Author Archives: alexcase

A review of Lifestyle Pre-Intermediate by Vicki Hollett and Norman Whitby

Posted on 07/08/2012 by alexcase

A majorly edited version of this has just been published in Modern English Teacher magazine. If you think you can do better or just want some free books, here’s how to review for TEFL.net. Lifestyle is a new textbook series designed … Continue reading →

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Sports vocabulary is not useless!

Posted on 04/08/2012 by alexcase

Or at least so I seemed to have convinced a class who started sceptical about the topic of sport with a lesson made from these two worksheets on sports language outside sport: Sporting and general meanings Business idioms on the topic … Continue reading →

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A nice fun personalised speaking activity for Past Continuous

Posted on 28/07/2012 by alexcase

As I’ve written before, when I do use a PPP methodology I tend to present the grammar near the end of the lesson, let them get their heads round it for homework, and then do the speaking practice in the … Continue reading →

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Mute English

Posted on 26/07/2012 by alexcase

Have just come across this Chinglish term for being able to understand English but not produce it orally, according to Wikipedia translated from the Chinese expression ya ba ying yu, and simply liked this compound noun so much that I wanted to spread the … Continue reading →

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CUP CEO predicts more competition between schools and publishers

Posted on 26/07/2012 by alexcase

He also thinks the transition to digital in ELT classrooms will be gradual and that the teaching of Chinese will have to develop separately to that of ELT: CEO of Cambridge University Press at the London Book Fair Links to … Continue reading →

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How easy is working in a Japanese "Eikaiwa" conversation school

Posted on 23/07/2012 by alexcase

A rare good thread on GaijinPot on the topic here.

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Want to do a TEFL course entirely on your mobile phone?

Posted on 20/07/2012 by alexcase

Didn’t think so… but now you can! All thanks to a horribly hard-sell website set up by the University of Toronto and some recruitment agency called TeachAway.

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My main source of TEFL news

Posted on 19/07/2012 by alexcase

Back when I still had a vague thought of being a proper journalist rather than just a blogger (before I managed to get something published in EL Gazette and so found out how much work it really is), I set up a … Continue reading →

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Action for ESOL

Posted on 17/07/2012 by alexcase

I’ve never really had any involvement with the ESOL* world in the UK, but it was the topic of one of the best ever guest posts that I’ve published here. It also looks like that side of learning English is … Continue reading →

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EL Gazette archives free to view and fully searchable

Posted on 16/07/2012 by alexcase

I’ve been enjoying the amazing ability to view the whole of EL Gazette online for free every month for at least a couple of years now. (Don’t ask how they can possibly make money from making it free, they might … Continue reading →

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