Author Archives: alexcase

New Aptis tips and materials page

Posted on 27/07/2019 by alexcase

Not sure how many students and teachers are interested in actually preparing for Aptis, but as I seem to be the only person to have published games and photocopiable worksheets on the topic, am hoping for a large market share … Continue reading →

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128 using movement to teach and learn English links

Posted on 15/07/2019 by alexcase

The ridiculously large number in the title of this post includes all the links here, in other pages it links to, and in my previous post on actions for teaching and learning grammar. Body language and gestures in TEFL articles … Continue reading →

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Learning grammar through body language and gestures links

Posted on 01/07/2019 by alexcase

Some people may have noticed from my last list of new stuff that “my boom” (as we say in Janglish) is writing about moving around and getting students to move around in class. In fact, it’s so much of an … Continue reading →

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Line by line brainstorming (TEFLtastic classics Part 37)

Posted on 20/06/2019 by alexcase

As with most of these nearly 40 so-called “TEFLtastic classics”, this post is to introduce some variations on a long-standing favourite that I reckon make it even more of a classic. I originally came across the idea of brainstorming line … Continue reading →

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New jobs vocabulary page

Posted on 03/06/2019 by alexcase

I’ve published a stack of PDFs on names of jobs over the years, so not sure how I never thought of making a page of worksheets on the topic before, but here it finally is: Jobs vocabulary page – NEW … Continue reading →

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New TEFL articles and printables spring 2019

Posted on 07/05/2019 by alexcase

Newest ones not mentioned before top of each section. Lists of useful language The big list of classroom language with gestures – NEW New TEFL Articles Using body language and gestures to teach grammar – NEW 52 TPR grammar games … Continue reading →

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New grammar for IELTS page

Posted on 09/04/2019 by alexcase

New article, new worksheets, old worksheets and places for upcoming worksheets on the most vital grammar points for IELTS on my new page on the topic here: IELTS grammar page

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New describing objects page

Posted on 07/04/2019 by alexcase

Put up a new worksheet on “How long is it?”, “What does it look like?” etc and then realised there was no page on the topic. So now there is one, with links to related stuff on colours, materials, etc: … Continue reading →

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Updated guide to Cambridge Proficiency books

Posted on 05/03/2019 by alexcase

I’ve recently been researching the next book for my Cambridge CPE class and found that all the info online is out of date, so thought I’d summarise my findings here. I also have my own C2 Proficiency e-book here and … Continue reading →

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Lots of new British and American English resources

Posted on 26/02/2019 by alexcase

Over the last few months I’ve put up articles on teaching UK and US grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, numbers, body language and gestures, dates and times, and functional language, plus carefully collated lists of the important vocabulary differences to teach … Continue reading →

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