Cartagena, Spain. (Partly in Spanish).
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. 2014. The English Language Teachers Summer Seminar.
International House British School Reggio Calabria. 2019. 3 minutes with Adrian Underhill.
Anglo Uruguay. 2019. Interview with Adrian Underhill for the 15th Anglo Congress.
We’re All in This Together. 2020. Interview with Adrian Underhill on We’re All in This Together.
2017. Macmillan Education ELT. Episode 6: Adrian Underhill interview
Podcasts
2016. Macmillan English. Macmillan Asia: Upgrader #1 A Pronunciation Boost UP. (source)
2018. DEVELOPOD - The IATEFL TDSIG Podcast. TDSIG Developod, Episode 4 - Adrian Underhill, Emancipatory Teaching and Expression. (source)
2022. Podbean. Pronunciation and Storytelling with Adrian Underhill ❤️#276. Rock n' Roll English. (source)
Other videos
2012. Teaching English: British Council. IATEFL Online Plenary. (source)
2014. Macmillan Education ELT. Adrian Underhill: Teaching Difficult Sounds. (source)
2015. Macmillan Education ELT. Adrian Underhill: Teaching Pronunciation Skills. (source)
2017. Macmillan Education ELT. Pronunciation Skills: English for Italians. (source)
2020. The Creativity Group. A Sense of Plausibility with Adrian Underhill. (source)
2020. TeachingEnglish - British Council. Teaching Vowel Sounds. (source)
Adrian Underhill
Recommended books
Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become
Carl R. Rogers
The three most important moving parts in a teaching learning relationship. And none of them touched on in our mainstream methodology or training.
Impro
Keith Johnstone
The essence of impro, and for me one of the essential parts of teaching, along with Roger's three above.
Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
Margaret Wheatley
For anyone that tries to organise anyone else, once you realise that humans don't go in straight lines.
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
Fritjof Capra
How everything is connected to everything, the basic ideas of systems thinking. This changes my take on everything, including teaching, being in an organisation, and leadership.
Action Inquiry: the Secret of Transforming and Timely Leadership
Bill Torbet and Associates
The most exciting form of action inquiry I have come across, and well suited to the working with the wider systems of which one is part.
How We Learn and How We Should be Taught Volume 1: An Introduction to the Work of Caleb Gattegno
Roslyn Young and Piers Messum
An excellent introduction to the thinking of Caleb Gattegno. For me the single most important educator.
Place in HLT
Adrian’s and Jim Scrivener’s lasting gift to HLT is Demand High ELT: their idea of learning-centred teaching and the idea that language is a way for the learners to express their voices and speak from the heart. When asked to describe his methodology in just a few words, for Adrian it is “to be alive, alert and relate to the people in front of me”.
