Dagmar Škorpíková is a school teacher with over 15 years of experience teaching at a secondary level, both at the schools of general education and vocational schools. She is a co-writer and editor of various teaching materials for secondary schools, cooperating e.g with the Oxford University Press, Klett, Fragment, and Tauris. For about ten years, she has been working as a CERMAT consultant and teacher trainer focusing on the State Maturita Exam. Being a teacher trainer, she has become a member of AMATE, Association of Teacher Educators, and used to work as a member of its board. At the moment, she focuses mainly on the area of use of modern technologies in language teaching.

Matthew Smith is an English teacher and teacher trainer from Southend in Essex. He has been teaching English since 2004 and has worked in the Czech Republic, Spain, Turkey and England. Matthew is CELTA and DELTA qualified and also holds various qualifications from IHWO (International House World Organisation) including the IHCYLT and IHVYL. He now works as the EAL Specialist at ISB (International School of Brno), is a speaking examiner for Cambridge and tutors on a number of teacher development courses in the Czech Republic, abroad and online.