Author Archives: alexcase

New possessives activities and pages

Posted on 06/01/2016 by alexcase

New worksheets and a new article up recently on possessive forms, so took that opportunity to split the page into two easier to navigate and slightly expanded sections: Possessive S games, worksheets and songs page Possessive adjectives games, worksheets and … Continue reading →

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New TEFL stuff from the rest of 2015

Posted on 30/12/2015 by alexcase

TEFLtastic blog wasn’t much of a blog in 2015, and it is unlikely to become one again in 2016 given the two unintended consequences of blogging less: One slightly disheartening effect of never blogging was a record-breaking number of hits, … Continue reading →

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New zero conditional games and teaching tips

Posted on 17/12/2015 by alexcase

Went to add my new article and worksheets to my zero conditional page but was surprised to find that I’d never had one. Do now! 18 game ideas and photocopiable classroom activities included, so hopefully worth the wait: Zero conditional games/ … Continue reading →

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New teaching English syllables materials and teaching ideas

Posted on 15/11/2015 by alexcase

Recently had the hard but rewarding experience of writing and giving a nine-hour course just on pronunciation. Spent about 3 hours of that on making sure my students could recognise and produce the right number of syllables, including in famously … Continue reading →

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TESOL International Association set ridiculously low standards for short TEFL courses

Posted on 05/10/2015 by alexcase

God knows something needs to be done to raise the standards of the typical 120-hour-ish TEFL courses that dominate our industry, but TESOL (the larger American version of IATEFL) have quite possibly acheived the opposite with their current attempt. From … Continue reading →

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Ten new(ish) articles on teaching English

Posted on 27/08/2015 by alexcase

Have written a little flurry of new articles during August that I wanted to show off like a primary school kid writing about “What I Did in My Summer Holiday”. Then realised that I haven’t done anything similar this year, so … Continue reading →

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New TEFL pdfs May to July 2015

Posted on 30/07/2015 by alexcase

Didn’t realise that it was so long that I I hadn’t written one of these lists of latest photocopiable material. Can’t say I have any evidence that people were crying out for a bunch of new worksheets from me, but … Continue reading →

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Linking food and drink to other language points

Posted on 20/07/2015 by alexcase

While reorganising my food and drink vocab index pages, noticed that many of them tied it in quite nicely with other language points – buy one language point, get one free! Here are the ones that do that: Food and … Continue reading →

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New Present Simple pdf classroom materials pages

Posted on 14/07/2015 by alexcase

So many activities recently that the main Present Simple photocopiables page had got a bit unmanageable. Hopefully a bit easier to handle now with separate pages for Third Person S Activities and It is/ They are Activities. Links also there … Continue reading →

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Have Cambridge lost interest in the CELTA and Delta?

Posted on 11/07/2015 by alexcase

I’ve been flicking through the Cambridge English annual review (as you do), and was surprised to find just one very brief mention of the CELTA (in Ukraine “Teachers who complete TKT or CELTA can apply for an exemption from the … Continue reading →

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