Author Archives: alexcase

New household vocabulary page

Posted on 30/07/2020 by alexcase

I’m planning to write an article or two on the topic, but so far already have 16 PDFs on rooms and furniture vocabulary, plus links to five related picture books, four related songs, my architecture page, my (newly tidied up) … Continue reading →

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New ideas for coronavirus changes for EFL classes

Posted on 28/07/2020 by alexcase

Perhaps to justify teaching face to face when the infection numbers are as high as during lockdown, my schools have introduced and proposed some additional measures that you and your schools could also consider. They are also looking for more … Continue reading →

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New articles on telephoning page

Posted on 27/07/2020 by alexcase

With 10 articles on telephoning and teaching telephoning already up and about 10 more to add soon, thought it was worth tidying up my telephone English worksheets page by moving the articles to a page of their own: Telephone English … Continue reading →

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New Teaching Telephoning e-book out now!

Posted on 21/07/2020 by alexcase

While the rest of you were taking up new hobbies and having Zoom parties (?), I used my lockdown to finally keep my promise to those who were kind enough to buy a copy of my one of my previous … Continue reading →

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New TEFL PDFs and articles 2020 Q2

Posted on 28/06/2020 by alexcase

Loads on my new favourite topics reporting verbs, verb patterns and subject questions, but also business communication reviews, social English, tenses, inversion, there is/ are, crime vocabulary, clothes vocabulary, animal vocabulary, academic writing (specifically the neglected topic of writing academic … Continue reading →

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Linking learner training and specific language points

Posted on 21/06/2020 by alexcase

I was wondering recently why my learner training page isn’t more popular, because what could be better than getting students to discuss how to learn a language while also practising the language point of the day? Then when I actually … Continue reading →

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Social distancing variations on TEFLtastic classics

Posted on 08/06/2020 by alexcase

I was planning to do a whole blog post or article on how to play classic TEFL games online and/ or with maximum distancing in the classroom. However, with 42 activities to both work out how to use in my … Continue reading →

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Teaching Social English Second Edition out now!

Posted on 01/06/2020 by alexcase

Before using my lockdown time to finish off some new books, I thought I’d fix some typos, add some newer worksheets and fix the so-called “invitations roleplays” that turned out to be nothing of the sort in my first book … Continue reading →

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New index pages April and May 2020

Posted on 12/05/2020 by alexcase

Some of these are quite small at the moment, but I’m presently writing worksheets and articles for all those which are short at the moment, and will be updating them and/ or this list as often as I can: Starting … Continue reading →

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Teaching checking/ clarifying on and for Zoom

Posted on 10/05/2020 by alexcase

Even more than face to face, the classroom language most needed for online classes is definitely checking/ clarifying phrases like “Can you say that one more time (more slowly)?”, “Can you say that another way?”, “Did you say… (or…)?” and … Continue reading →

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