I’m off to the UK on Sunday to take part in Occupy IATEFL*, so here are lots of worksheets and not lots of articles to keep you busy until I get back. Recent stuff I haven’t mentioned yet top:
Worksheets
Meeting people and meeting people again review
Verb patterns classification and speaking
Giving directions in British and American English
Meeting people cultural differences and useful phrases
Eiken Level 1 speaking practice
Classify and rank the formal and informal emailing phrases
Give advice on emailing and other business communication (including good advice and function language for them to give each more such tips)
Your week countable and uncountable (the best way I’ve found yet of personalising countable and uncountable nouns)
Surveying the audience in presentations (a great way of making presentations more interactive and hooking the audience)
Connecting with the audience in presentations (ditto)
Making arrangements by telephone game
Using rhetorical questions in presentations
Use the starting and ending emails phrases
Telephoning in English discussion and personalised practice
Analyse and write IELTS Speaking Part Two Tasks
The stages of planning a presentation
IELTS Speaking Part One functional language practice game
The last time… narrative tense review and guessing game
Countable & uncountable travel vocabulary and speaking
English greetings functional language review
Giving directions make it clearer
Starting and ending emails game
Remembering and forgetting board game
Checking your understanding or their understanding game
Trends and comparing contrasting
Opening and closing presentations
Compare and contrast your writing
Comparing and contrasting academic writing tasks
Brainstorm and rank the comparing and contrasting phrases
Comparing phrases the same or different
Present Simple cultural customs bluffing game
Present Simple guess the country
Present Simple reading, speaking and drawing game
Present Simple work and leisure discussion questions
Common Business English verbs Present Simple
Academic emails more and more errors game
Comparing useful language to talk about academic writing
Classify and rank the First Certificate email and letter phrases
FCE (First Certificate in English) Use of English Part Two brainstorming games
FCE (First Certificate in English) Open Cloze card games
First Certificate emails and letters prepositions pairwork
Language for First Certificate reviews open cloze and brainstorming
First Certificate open cloze for relative clauses
Open cloze practice of language for First Certificate stories
Articles
How to teach FCE Use of English Part Two open cloze
How to teach comparing and contrasting
Eiken is a completely new one for me, but loads more articles and photocopiables on all the other topics via the dropdown menus above.
*Partly true.