Author Archives: alexcase

Another reason for not using the official textbook flashcards

Posted on 23/03/2013 by alexcase

They are usually expensive, have naff pictures and allow no flexibility about whether you have the words on the front or rear or not, but this is about something less obvious. It took me years to notice this, but students … Continue reading →

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How much could search engines affect what we teach?

Posted on 21/03/2013 by alexcase

A version of this has existed for years in the teachers’ room – ideas in books with good indexes and photocopiable pages get over-used while others are ignored. In the same way, things which are easy to find in books … Continue reading →

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Video in EFL page sorted

Posted on 20/03/2013 by alexcase

Five articles and 21 worksheets for past tenses, present tenses, future tenses, conditionals, prepositions, modals, reported speech, countable and uncountable, infinitive of purpose, feelings vocabulary, false friends, fluency practice, reference expressions, and personality words. EFL video games/ worksheets Including some … Continue reading →

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10 ladder games for learning English (TEFLtastic classics Part 11)

Posted on 20/03/2013 by alexcase

This is a kind of like a communicative version of the board game “snakes and ladders”, and quite possibly the best way of getting students to practise the same language over and over without getting bored. Students ask each other … Continue reading →

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Teaching ideas for I have/ he has etc

Posted on 17/03/2013 by alexcase

Two new articles, also perfect for “have got”, should that not be on your list of British English which is not worth teaching. How to teach have/ have got – LINK FIXED Games for have/ have got – LINK FIXED Also an … Continue reading →

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Places to publish TEFL articles links

Posted on 14/03/2013 by alexcase

Updated 9 March 2017 Please let me know if anything below is missing, in the wrong section or in the wrong order (the sections or entries in each section) – because I’m sure all of those three things are true. Places … Continue reading →

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Teaching Simple Past

Posted on 13/03/2013 by alexcase

Drawing up the index page for Everybody Up 4 reminded me that I’ve published quite a lot of Simple Past recently, all suitable for both young learners and adults: How to teach Past Simple Guess the past time game (with … Continue reading →

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Supplementary materials for Everybody Up 4

Posted on 10/03/2013 by alexcase

Ten photocopiables by far with extra fun and useful language for this highish level primary text, and many more coming soonish: Everybody Up worksheets

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Places to publish guest blog posts about TEFL

Posted on 07/03/2013 by alexcase

Here’s a list that I came up with after a couple of hours of research. If I’ve missed or wrongly categorised any, or if you’d like to let us know why one blog especially deserves people’s guest posts of any … Continue reading →

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Three totally original ELT publishing ventures

Posted on 05/03/2013 by alexcase

– an e-books only ELT publishing company/ joint venture, networking and training for ELT writers, and the first agent for ELT writers. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to share their originality, because someone else has already beaten me to interviewing the exact … Continue reading →

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