Author Archives: alexcase

Discuss and agree (TEFLtastic Classics Part 35)

Posted on 10/06/2018 by alexcase

Simplicity itself, and almost infinitely adaptable – students try to come to agreement with the words, phrases, gapped sentences, sentence stems, etc that you give them, making it like an opinions version of Things in Common. Then they try to remember and/ … Continue reading →

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Having a Ball: EFL ball games (TEFLtastic Classics Part 34)

Posted on 03/06/2018 by alexcase

Another of my articles for ETP on basic TEFL games and their many uses and variations. Not many photocopiables possible for this one, but one example included below.   Although I would put the blocks that I wrote about here … Continue reading →

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New TEFL stuff spring 2018 part two

Posted on 29/05/2018 by alexcase

Newest of each kind top of each section. Link to Part One here. New ELT articles How to teach prepositions of time How to teach telling the time in English Teaching ordinal numbers to EFL learners How to teach dates … Continue reading →

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New plurals teaching tips, games and pdfs

Posted on 16/05/2018 by alexcase

Not quite sure how I managed to churn out pages of stuff on Present Perfect Continuous and not a single teaching idea or photocopiable on plural nouns in the first ten years of this blog. I kind of feel like blaming Headway, … Continue reading →

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Cultural differences and useful phrases (TEFLtastic Classics part 33)

Posted on 15/04/2018 by alexcase

This activity originally started as a solution to a problem with one of my favourite activities, tips and useful phrases. The problem is that students often have no idea what good tips are and so the discussion stage doesn’t always work … Continue reading →

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Top 30 pages all polished up

Posted on 25/03/2018 by alexcase

Have expanded and rearranged all my top pages in my continuing quest to make TEFLtastic worth supporting financially. In case you are wondering what those most popular pages are, for the last 3 months they have been: First conditional Passive … Continue reading →

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New TEFL stuff spring 2018

Posted on 12/03/2018 by alexcase

Newest top in each section. For my last list of new materials, with the best of last year, see here. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic. New teaching activities pages Past modals page Ordinal numbers … Continue reading →

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Stacks of fun: EFL blocks games (TEFLtastic classics part 32)

Posted on 06/03/2018 by alexcase

Fourth in my recent series of articles in English Teaching Professional. See bottom of the page for links to a couple of photocopiables, two other articles on the topic, and lots more posts on classic TEFL games. If you like … Continue reading →

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New times, days, months and dates pages

Posted on 26/02/2018 by alexcase

I’ll be adding lots of articles and worksheets over the next few months, but have already added loads of links to new and older worksheets, stories and songs, plus one new article so far. Telling the Time games, worksheets, stories and … Continue reading →

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On a roll – EFL dice games

Posted on 14/02/2018 by alexcase

Another one of my articles in English Teaching Professional, this time accompanied by an old blog post of mine in the TEFLtastic Classics series with stacks of photocopiable dice games. Although it is fairly common to see dice in language … Continue reading →

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