Loads on my new favourite topics reporting verbs, verb patterns and subject questions, but also business communication reviews, social English, tenses, inversion, there is/ are, crime vocabulary, clothes vocabulary, animal vocabulary, academic writing (specifically the neglected topic of writing academic bios), word formation, writing reports, language of opinions, time expressions, CPE, passive voice, numbers, conjunctions, etc. (See the index pages on all those topics for more PDFs and teaching tips on each).
Arranged more or less with the newest top (possibly meaning with the most useful for you bottom):
New TEFL articles 2020 Q2
How to teach question formation (basic object questions, subject questions, indirect questions/ embedded questions, etc)
How to teach verb plus gerund and infinitive
How to teach conversational reactions (“That’s a shame”, “No way!”, etc – often the missing step in student conversations)
How to teach reporting verbs (by far the most important and useful part of reported speech)
How to teach starting and ending conversations
New TEFL PDFs 2020 Q2
Present Progressive for the present and future simplest responses game
Small talk questions with how roleplays
Is there…? Are there any…? coin drawing game
It is/ They are with adjectives pick and draw
Cambridge Proficiency (CPE) Use of English practice of inversion (mainly for sentence transformations, but including other parts too)
Inversion presentation and practice
Language learning materials reviews (learner training and useful vocabulary for reviews)
Whose…? possessive adjectives drawing games
Meeting people and small talk yes/no questions games (a nice warmer for social English and yes/ no questions)
Present Perfect and countable/ uncountable competition game
Ranking weak and strong opinion phrases
Reporting on reports (useful language for talking about and writing reports, including hedging/ generalising)
Meeting for the first time and again needs analysis and questions review (a nice first lesson for social English, question formation, or indeed any course where students are meeting you or each other for the first time)
Unreal past sentence completion games
Times discuss and agree (discussion to practise time expressions)
First contact brainstorming and jigsaw (email, telephone and face to face)
First contact functions card game (good practice after the activities above)
Cambridge Proficiency (CPE) Use of English Part 4 Sentence Transformations on verb patterns
Describing social issues with the passive voice
Life events vocabulary speaking (ask and tell coin game and storytelling, with collocations and word formation practice)
Different ways of saying numbers reversi memory game
Animals guessing game and discussion
Subject questions discussion activities
Subject questions trivia quizzes
Dictating longer and longer checking/ clarifying games – UPDATED
Classroom language for Zoom classes activities
How questions simplest responses game
How questions and answers the same or different
Reporting verbs the same or different
Names of jobs subject questions quiz
Suffixes for describing people subject questions quiz
Advice on academic bios for different situations
People related to crime subject questions quiz
Subject questions about this class
Subject questions personalised quizzes
Subject questions drawing game (with animal vocabulary and clothes vocabulary)
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