Author Archives: alexcase

New materials for teaching online

Posted on 03/11/2021 by alexcase

It’s taken me a while, but I’ve finally made a page of materials specifically for Zoom (and useable or easily adaptable for Teams, etc), most of which also teach useful language for explaining how to use the software/ app: Zoom … Continue reading →

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New Teaching Meetings e-book

Posted on 11/10/2021 by alexcase

Over 300 pages of classroom-tested photocopiable activities on starting meetings, chairing, turn taking, giving and responding to opinions and advice, smoothly progressing through the meeting and bringing them to an end, etc, etc. Includes stacks of roleplays and meetings language … Continue reading →

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Three much missed funny TEFL blogs

Posted on 21/09/2021 by alexcase

While searching my blog for broken links, I found that English Droid had disappeared yet again and that English Teacher X and Chase Me Ladies were locked behind walls with invitations needed for entry. Luckily, my selections of highlights from … Continue reading →

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Recommended free Elementary and Pre-Int business self-study materials

Posted on 13/09/2021 by alexcase

This is a list of the best A1 and A2 level materials I could find online. I made this for my students to use while they were waiting for their one-to-one tutorials, to discuss afterwards, and hopefully to use to … Continue reading →

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New TEFL photocopiables and articles summer 2021

Posted on 06/09/2021 by alexcase

While you were all enjoying spending your summer holidays sitting around at home doing nothing, I was enjoying mine sitting around at home doing nothing but writing about TEFL. And here are the results: New TEFL articles summer 2021 Most … Continue reading →

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New too and enough page

Posted on 26/07/2021 by alexcase

Usingenglish.com have asked me for more stuff on articles, determiners and quantifiers, so could add a new article and worksheet on this useful but sometimes tricky point to my totally new page: Too and enough games, worksheets and songs – … Continue reading →

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2021-style invitations lesson

Posted on 21/06/2021 by alexcase

Of all the pre-COVID materials I’ve had to use in the last 15 months, probably the least successful was a lesson where students responded to almost all invitations with “I can’t because of coronavirus” and “Maybe when COVID is gone”. … Continue reading →

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Three new kinds of TEFL board game

Posted on 13/06/2021 by alexcase

I came up with the first of these as part of my trivia quizzes boom, and used it to make this narrative tenses board game. Students work their way around a board game by guessing numbers. On each square they … Continue reading →

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Good and taboo questions (TEFLtastic Classics Part 49)

Posted on 25/05/2021 by alexcase

The best thing you can teach students about almost any language point is how to ask and answer the kinds of questions related to that language which people really ask each other. However, doing just this more than a couple … Continue reading →

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TEFLtastic blogroll updated

Posted on 03/05/2021 by alexcase

It’s the long “Golden Week” break here in Japan, so have had time to do my approximately once yearly look at the links on TEFLtastic. Was pleasantly surprised to see that since this time last year only one or two … Continue reading →

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