Author Archives: alexcase

Loadsamoney for researching testing

Posted on 09/09/2013 by alexcase

Cambridge are offering up to 15,000 pounds for researching their tests, and the British Council has a whole bunch of awards and prizes of up to 17,500 pounds for similar research, although in their case they don’t say it has … Continue reading →

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Fun questionnaires for TEFLers

Posted on 08/09/2013 by alexcase

While I was clearing up the broken links in the first year of TEFLtastic blog posts came across a whole bunch of vaguely amusing questionnaires that were my most commented on posts at the time. Comments are still open if … Continue reading →

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Free PDF e-books from TESL-EJ

Posted on 05/09/2013 by alexcase

They are also looking for more book ideas to publish: TESL-EJ books The site itself is always well worth a quick look, and they are one of the best places to review for.

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Over 100 first lesson links

Posted on 05/09/2013 by alexcase

My articles on the topic on Onestopenglish got another mention on their newsletter recently. If you’re not a subscriber there, I’ve massively expanded and reorganised my first lessons page here to include: – 10 general articles on the topic – … Continue reading →

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77 ESL dice games (TEFLtastic Classics Part 16)

Posted on 04/09/2013 by alexcase

Dice games for learning English tips and PDFs. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic. EFL dice games article On a Roll – EFL Dice Games (my article in English Teaching Professional magazine) Photocopiable EFL dice … Continue reading →

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Worksheet pages finally all fixed!

Posted on 04/09/2013 by alexcase

There are over 1000 worksheets and tens of index pages, but still shouldn’t have taken me a whole year to update pdfs and other links broken due to the move from TEFL.net in Sept 2012… Anyway, here they all are: … Continue reading →

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The number one thing to think about when writing reviews

Posted on 01/09/2013 by alexcase

A bit like finding the keys the minute you stop looking for them, my most useful insight into writing reviews came just days after giving up editing them. It also came from totally outside TEFL, now that I finally have … Continue reading →

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Dirty tricks by TEFL course providers

Posted on 28/08/2013 by alexcase

I’ve had quite a few TEFL course providers threaten to sue me over the years, and I consider all of those threats to have been basically down and dirty bullying. The clearest case of actual dirty tricks was when the … Continue reading →

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Expect a flood of criminal TEFLers to a school near you

Posted on 27/08/2013 by alexcase

According to the EL Gazette all British Council inspected schools in the UK will need to conduct criminal record checks from 2014, so if the country or school you are in doesn’t insist on such checks a whole bunch of … Continue reading →

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Janglish in Taiwan

Posted on 23/08/2013 by alexcase

Have been desperately searching for more evidence of the influence of Janglish (expressions made in Japan from English and other European sources) to make all that work on my big list of Janglish seem at least partly worthwhile, so was … Continue reading →

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