Author Archives: alexcase

Prepositions activities pages expanded and reorganised

Posted on 20/10/2012 by alexcase

Have added the four articles on activities for prepositions of position that I’ve written over the last couple of months and there are also specific pages on dependent prepositions, prepositions of time and prepositions of movement, plus loads more general prepositions … Continue reading →

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The LinkedIn TEFLer

Posted on 19/10/2012 by alexcase

Even as someone who quit Facebook and will never ever ever tweet, I’ve found LinkedIn a very pleasant and productive place for a TEFL lifer like me to be. Despite its pretence that it’s about a network of people you … Continue reading →

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Numbers pairwork guessing game (TEFLtastic classics Part 9)

Posted on 19/10/2012 by alexcase

A classic activity for numbers, vocabulary and comparatives. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.  Updated 28 February 2022 As a former physics nerd, when my LCCI Teaching English for Business cert tutor told me all … Continue reading →

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Swedish better than Maltese at English

Posted on 17/10/2012 by alexcase

According to a test of the reading, writing and listening levels on 14 to 16 year olds: Maltese second in English No disgrace to be second to the Swedish, but still a little surprising in a country where English is … Continue reading →

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The usefulness – or not – of ELT research

Posted on 17/10/2012 by alexcase

A nicely balanced piece by Penny Ur in the Guardian, with some more combative comments to give it some spice too: The usefulness of TEFL research

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50 The Same or Different games (TEFLtastic Classics Part 8)

Posted on 16/10/2012 by alexcase

The simplest and most fun way to present synonyms and common confusions. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.  Seeing some of my old worksheets as I polish up the index pages, I’ve noticed a general … Continue reading →

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CMU and Unitefl – The greatest TEFL soap opera?

Posted on 14/10/2012 by alexcase

Now that Unitefl have made a few changes (some at my suggestion) to their course and (especially) website, I’ve rewritten my “Do not study with Unitefl Thailand” post as “A History of Chiang Mai University and Unitefl” – and quite a … Continue reading →

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IELTS Writing and trends pages sorted

Posted on 14/10/2012 by alexcase

I’m doing all my best pages first, so please ignore these posts in a couple of weeks when I start scraping the barrel. In the meantime, I highly recommend these two: IELTS Writing games/ worksheets Language of trends communicationg games/ … Continue reading →

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Two reactions against English in primary schools

Posted on 13/10/2012 by alexcase

Indonesia scrapping primary school English lessons and Quebec toning them down.  

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Telephoning vocabulary and phrases – 29 worksheets now all together

Posted on 13/10/2012 by alexcase

37 if you include the teleconference and telephone interview ones that the page links to. It’s a bit of a bugbear of mine that books don’t spend enough time on this and emailing, so I’ve been trying to make up for it … Continue reading →

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