He was born in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, in 1947. He graduated in French and Spanish from the University of Sheffield in 1968. After two years dedicated to the comparative study of contemporary theater, he decided to devote himself fully to teaching, first French and Spanish as foreign languages in Manchester, and then English, serving as a teacher and then as director of studies at the Sagasta Language Center in Madrid.
He expanded his professional qualifications with the certificate of aptitude awarded by the Official School of Languages of Madrid and the Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) diploma from the Royal Society of Arts in London. He also entered the publishing world as director for the Iberian Peninsula of the British publishing house ‘Thomas Nelson and Sons’, participating in the creation of textbooks and offering training workshops for teachers.
Currently, he is a professor of English at the Reina Sofía School of Music, editorial director of the professional pedagogical journal English Teaching, and director of a series of methodology books for English teachers.