Author Archives: alexcase

New stories and poems for specific language points pages

Posted on 29/01/2018 by alexcase

The really observant might have noticed in my list of the best of 2017 that I’ve started writing stories and poems for language points like passive, requests, comparative and opposites. That’s mainly because I wanted to add links to such things … Continue reading →

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34 EFL sentence completion games (TEFLtastic classics part two revisited)

Posted on 19/01/2018 by alexcase

Just after previously writing about sentence completion guessing games, I realised that the sentence stems were perfect for a bluffing game in which students completed the sentences with a mix of true and made up info – especially useful if students … Continue reading →

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The most TEFLtastic photocopiables of 2017

Posted on 08/01/2018 by alexcase

Of course, it’s not for me to say which of my materials are best, but as no one else is likely to waste an hour or two of their time going through 109 of my worksheets, here they are ranked … Continue reading →

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New TEFLtastic pages in 2017

Posted on 02/01/2018 by alexcase

More general ones I haven’t mentioned before top, and more specialist ones and/ or ones I’ve mentioned before bottom. New articles and worksheets coming for many of them in 2018. Articles (a, an and the) games, worksheets and songs page … Continue reading →

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TEFLtastic in 2017

Posted on 01/01/2018 by alexcase

A Happy New Year to you all. May all our classes in 2018 be even better than those last year! I was too busy last year to show off how busy I’d been, so here’s a summary of the whole year. … Continue reading →

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Three new Xmas worksheets

Posted on 19/12/2017 by alexcase

Some rather last minute or slightly early (depending on how you think about it) Xmas presents from me to you: Xmas and New Year meetings – NEW Xmas vocabulary passive voice guessing game – NEW Xmas vocabulary yes/no questions games (20 … Continue reading →

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New Yes/ No questions classroom activities article and page

Posted on 08/12/2017 by alexcase

Not sure how in ten years and over 200 articles it never occurred to me before, but have finally written a how to article and made a page for it to live on, with 26 photocopiable worksheets on the topic, … Continue reading →

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Lots of new country and nationality word activities

Posted on 21/11/2017 by alexcase

New article on the topic: How to teach country and nationality words – NEW and many of those ideas also available as photocopiable worksheets on my page on the topic, including a few new ones and with more coming soon: … Continue reading →

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47 EFL jigsaw activities (TEFLtastic Classics Part 31)

Posted on 15/11/2017 by alexcase

Another article of mine just published in English Teaching Professional magazine, available here for free and with added links to example worksheets. Now with the worksheets top and the article underneath. If you’d like to help me spend more time … Continue reading →

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Over 200 articles on Usingenglish.com

Posted on 01/11/2017 by alexcase

and believe it or not there are still loads of things I haven’t written about and in fact I feel like I’m just getting started. Gives some indication of the number of things an English teacher has to think about … Continue reading →

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