David Hill

David A Hill was born in Walsall, UK in 1952. He qualified as a teacher in 1974. He taught in English primary schools 1974-77, and spent his summers teaching ELT to teenagers. From 1977-9, he worked as a full time ELT teacher in a top school in Northern Italy, teaching all ages and levels. He returned to Britain to do a 1 year Dip.Ed.ELT course at Exeter University, and then worked for Pilgrims for 3 months (summer 1980). He worked for this influential organisation every summer thereafter until 1992.

In October 1980 he moved to Yugoslavia, where he worked as a British Council Lektor until 1986, first at a primary teacher training college in Kosovo, then at the university of NIS. During this time he trained teachers throughout the country, and started publishing articles in Modern English Teacher. He also worked on his M.PHIL research degree, for Exeter University, which was awarded in 1987.

In 1986 he took over as English teaching advisor for Northern Italy, with responsibility for training state school teachers throughout the region. In this capacity he ran in-house and outreach training, working with the Ministry, local education authorities, teachers groups and individual schools, besides organising Europe's largest ELT conference (British Council, Italy) 8 times. In 1990 he published the influential book on using pictures, "Visual Impact", in 1994 an Italian coursebook ("CORPUS") . In 1998 David went freelance, setting up a company in Budapest with his Hungarian wife. He has traveled widely in Europe (UK, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Albania, Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary) and outside (India, Singapore, Chile) for work since then. He is now an associate trainer with Norwich Institute for Language Training, and works in Norwich every summer. His main areas of interest are primary ELT, literature, teacher training and materials writing.

Outside ELT he is a keen naturalist, studies European art and architecture (esp period 1850-1914), plays guitar (blues and folk), writes poetry (3 books published).